The Tale of Walter the Pencil Man - Tapa blanda

Ian McMillan and Tony Husband have worked together for many years. Their latest collaboration tells a sombre story - in six-line rhyming stanzas - of a young lad from a Yorkshire pit village who finds himself caught up in the horrors of the First World War. Surrounded by terrible slaughter, Walter records the things he sees around him with only a pencil and some paper.

Ian McMillan is a freelance poet, writer, broadcaster and performer. He presents The Verb on BBC Radio 3 every Friday night and is currently presenting BBC2 s Coast. His many books include I Found this Shirt, Talking Myself Home, Dad, the Donkey s on Fire! and Ah ve Soiled Ma Breeks! Tony Husband is one of the UK s leading cartoonists. He draws The Yobs in Private Eye and has worked for The Times, The Oldie, The Spectator, Punch, The Nursing Standard and most other publications you might care to mention. In the 1980s, he co-devised and edited the popular children s comic Oink! and its TV spin-off, Round The Bend. Ian McMillan and Tony Husband have worked together for many years doing a live show A Cartoon History of Here and they have created several comedy books for The Dalesman including 101 Uses for a Yorkshire Pudding and Daft Yorkshire Fairy Tales.