AustLit

'Transported: Tales of Misfortune and Roguery is an illustrated series of fictional stories created in rhyme. Harrison-Lever suggests that written with a simple rhythm, like folk song lyrics, the fictional people they briefly bring to life, may prompt the reader’s imagination to travel a little beyond the numerical data of dry historical records.' (Publication Summary)

'The door of the boatshed creaked slowly open and a young boy peered inside. His face lit up in wonder as he looked around.When Tom Stevenson meets the Captain he enters and extraordinary world of blisters and barnacles, pirates and gun-runners, shipwrecks and sea creatures. Working side by side to slowly restore an old steam boat, their friendship grows and strengthens.' (Publication summary)

'Early on Christmas morning the guns stop firing. A deathly silence creeps over the pitted and ruined landscape. A young soldier peers through a periscope over the top of the trench. Way out in no-man's-land, he sees a small red shape moving on the barbed wire. A brightly coloured robin is trapped. One wing is flapping helplessly.

'An eloquent counterpoint to the senselessness and inhumanity of war, In Flanders Fields tells the story of a young homesick World War I soldier, who risks his life to cross the no-man's land and rescue a robin caught in the barbed wire that separates the opposing forces, dug into their trenches. This moving picture book is a plea for compassion.'

Source: Penguin Books.