As a child in England, Florence Nightingale's favorite game was playing hospital. First she played hospital with her dolls, then she nursed dogs and cats, lame donkeys and sick lambs! Soon she was nursing the village people as well.

Her family thought nursing was no occupation for a young lady. Indeed there were no real trained nurses in those days. But Florence became such a good nurse that the British government sent her to the Crimean War.

The wounded soldiers never forgot Florence's courage and kindness. And the world never forgot her either. Florence not only changed methods of wartime nursing, but later started the first school for trained nurses in London.

The popular author, Anne Colver, worked as a Red Cross Nurses Aid during World War II, so she has a special feeling for Florence Nightingale.

From the dust jacket