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This special edition includes stories from real-life evacuees, uncovered from the Imperial War Museums.
When Lenny’s father goes to fight in the Second World War he gives his son a brass badge with two animals engraved on it: a lion for bravery and a unicorn for courage.
Then, Lenny himself must go away, evacuated from his home and family to escape the bombing. Staying in a strange new place, Lenny gathers all his lion bravery, all his unicorn courage, and discovers that magic can happen, even in the most desperate of times.
When Lenny’s father goes to fight in the Second World War he gives his son a brass badge with two animals engraved on it: a lion for bravery and a unicorn for courage.
Then, Lenny himself must go away, evacuated from his home and family to escape the bombing. Staying in a strange new place, Lenny gathers all his lion bravery, all his unicorn courage, and discovers that magic can happen, even in the most desperate of times.
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Lenny Levi is evacuated to the country during the second world war. Both his Mum and his Dad, away fighting in France, tell him he has to be brave. Being brave is very hard when you're all alone and being picked upon at school. All Lenny has to comfort himself with is his father's badge with a lion and a unicorn fighting each other on it. When he finds a secret garden with a unicorn statue in it Lenny, at last finds somewhere he feels comfortable. It is here that Lenny meets a young man, wounded in the war, who tells him about different kinds of courage and whose wise words help him to realise that he is strong enough to face up to anything he has to. Shirley Hughes' minutely observed, beautifully executed illustrations conjure up a world that is full of charm and activity; she is able to evoke a whole mood through the turn of a head or the clasp of a hand. Ideal for anyone who has ever felt homesick or alone, this book also reflects what it was like to live through the traumas of the second world war. --Philippa Reece
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"No one can match Shirley Hughes in the simple mastery of both words and pictures" (Times Educational Supplement)
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- Publication date2000
- ISBN 10 0099256088
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