Scarecrow Army

As part of a World War I campaign, thousands of Australians and New Zealanders landed at an unnamed cove on the Gallipoli Peninsula. They had come to fight the Turks. They thought the battle would be over in three days. Months later they were still in the trenches they dug at the landing. Scarecrow Army: The Anzacs at Gallipoli is an engaging non-fiction book for young adult readers by award-winning New Zealand author Leon Davidson. Part of the history series The Drum, in 2006 it won both the Children's Book Council of Australia (CBCA) Eve Pownall Award for Information Books and the Non-Fiction category of the New Zealand Post Children's Book Awards.