Variations of the Hero's Journey in Contemporary British, French and Australian Picture Books about the Great War

This book is grounded in the belief that every nation had its own ‘Great War’, and that children’s picture books are an important barometer of each country’s national approach. To explore the depiction of the Great War in Australian, British, and French modern children’s picture books, where this historical event is reimagined in different ways as a futile conflict, a painful victory, and as part of one country's founding mythology, this book uses the concept of the hero's journey as underlying