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4.33 AVERAGE
4.33 AVERAGE
This is not a review! I can't start a new book because I'm studying for exams, so I went for an old favourite from my childhood.
It was still good to read, but this time I really noticed the absence of aboriginal people. I think it is typical of 20th century Australian books, and not just ones for children, that aborigines are there to greet the settlers, guide the explorers, and then quietly and tactfully fade out. Not that I expect a children's book, about growing up in the fringes of cleared land during the Depression, to explain massacre or forced displacement! I'm just conscious now of the artificiality of their absence from the story.
(Ref [b:Why Weren't We Told?|1272323|Why Weren't We Told?|Henry Reynolds|http://photo.goodreads.com/books/1182412474s/1272323.jpg|1261274])
It was still good to read, but this time I really noticed the absence of aboriginal people. I think it is typical of 20th century Australian books, and not just ones for children, that aborigines are there to greet the settlers, guide the explorers, and then quietly and tactfully fade out. Not that I expect a children's book, about growing up in the fringes of cleared land during the Depression, to explain massacre or forced displacement! I'm just conscious now of the artificiality of their absence from the story.
(Ref [b:Why Weren't We Told?|1272323|Why Weren't We Told?|Henry Reynolds|http://photo.goodreads.com/books/1182412474s/1272323.jpg|1261274])
This story is set in my hometown and mentions many places in the region which are familiar to me. So obviously I loved it. Thanks to my dear choir friend for lending me her copy!