![]() ![]() ![]() The Sky is Falling (1989) begins in August 1940, when ten-year old Norah Stokes is having the best summer of her life. I had been a bit scared to try them again as an adult – how could they possibly live up to my memories? – but am thrilled to report that I love them now just as much if not more than I did as I child. I cried over them, I sighed over them, and I came away from them with a fascination for wartime social history which, as you well know, has stuck with me through the years. I can’t remember if I got the books from the school library or the public library, or even if I purchased them for myself (my parents’ book-buying ban having already been in place by then), but I do know that over the next four years I read them over and over again, absorbing every detail about the lives of Norah and Gavin Stokes, two English children evacuated to Canada during the Second World War. ![]() I think I was eight when I first read The Guests of War Trilogy by Kit Pearson. British “war guests” arriving in Montreal, 7 July 1940 ![]()
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