I’m happy to announce the forthcoming publication of my next book, which is non-fiction, an exploration of children’s middle-grade and teen adventure stories published during World War II about that war. It’s called (cue trumpet):
Children’s Wartime Adventure Novels
The Silent Generation’s
Vicarious Experience
of World War II
The book revisits some kids’ books you may even remember from your own childhoods—from the Cherry Ames series to the Dave Dawson series, Ann Barlett, Meet the Malones, and a host of other stories that brought the war home to the kids too young to fight it but who nevertheless were acutely aware of its tragedies, triumphs, anxieties, and grim realities. The books were published not merely to entertain—indeed, some of the violence is astounding—but to educate the kids on what the war was ideologically about and to indoctrinate them to the kind of patriotic and self-sacrificing citizens they should try to be. Moreover, there was a burst of feminist inspiration as women not only desired to help the war effort but were actually needed to win the war.
The stories are a real-time view of not only the battle zones but also what was happening on the home front.
Most of these books are no longer in print—but some old copies are quite valuable to collectors. Some of them remained in print to entertain the Boomers—Cherry Ames is notable for inspiring more than one generation to enter the field of nursing.
In the weeks ahead I’ll be unveiling the cover.
This book will be available in eBook, paperback print, and also in hardcover. I expect publication to be in late August.
If any blogger, or reviewer would like an ARC (advance reader copy) in PDF, either drop a comment below with your email, name of your blog, website, or where you plan to post the review, or email me at JacquelineTLynch@gmail.com. Thank you!
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