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Bill is one of the founders of Boffins and has been involved in selecting the books we stock since our beginning in 1989. His favourite reading is history, with psychology, current affairs, and business books coming close behind. His hobbies are reading, food, reading, drinking, reading, and sleeping.
This is a delightful children’s picture book set in France at the end of World War 1. It’s based on a true story. It’s the story of Honore, a French orphan boy who, cold and hungry and lost, stumbled on the Australian Flying Corps base and met Tim Tovell, who took him into his care. Eventually, unable to trace Honore’s family, Tim adopts him and takes him home to Australia. It’s beautifully illustrated by Tull Suwannakit, and it also includes actual photographs of Honore and Tim – including one of Honore being squeezed into an old oat bag to be smuggled across the English channel. With Anzac Day coming up, this is a perfect gift for a young child, a warm story set in dark times, a story of kindness and hope.
