Armistice Runner (Conkers)

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Armistice Runner (Conkers)

Armistice Runner (Conkers)

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I’ve been using the World Cup to help promote literacy since 2006 (see here) with spin offs like the Rugby World Cup, Euros, with Dutch Diaries for the 2017 Women’s Football European Championships. Thanks to all the pupils and teachers for your amazing support! I learned a lot more about how hard the conditions were in the trenches and I didn’t know they sent runners for messages, I always thought they sent carrier pigeons! This is a thoughtful book and ideal for introducing children to the history of the First World War and would be an excellent prompt for discussion on a wide range of topics including dementia, loyalty and forgiveness.” Alibrarylady.blog I really enjoyed this book by Tom Palmer. I found it very enjoyable and I learnt many interesting facts about life in World War One. My favourite character was Ernest, I found his thoughts and emotions very interesting and how people coped when losing loved ones. I’m not sure that there was anyone I didn’t particularly like but in the way the author has written the book I feel like a shadow has been cast over Abbie’s Dad (Abbie is a rival fell runner to Lily), he is made to be a bad person, therefore meaning that he is the ‘villain’ of the story. Brief outline of story: A person called Lily is competing in running races and struggling. She discovers her great-great-grandfather’s diaries of WW1.

I found the grandad and the Captain the most interesting because their stories aren’t the normal ones you read about. The Grandad went to avenge Fred which I found quite nice and showed he valued his friends. Draw a landscape to colour in for the Armistice Runner characters here: Lily (running today) and Ernest (a trench runner in the First World War) here.

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I have written a sixteen chapter story for the National Literacy Trust to tie in with this June’s centenary of the Battle of the Somme. It was set during the Euro 2016 football tournament and the main characters were school pupils on a battlefield tour and First World War soldiers. The best time I remember from my primary school was when our teacher read the Foul Play World Cup Mystery out to us. I’ll never forget us all listening together every morning and worrying about what would happen to Danny if England won!” Kylie The story is based very loosely on our family’s love of cross country and fell running and the champion fell runner of 100 y ears ago, Ernest Dalzell: @grasmereschool Ernest Dalzell I enjoyed this book as I was intrigued the whole time and it gripped my attention by using the great-grandfather’s and daughters past to join them together. The book is a fantastic read as the emotional attachment to the characters adds up. Along with this, there is the action of them both running.

Please feel free to use these images for mapping your pupils ideas about the story, see this example Who are the main characters? Lily, Lily’s grandmother (who had Alzheimer’s), Ernest (Lily’s great-great-grandfather.To help you celebrate World Book Day, I’ve recorded a free virtual film for assembly/class for schools to show on the day. Filmed from Anne Frank’s Haus, Amsterdam, I’ll be sharing why her diary is one of my all-time favourite books. Watch below or in YouTube… Powerfully poignant … not to be missed. If there is one WWI story you read this year, let it be this one!” SCOTT EVANS, THE READER TEACHER At the start it is a bit hard to get into but it is really thought-provoking and you feel what’s going on. Tom Palmer doesn’t usually make me cry … But this one, Armistice Runner, was something else. Even if you’ve read countless other WWI stories … this has something that belongs only to this book. It’s very good and sad. But also inspiring” BOOKWITCH, BLOG

During an emotional visit to her gran’s house, Lily manages to connect with her gran over her interest in running and is pleasantly surprised to receive a box of running logs that once beloved to her great-great-grandfather, Ernest. Among the papers Lily discovers detailed diaries from Ernest’s time as a soldier in the First World War.Armistice Runner is about Lily’s passion for fell-running, which requires resilience and commitment, and her growing awareness of her grandmother’s deterioration due to dementia. Alzheimer’s is not an easy topic for children’s literature, yet the author sketches the close relationship between Lily and her grandmother with clarity. The feistiness of Gran and her lucid moments make sure she is not a token peripheral character but central to the story. Lily’s great-great-grandfather’s wartime diaries provide a crucial link that brings past and present together through the act of remembering. a Football Academy book – borrow one from your local library or print a picture of the cover off here Commissioned by the British Council and Reading Agency’s ‘Chatterbooks’ project. With classroom resources. Read and listen to the story here. an engaging, exciting and emotionally intense one that will appeal to anyone who enjoys reading about family relationships and how we’re all tied to the history of our ancestors” letterpress project

The detailed descriptions of the Cumbrian landscape ground the story and give it continuity and gravitas. The contrasting view from the trenches is constantly in the reader’s mind. Of the French countryside, Ernest writes in his diary ‘ It’s tame, no wilderness. Except for the bullets and shells, tanks and aeroplanes.’ Detailed descriptions of the landscape are central to the story, and I was reminded of Gill Lewis’s Sky Hawk, which uses the landscape of the North-west to equally powerful effect. Armistice Runner is a wonderful story to use in the classroom to explore the history of World War 1. The narrative is compelling and perfectly pitched to bring the big themes of war to young readers without being either too frightening or too reductive. By linking the historical aspect of the story to a modern day character in a familiar setting and emphasising the relatable, human aspects of one soldier’s experiences, Tom has skilfully crafted a way for young readers to connect with an event that could too easily seem a world away from them.” BOOK FOR TOPICS Armistice Runner display at Eldon Grove Academy – Fantastic work! It was quite moving in the end when her grandad encountered the French (no spoilers!!) and it’s really nice when Lily helps her gran remember (she is suffering from Alzheimer’s). I really enjoyed how the book was written in a diary from Ernst and Lilly’s thoughts about the world as she was a very relatable protagonist. Navy –sailors like Frank, Joseph and Stephen from Arctic Star who served on HMS Belfast in the Second World War. Kit ideas :

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Tom Palmer’s new book – Armistice Runner – is about a modern day runner who finds out from her grandmother, who is suffering from dementia, that her great-great-grandad was a trench runner during the last few days of the First World War. In different views of the characters there is a mix of excitement, sadness, and thought provoking times. These feelings are felt from different characters in the story. BBC have collected some of their sport in wartime footage here. 1914 Footage of the Footballers’ Battalion World War One remains a subject of fascination for readers of all ages, but Tom Palmer finds an original way in to the topic in this poignant new story … Today and yesterday are seamlessly woven together in a story that will move readers in lots of different ways” ANDREA REECE, Knowing that many cross-country and fell runners went to fight in the First World War, the story started there.



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