World War 2
We have 2 war ‘nuts’ in the family so far, James and his dad. I think we may have another one soon enough. Marcus caught the end of ‘Kelly’s Heroes’ on Saturday and loved it so on Sunday James’ dad brought out a video of it and they watched it all. He likes the tanks, the guns, the aeroplanes and weaponry, pretty much like his dad and grandpa then 
So this morning, after a late start, he brought down a book that’s been on our shelves for a while. It’s called War Boy and is the childhood story of the illustrator Michael Foreman. It’s a long book so we’ll have to read it in a few sittings, but the pictures are fab and I don’t think I’ve ever had M interested in a book like he was today. He loves stories, being read to but today he was on my knee the whole time lol! It’s set in Lowestoft so he was excited to see it in a place he knew of. We looked at how close that was to Holland on the map too so some geography crept in
I was wondering if I should try to do some sort of more in depth study of it all with him, then realised how much we’ve actually done in the last year. We visited Eden camp last October which we all really enjoyed, I wonder if we could do another trip there one day, I really enjoyed it. We’ve visited the Imperial War Museum and the Royal Armouries and we’ve also had a couple of visits to the Aeroplane museum in Doncaster which has lots of WW2 planes and exhibits. We’ve read a couple of books about WW2 - twenty and Ten and also Make Do and Mend ( franklin Watts book - why do they do such fab books and then a year later they are out of print?? I only bought them last year). We have a couple of other books in that series which we’ve still to read too.
So add that to all the discussions that come up and it’s amazing what you get through when you don’t try eh?
Watching Tenko then? UKTV History 9pm starting tonight
Comment by Sarah, Dino and Mimi — October 1, 2007 @ 8:26 pm
Roald Dahl’s autobiography - hmmm, the second one perhaps - is mostly about him going off and flying planes in the war. I thought it was quite exciting!
Loads of WW2 memorabilia on eBay too, though perhaps not much weaponry
Comment by Alison — October 1, 2007 @ 10:32 pm
UKTV History are screening World At War at the mo.
Comment by Tim — October 4, 2007 @ 3:17 pm