The book is set in 1946, just after the second WORLD WAR


rationing   Enjoy this Audio slide show on  the BBC
Sweets were also rationed!

so, children ate carrots on sticks instead of iced lollies...
ACTIVITY

learn more about the hardship of the time by doing this small quiz.

Waste not Want not!




an exhibition at the Museum of Brands , Packaging and Advertising
"recycling" The Blitz 
"London's piles of rubbles that were once buildings"
Juliet to Sidney , letter 7 page 11

see pictures of London during the Blitz
in the summer and autumn of 1940
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