Cher Ami: WWI Homing Pigeon

Cher Ami: WWI Homing Pigeon
Author: Joeming Dunn
Publisher: ABDO
Total Pages: 34
Release: 2011-09-01
Genre: Juvenile Nonfiction
ISBN: 1616417080

Animals have been an influential part of science, technology, and travel throughout time. Cher Ami: WWI Homing Pigeon introduces readers to the historical climate of the 1900s and World War I, background on Cher Ami, a chronology of Cher Ami's mission, and how that mission influenced history. Colorful graphic art, maps, history on homing pigeons, fast facts, and a glossary will bring the historic mission to a younger audience. A great supplement to your history graphic novel collection.

Fly, Cher Ami, Fly!

Fly, Cher Ami, Fly!
Author: Robert Burleigh
Publisher: Harry N. Abrams
Total Pages: 0
Release: 2008-09-01
Genre: Juvenile Nonfiction
ISBN: 9780810970977

Cher Ami was one of six hundred carrier pigeons used by the American Army during World War I. Cher Ami was a hero who, against all odds, helped rescue a lost battalion of soldiers.

Cher Ami and Major Whittlesey

Cher Ami and Major Whittlesey
Author: Kathleen Rooney
Publisher: Penguin
Total Pages: 338
Release: 2020-08-11
Genre: Fiction
ISBN: 0525507825

"Both heartbreaking and sharply funny...Cher Ami and Major Whittlesey is brilliant and surprising at every turn."--Rebecca Makkai, Pulitzer finalist for The Great Believers A heart-tugging and gorgeously written novel based on the incredible true story of a WWI messenger pigeon and the soldiers whose lives she forever altered, from the author of Lillian Boxfish Takes a Walk. From the green countryside of England and the gray canyons of Wall Street come two unlikely heroes: one a pigeon and the other a soldier. Answering the call to serve in the war to end all wars, neither Cher Ami, the messenger bird, nor Charles Whittlesey, the Army officer, can anticipate how their lives will briefly intersect in a chaotic battle in the forests of France, where their wills will be tested, their fates will be shaped, and their lives will emerge forever altered. A saga of hope and duty, love and endurance, as well as the claustrophobia of fame, Cher Ami and Major Whittlesey is a tragic yet life-affirming war story that the world has never heard. Inspired by true events of World War I, Kathleen Rooney resurrects two long-forgotten yet unforgettable figures, recounting their tale in a pair of voices that will change the way that readers look at animals, freedom, and even history itself.

Cher Ami

Cher Ami
Author: Mélisande Potter
Publisher: Christy Ottaviano Books-Henry Holt
Total Pages: 40
Release: 2022
Genre: Cher Ami (Pigeon)
ISBN: 9780316335348

"A nonfiction picture book about the unforgettable Cher Ami, a heroic animal who changed WWI history forever"--

Signal Pigeon Company

Signal Pigeon Company
Author: United States. War Department
Publisher:
Total Pages: 86
Release: 1944
Genre: Command and control systems
ISBN:

Winnie's Great War

Winnie's Great War
Author: Lindsay Mattick
Publisher: Hachette+ORM
Total Pages: 170
Release: 2017-02-07
Genre: Juvenile Fiction
ISBN: 0316447102

From the creative team behind the bestselling, Caldecott Medal--winning Finding Winnie comes an extraordinary wartime adventure seen through the eyes of the world's most beloved bear. Here is a heartwarming imagining of the real journey undertaken by the extraordinary bear who inspired Winnie-the-Pooh. From her early days with her mama in the Canadian forest, to her remarkable travels with the Veterinary Corps across the country and overseas, and all the way to the London Zoo where she met Christopher Robin Milne and inspired the creation of the world's most famous bear, Winnie is on a great war adventure. This beautifully told story is a triumphant blending of deep research and magnificent imagination. Infused with Sophie Blackall's irresistible renderings of an endearing bear, the book is also woven through with entries from Captain Harry Colebourn's real wartime diaries and contains a selection of artifacts from the Colebourn Family Archives. The result is a one-of-a-kind exploration into the realities of war, the meaning of courage, and the indelible power of friendship, all told through the historic adventures of one extraordinary bear.

Poems from France

Poems from France
Author: Harry Webb Farrington
Publisher:
Total Pages: 72
Release: 1920
Genre: World War, 1914-1918
ISBN:

Home Front Girl

Home Front Girl
Author: Joan Wehlen Morrison
Publisher: Chicago Review Press
Total Pages: 263
Release: 2012-11
Genre: Juvenile Nonfiction
ISBN: 1613744609

Wednesday, December 10, 1941"Hitler speaks to Reichstag tomorrow. We just heard the first casualty lists over the radio. ... Lots of boys from Michigan and Illinois. Oh my God! ... Life goes on though. We read our books in the library and eat lunch, bridge, etc. Phy. Sci. and Calculus. Darn Descartes. Reading Walt Whitman now." This diary of a smart, astute, and funny teenager provides a fascinating record of what an everyday American girl felt and thought during the Depression and the lead-up to World War II. Young Chicagoan Joan Wehlen describes her daily life growing up in the city and

WildLives

WildLives
Author: Ben Lerwill
Publisher: Atheneum Books for Young Readers
Total Pages: 112
Release: 2020-02-04
Genre: Juvenile Nonfiction
ISBN: 1534454845

From the illustrator of Herstory (a Publishers Weekly Best Book of 2018) comes a fascinating and touching book about fifty extraordinary animals that made human history! Discover these amazing true tales of wild and wonderful lives—animal lives, that is! We often read heroic stories of brave people who made their mark on history. But did you know there are some pretty courageous creatures in our world, too? This captivating collection gathers fifty heartwarming, surprising, and powerful true stories of animals around the world who displayed immense bravery, aided in groundbreaking discoveries, and showed true friendship. Featuring a range of animals—from heroes to helpers, adventurers to achievers, and many more—young readers will discover some of the most unforgettable animals of all time. Compelling and gorgeously illustrated, WildLives is the perfect introduction to some of the amazing animals whose wild lives have made history.