Jim's Letters

By:   Glyn Harper
Illustrated by:   Jenny Cooper
Imprint:   Puffin
Country of Publication:   New Zealand
Dimensions:   Height: 294mm,  Width: 253mm,  Spine: 10mm
Weight:   520g
ISBN:   9780143505907
ISBN 10:   0143505904
Pages:   32
Publication Date:   26 March 2014
Recommended Age:   From 7 to 10 years
Audience:   Children/juvenile ,  English as a second language
Format:   Hardback
Publisher's Status:   Active

Glyn Harper is Professor of War Studies at Massey University in Palmerston North, New Zealand. He is Massey's Project Manager of the Centenary History of New Zealand and the First World War. A former teacher, he joined the Australian Army in 1988 and after eight years transferred to the New Zealand Army, where he rose to the rank of lieutenant colonel. Glyn was the army's official historian for the deployment to East Timor and is the author of numerous history books, including Kippenberger- An Inspired New Zealand Commander; In the Face of the Enemy- The complete history of the Victoria Cross and New Zealand; Dark Journey- Three Key Battles of the Western Front; Images of War- World War One- A Photographic Record of New Zealanders at War 1914-1918 and his most recent Letters from Gallipoli- New Zealand Soldiers Write Home. He has written a number of children's books, of which Le Quesnoy, Jim's Letters and Roly, the Anzac Donkey are the most recently published. In 2015 Glyn and illustrator Jenny Cooper won the Best Picture Book Award at the New Zealand Book Awards for Children and Young Adults, as well as a Storylines Notable Picture Book Award, for Jim's Letters, a moving story about a correspondence between two brothers during the First World War.

• Short-listed for LIANZA Children's Book Awards: Russell Clark Medal for Illustration 2015
• Shortlisted for LIANZA Children's Book Awards: Russell Clark Medal for Illustration 2015.
• Shortlisted for New Zealand Book Awards for Children and Young Adults: Picture Books 2015.
• Winner of New Zealand Book Awards for Children and Young Adults: Picture Books 2015
• Winner of New Zealand Book Awards for Children and Young Adults: Picture Books 2015.