The Eels of Anzac Bridge
By (Author) Ali Foster
Illustrated by Viv Walker
Fraser Books
Fraser Books
1st March 2012
New Zealand
Children
Fiction
Childrens / Teenage social topics: War and conflict issues
Paperback
A delightfully told and illustrated story that interweaves the story of eels migrating across the ocean from a New Zealand river near an historic bridge commemorating the soldiers who lost their lives when they also travelled thousands of miles to fight in the Great War. The story is based loosely on the life of a young boy who grew up near the river and with the eels and then lost his life on the Western Front during the First World War.