The 2007 Willow Awards
Snow Willow Nominee
Megiddo's Shadow
Edward Bathe, a 16-year-old prairie farm boy, giddy with the romantic ideals of war and desperate to fight the Huns in France, enlists in 1917. To his disappointment, he is assigned to a horse-training regiment, where the only consolation is Buke, his horse, and Emily, the pretty young nurse he befriends. When he is sent to fight the Turks in Palestine, Edward learns that what he thought he knew about right and wrong, about heroism and courage, and about God and country, no longer holds true.
About the Author
Arthur Slade is from Saskatoon, SK
Arthur Slade is the author of Dust, a national bestseller and the winner of the 2001 Governor General’s Award for children’s fiction, the Mr. Christie’s Book Award and the Saskatchewan Book Award. His novel Tribes was a CLA Young Adult Honour Book and was nominated for five other literary prizes. He is also the author of Monsterology, the Canadian Chills series, and Northern Frights, a series of young adult novels based on Icelandic folktales. Return of the Grudstone Ghosts from the Canadian Chills series won the 2003 Diamond Willow Award. Arthur Slade and his wife and daughter live in Saskatoon.
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Suggested Activities
- Create a timeline of Edward's experiences in the book.
- Show the effects that going to war had on Edward. Fold a paper in quarters. In each quadrant place one of the following: basic needs (food, clothing, shelter), family life, friendships and future. Use words or illustrations to show the effects of war on Edward.
- Write a newspaper article about a current event that would have happened during the time of Megiddo's Shadow. Include the 5W's and How.
- Think about some of the vivid scenes in this novel. Choose one and reread that section. Close you eyes and imagine that you are right there in the scene. What do you see, hear, smell, taste and feel? Share your sensory perceptions on a graphic organizer. (Perhaps five columns across a page)
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