War+Memorials+and+Anzac+Day

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=__War Memorial, North Terrace, Adelaide__= (a history of the South Australian War Memoria from the Adelaidia website) =National War Memorial, Canberra, Australian Capital Territory=

Shell-shocked: Australia after Armistice:
When people wanted to remember and honour those who had fought and those who had died. From the Australian National Archives. Sydney : Lothian Children's Books, 2008. A little girl describes how she and her family observe Anzac Day. The focal point is the parade in which her grandfather is marching to remember all those soldiers in past wars. || || Will the Moreton Bay Fig, planted as a war memorial, be cut down? The debate triggers memories in this family about those among their three generations touched by the world wars and the Vietnam war. || ||
 * My grandad marches on Anzac Day / Catriona Hoy & Benjamin Johnson
 * Memorial/Crew, Gary. I llustrated by Shaun Tan, Vancouver, B.C. : Simply Read Books, 2004.
 * Lone pine / Susie Brown & Margaret Warner ; illustrated by Sebastian Ciaffaglione Richmond, Vic. : Little Hare, 2012. Trees propagated from seeds in a pine cone sent home by a soldier from Gallipoli after the Battle of Lone Pine form the link between that war and its effect on communities back in Australia. One is planted as a memorial in the town where the soldier grew up. One is planted at the Australian War Memorial in Canberra. As time moves on, the trees have their own destiny. This is based on a true story || [[image:http://bookshop.nla.gov.au/images/products/original/978/192/154/9781921541346.jpg width="146" height="180"]] ||
 * Anzac biscuits / [written by] Phil Cummings, [illustrated by] Owen Swan. Lindfield, N.S.W. : Scholastic Press, 2013. Rachel is in the kitchen, warm and safe. Her father is in the trenches, cold and afraid. When Rachel makes biscuits for her father, she adds the love, warmth and hope that he needs. Sentimental it may be, but the simple contrasts and connections made in this book could provoke some good discussions. || [[image:http://cdn-2.fishpond.com.au/0029/166/652/27229692/4.jpeg width="155" height="199" caption="Anzac Biscuits"]] ||  ||   ||   ||   ||   ||


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 * Angaston War Memorial ||  ||

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