Remembering John McCrae
Subtitle: soldier, doctor, poet
By: Linda Granfield
Publisher: Scholastic Canada
Published: 2009
Place of publication: Toronto
Language: eng
Number of pages: 38
ISBN-13: 9780439935616; 9780439935609
Subjects: World War (1914-1918) fast (OCoLC)fst01180746; Physicians; Ouvrages pour la jeunesse; World War, 1914-1918; Biographies; Poets, Canadian (English); Soldats; Guerre mondiale, 1914-1918; Poetes canadiens-anglais; Soldiers; Medecins; Juvenile literature; Biography
Description: A distinctive "scrapbook" style, more than one hundred photos, paintings, and documents are displayed to help paint an intimate portrait of a true hero. Readers will learn about his life as a doctor and teacher of medicine, about his tour of duty in the Boer War, and of course, about his service in WWI, where he experienced a loss so profound, it moved him to write "In Flanders Fields."
Notes: Includes bibliographical references (p. [38]) and index.