Post-WWII Society: Many Happy Returns of the Garden

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Post-WWII Society: Many Happy Returns of the Garden

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Remembering Victory Gardens: Visual Documents-Children's Literature

This collection analyzes the way that victory gardens are remembered in contemporary society via the medium of children's literature. Children's literature tends to celebrate the WWII victory garden and provides a positive viewpoint when reviving the memory.

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Welcome to Molly's World 1944: Growing up in World War Two America
Children's book containing primary sources about the World War II home front. Children's literature is one of the most prominent ways that the World War II victory garden is remembered in the post-World War II era. It provides a safe way for authors…

Meet Molly
Children's fiction about a young girl growing up on the home front during the Second World War. Children's literature is one of the most prominent ways that the World War II victory garden is remembered in the post-World War II era. It provides a…

World War II for Kids: A History with 21 Activities
Teaching World War II to kids. Children's literature is one of the most prominent ways that the World War II victory garden is remembered in the post-World War II era. It provides a safe way for authors to introduce children to the Second World War.…

Great World War II Projects: You Can Build Yourself
Teaching Children about World War II. Children's literature is one of the most prominent ways that the World War II victory garden is remembered in the post-World War II era. It provides a safe way for authors to introduce children to the Second…

Jennie's War: The Home Front in World War 2
Story about a girl named Jennie living during World War II. Grows a victory garden. Children's literature is one of the most prominent ways that the World War II victory garden is remembered in the post-World War II era. It provides a safe way for…

Lilly's Victory Garden
Children's picture book about a girl who tends a victory garden in her neighbor's yard because the wife is too sick to work in the garden. Children's literature is one of the most prominent ways that the World War II victory garden is remembered in…

The Victory Garden
A girl saves her neighbor's victory garden by getting her classmates to tend the garden. Children's literature is one of the most prominent ways that the World War II victory garden is remembered in the post-World War II era. It provides a safe way…

My Daddy Was a Soldier
A young girl's father goes to war and she copes with the stress of him being gone. Children's literature is one of the most prominent ways that the World War II victory garden is remembered in the post-World War II era. It provides a safe way for…
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