With Anzac Day approaching, here are links, trailers, worksheets and activities to help commemorate our veterans and war animals.
My YouTube channel has many clips, start here, book-trailers include Light Horse Boy and Lighthouse Girl, student’s trailers. Watch a Theatre 180 stage preview and song, and Destination WA Breaksea Island TV segment. You can see me reading The Last Light Horse high in the Snowy Mountains and hear reflective Covid Anzac Day thoughts at the Desert Mounted Corp Memorial. Or listen to a conversation about historical fiction with Elaine Forrestal.
Each book on my website has a dedicated page, with teaching activities, worksheets and story background information. Please also check out my blog. There are dozens of Anzac-linked posts. Try typing in book titles. For example, if you search In the Lamplight, you’ll find out about the wallaby and cockatoo living at Harefield Hospital during WWI. Or click the Anzac Category on blog sidebar to find Semaphore and Morse charts, interviews, Kokoda Track links to Photographs in the Mud, Purple Poppies, and the amazing 2015 The Giants street theatre event.
I hope these activities and links are helpful as we remember the courage and sacrifice of our veterans, their horses and animal mascots. Lest we forget.
Dianne Wolfer 
