Mick Mannings moving story invites children to discover one of Britain's most tragic and heroic wartime events. -- Best of British 20100601 An evocative and moving account of a young man's experience of the events of 1940. -- Books For Keeps 20100901

Mick Manning and Brita Granstrom are a creative team who work together on both text and illustration. Together they have produced many titles for Franklin Watts and won many awards, including the Silver Smarties prize for The World Is Full of Babies, the TES information book award for What's Under the Bed? and the English Association non-fiction award for Wash, Scrub, Brush! and Voices of the Rainforest. They live in the Scottish Borders.