Authors: Aubrey Flegg
Katie's War (18 page)
AUBREY FLEGG was born in Dublin and spent his early childhood in County Sligo. His later schooldays were spent in England, but he returned to Dublin to study geology. After a period of research in Kenya he joined the Geological Survey of Ireland; he is now retired. Aubrey lives in Dublin with his wife, Jennifer; they have two children and three grandchildren.
Katie's War
is his first book and it won the Peter Pan Award 2000 â an award created by IBbY Sweden for a children's book, translated into Swedish, which gives information on another culture. Aubrey's second book,
The Cinnamon
Tree
, deals with the issue of landmines and the international arms trade, and it was listed in the White Ravens selection for 2001.
Wings Over Delft
is the first book in the acclaimed
Louise
triology, followed by
The Rainbow Bridge
and
In the Claws of the Eagle. Wings Over Delft
won the Bisto Book of the Year Award 2004 and the Reading Association of Ireland Award 2005. It was listed in the White Ravens selection for 2004. Aubrey's books have been translated into German, Swedish, Danish, Serbian and Slovene
.
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First published 1997
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British Library Cataloguing-in-Publication Data
Katie's war: a story of the Irish Civil War
1. Ireland - history - Civil War, 1922â1923 -
juvenile fiction 2. children's stories
I. Title
823.9'14 [J]
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