This book will support children as they:
* Find out about wartime phrases and use them to write a dialogue
* Write a letter home from a P.O.W. camp
* Read wartime adverts and slogans and decide how effective they are
Part I: Source materials and activities, Evacuee children (I), Evacuee children (2), Evacuee children (3), Everyday life in wartime, The need for shelters, Wireless lessons, Civilian safety, News reports, Speak like an RAF Officer! Salvage, Rationing and the black market, Delicious dishes? Advertising in wartime, Careless talk costs lives, Make do and mend, Doctor Carrot and Potato Pete, The Squander Bug, Women at war, Wartime Christmas, Occupied Britain, The Welsh Great Escape, VE Day and VE Day celebrations, Part 2: Anthology, The day war broke out, Evacuation of children from the Channel Islands, The end of evacuation 1939-40, From an advert for wool, Salvage Song (or, The Housewife's Dream), Salvage rhymes, I've Finished My Black-out, (The Song of a Triumphant Housewife), Dig for Victory, A song sung by the Women's Land Army, (Land Girls), Women working in factories, War rhymes, Song of the pilots in the Second World War, Second World War memories, The Channel Islands: Guernsey, The Channel Islands: A letter to Father Christmas, The Channel Islands: Wartime recipes, Interview: Mrs Ivy Green, Ramsgate, Friend or Foe, One man's war, Notes on anthology selections
