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Shoes for Anthony
Shoes for Anthony | Emma Kennedy
5 posts | 1 read | 6 to read
From the author of bestselling The Tent, The Bucket and Me, now a BBC1 comedy series, THE KENNEDYS. As the youngest in a family of six, all eleven-year-old Anthony wants is a pair of shoes to call his own. Instead hes condemned to wear a pair of hand-me-down wellies that may or may not be haunted. When war comes to his small, impoverished mining village, life starts to get more exciting: there are American soldiers, his sister has joined the WAAF Mrs Reece even has a banana! But it is only when a foreign plane crashes into the Welsh hillside that Anthony and his gang discover what war is really about...
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melissajayne
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3⭐️ While I liked that the author took a risk in having the book from the point of view of a boy, I really think that it wasn‘t a great success. The story itself is interesting, but I think if she had written from the point of view of the character as an adult, it would have been more effective. #2021 #bookstagram #bookreview #fiction #historicalfiction #wwii #readingeurope #Wales🏴󠁧󠁢󠁷󠁬󠁳󠁿 #readingeurope2021 #bookspinbingo

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melissajayne
Shoes for Anthony | Emma Kennedy

In what universe does an editor allow an author 26 pages for its first chapter? A first chapter should be short and succinct, not 26 pages!!!

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Bookwormjillk
Shoes for Anthony | Emma Kennedy
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I like this book a lot- and it makes a good foot rest, apparently. #catsoflitsy

Mdargusch 😻what a cutie 7y
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Bookwormjillk
Shoes for Anthony | Emma Kennedy
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That feeling when you start a new book.

EvieBee Yes! Anticipation... 7y
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BethFishReads
Shoes for Anthony | Emma Kennedy
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A Welsh coal-mining family, especially 11-year-old Anthony, bonds with a Polish prisoner-of-war in 1944. But the fragile relationship is threatened by rumors of a German solider hiding in the nearby wilderness. Looks like a good one.

Nute I don't know why black and white photo book covers get me every time. 8y
BethFishReads @Nute If you take away my photo effect/edit the cover is still kind of sepia. 8y
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