VE Day & VJ Day

80th anniversaries of VE Day Thursday 8 May 2025 and VJ Day Friday 15 August 2025
Join in the many ways to mark the occasion both nationally and locally more here ve-vjday80.gov.uk/

And you can mark them at home and in the classroom using my books:

After the War – VE Day
War Dog – VJ Day

And these special resources …

My book – After the War – features scenes set on VE Day, 8^th May 1945. In England where communities celebrate the defeat of the Nazis and in Czechoslovakia where Jewish children are liberated from camps and ghettos by the Russians.

I have created new VE Day resources that families, schools and libraries can use.

VE Day paper dolls. Work as a family to decorate paper dolls of the children of VE Day. Then put it up as bunting to help mark the 80^th anniversary of their liberation here.

VE Day Reading Quiz

Read the section of the book where the children talk about their very different experiences of VE Day, then answer some questions here

VE Day Black Out poetry. Create your own black out poetry using a VE Day scene from After the War here

You can find all the resources above and read more about After the War and the research I did to find out about what happened to children in England and on the continent on and after VE Day by visiting www.tompalmer.co.uk/after-the-war.

War Dog – VJ Day

War Dog is my first non-fiction picture book.

The true story of one dog’s incredible bravery in WWII Judy is a dog who lives on a ship called HMS Grasshopper. Set in the Second World War in the South–East Asian theatre of the Pacific War. After the fall of Singapore Judy and her crew become prisoners of war.

Accompanying VJ Day resources to come.

More here

Buy Books

Signed and dedicated copies of all my books are available personalised to order from my local independent children’s bookshop “The Thoughtful Spot” here.