Writer and historian Glyn Harper will be visiting Wanganui schools next week to talk about his book Jim's Letters for which he received a Storylines Notable Picture Book Award this year.
The professor of war studies at Massey University in Palmerston North has written two other illustrated children's books about Anzac soldiers' WWI experiences: Le Quesnoy and Roly, The Anzac Donkey, as well as a number of books for adults.
Glyn Harper's three adult books are illustrated by renowned New Zealand educational illustrator Jenny Cooper.
The author is also about to launch an adult book, Johnny Enzed that draws on the correspondence, diaries and oral histories of NZ soldiers during WWI.
Professor Harper was a teacher before serving in the Australian Army and is now Massey project manager of the Centenary History of New Zealand and the First World War.