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Ann Stalcup

On The Home Front: Growing Up in Wartime England Paperback – December 25, 2002

by Anne Stalcup (Author)

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For weeks the grownups at home and in the shops had been whispering together. I'd heard the word 'war' more and more often, but if I tried to ask questions, they changed the subject. Mum and Dad only said that they did not want to worry me. They told me I was too young to understand what was happening. They always seemed so serious now. War obviously that meant things would be a lot different.On Sunday, September 3, 1939, at 11:00 A.M., Britain declared war on Nazi Germany. At 11:27 A.M. the first air raid siren wailed across London. We heard its mournful, chilling sound over the wireless, which we listened to all that day. King George spoke to the nation on the wireless. His voice was trembling. At the end of the speech, he announced, 'We are at war.' Hearing these words gave me a funny feeling in my stomach. I was scared!

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118 pages
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English
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iUniverse
Publication date

December 25, 2002
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6 x 0.3 x 9 inches
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0595264077
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978-0595264070
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About the Author

Ann Stalcup was born and raised in England, and now resides in California, where she is retired from teaching third grade. She has written articles for Faces and Skipping Stones magazine. This account of her wartime childhood is her first book.

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Publisher ‏ : ‎ iUniverse (December 25, 2002)
Language ‏ : ‎ English
Paperback ‏ : ‎ 118 pages
ISBN-10 ‏ : ‎ 0595264077
ISBN-13 ‏ : ‎ 978-0595264070
Item Weight ‏ : ‎ 6.7 ounces
Dimensions ‏ : ‎ 6 x 0.3 x 9 inches

Best Sellers Rank: #3,827,052 in Books (See Top 100 in Books)
- #7,674 in Historical British Biographies
- #9,402 in England History
- #30,275 in Military Leader Biographies

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Thought Provoking

Reviewed in the United States on December 30, 2017

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This author visited my school and I wanted to be familiar with her books when she arrived. So I purchased 9 of her books for my classroom. This was quite a few years back, but all of my classes since that time continue to enjoy her books. I have also been able to use them in conjunction with my art program and also during literature and social studies units. This book was more for older elementary children, but I thoroughly enjoyed reading it myself. Thought provoking parallels with today's world.

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Royal

Short but entertaining.

Reviewed in the United States on April 4, 2005

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I wished this was longer and went into greater depth of the little things in life that changed during war time. There were some very interesting items, that unlesss you lived during those times you just wouldn't think about (driving without headlights at night, why street signs had to be taken down). It provides details of life at the time that only someone alive to live it could provide.

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Ann and Ed Stalcup

A Child's View of Wartime England

Reviewed in the United States on May 5, 2003

Stalcup shares her memoir of growing up in the town of Lydney, England, during World War 11. Ann stays with her parents and experiences war as it comes to her community with evacuees, German prisoners, Australian food packages, and American soldiers. Short, succinct chapters, enhanced by personal and archival photographs, make this a book to be savored as a read aloud or when read independently. Stalcup imparts the flavors of every day English life such as four o'clock tea, sweets, walks in the country, and the pleasures of a front garden, and how they are changed by a world at war. She retells moments of her life, from the age of three in 1938 with her first gas mask to V.E. Day in 1945. This factual memoir complements historical fiction titles such as Pearson's The Sky is Falling, Bawden's Carrie's War, Heneghan's Wish Me Luck, and Garrigue's All the Children Were Sent Away. Stalcup takes the reader's heart and mind into various events sharing humor, fear, courage, and community spirit. Thoroughly researched facts in combination with thoughtfully remembered experiences, make this compelling account a great starting point for curriculum dealing with war and a welcome addition to children's and youth's nonfiction collections. This first book of Stalcup's shows the beginning of a new children's writer with great potential.

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Ann and Ed Stalcup

An author reads us her book.

Reviewed in the United States on May 18, 2003

As I listened to Mrs. Stalcup's book, "On the Home Front," I was sucked into a world of Spitfires, Hurricane Bombers, and the Little Ships bringing soldiers from Dunkirk to Dover. Tears were shed when soldiers were lost in battle, and there was rejoicing when a major battle was won. I saw blood, I saw tears, and I saw glory.
It was quite an experience for my classmates and me. We had an author reading her book. Sometimes she would choose a student to read certain chapters because they were so emotional for her, such as the Little Ships and the Spitfire Funds.
It was an amazing book about a young girl who was living during World War Two. But the most amazing paart about it was who was reading it - the little girl from the book!!!!!

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S. Decker

A Fascinating, Well-Crafted Memoir For Adults and Children Alike

Reviewed in the United States on May 11, 2010

This memoir shares one woman's experience of what it was like to grow up as a child in England during the Second World War. The book has received several literary honors, is used in classrooms and can be appreciated equally by both children and adults. Stalcup has a simple, beautiful way with words. Her stories are both enlightening and fully engaging. These are not the brooding, heavy experiences of war. Instead, they are a glimpse of what it was like to be a normal child living as normal a life as possible at this time. I couldn't put the book down. And when I had finished it, I felt I'd gained a new perspective on one of the most monumental events in modern history.

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Long on fantasy, short on facts

Reviewed in the United States on December 29, 1998

As Juvenile Literature, I suppose the book isn't bad in terms of its approach; as any sort of history, however, even for the American market, it falls well short because it's riddled with errors of fact and perception. This, despite the uncredited, but apparently heavy, reliance on Angus Calder's "The People's War" (Cape, 1969). It's no defence to claim "this is what I remembered" if the book purports to be a picture of "Growing Up in Wartime England." A better sub-title would have been "the middle-aged memoirs of a sheltered little girl." Stalcup is 20 days older than me and what I remember of WW2 in Britain is somewhat different.

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Steve Ferguson

Fascinating Memoir of A Memorable Period!

Reviewed in the United States on March 11, 2010

Mrs Stalcup, I just wanted to tell you how much I enjoyed reading "On the Home Front." My wife got it in the mail a few days ago and I pounced on it and read it that evening. The subject is one in which I am very much interested and I found your book extremely informative, well-written and the most interesting I have ever read on the subject. Thank you!

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