August the fourth
By: Penelope Farmer ; illustrated by Jael Jordan
Contributors: Jordan, Jael, illustrator; Parnassus Press
Publisher: Parnassus Press
Published: 1975
Place of publication: Berkeley, Calif
Language: eng
Number of pages: 45
ISBN-13: 9780874660708; 9780874660715
Subjects: World War (1914-1918) fast (OCoLC)fst01180746; World War, 1914-1918; Juvenile fiction
Description: On August the fourth 1914, the day that England declares war on Germany, four children in the sleepy village of Wiltshire go on a picnic and do something worse than they have ever done before. But their parents do not react as they expected, as the threat of war hangs over that hot summer day and everything has changed.