The Tale of Walter the Pencil Man Richard McKane

The Tale of Walter the Pencil Man Richard McKaneIan McMillan and Tony Husband have worked together for many years, most recently on the comedy book Daft Yorkshire Fairy Tales (Dalesman, 2012; ISBN 9781855683105). Their latest collaboration tells the more sombre story in six line rhyming stanzas of a young lad from a Yorkshire pit village who finds himself caught up in the horrors of the First World War. Surrounded by terrible slaughter, Walter records the things he sees around him with only a

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