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y separately published work icon Snowy : The Diary of Eva Fischer, Cabramurra, 1958-1959 single work   children's fiction   children's   historical fiction  
Issue Details: First known date: 2003... 2003 Snowy : The Diary of Eva Fischer, Cabramurra, 1958-1959
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'Eva Fischer has moved to the top of the world - Cabramurra, the highest town in Australia. Eva feels on top of the world too. Surrounded by people of every nationality, Eva makes new friends and tries foreign food - such as pizza. Eva also learns to ski and ride, and even learns that being half German maybe isn't so bad after all.

'Meanwhile, all around her, momentous things are happening. The Snowy Mountains Scheme is under way, huge dams have been built, tunnels constructed, homes abandoned, people lost . . .

'This is rollicking tale about life amongst post-war migrants working on the scheme, and culminating in a near-disastrous encounter with Prime Minister Menzies.' (Publication summary)

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y separately published work icon Re-Visiting Historical Fiction for Young Readers : The Past through Modern Eyes Kim Wilson , New York (City) : Routledge Taylor & Francis Group , 2011 Z1886683 2011 single work criticism 'This study is concerned with how readers are positioned to interpret the past in historical fiction for children and young adults. Looking at literature published within the last thirty to forty years, Wilson identifies and explores a prevalent trend for re-visioning and rewriting the past according to modern social and political ideological assumptions. Fiction within this genre, while concerned with the past at the level of content, is additionally concerned with present views of that historical past because of the future to which it is moving. Specific areas of discussion include the identification of a new sub-genre: Living history fiction, stories of Joan of Arc, historical fiction featuring agentic females, the very popular Scholastic Press historical journal series, fictions of war, and historical fiction featuring multicultural discourses.

Wilson observes specific traits in historical fiction written for children — most notably how the notion of positive progress into the future is nuanced differently in this literature in which the concept of progress from the past is inextricably linked to the protagonist's potential for agency and the realization of subjectivity. The genre consistently manifests a concern with identity construction that in turn informs and influences how a metanarrative of positive progress is played out. This book engages in a discussion of the functionality of the past within the genre and offers an interpretative frame for the sifting out of the present from the past in historical fiction for young readers.' (Publisher's blurb)
Untitled Megan Warren , 2004 single work review
— Appears in: Fiction Focus : New Titles for Teenagers , vol. 18 no. 2 2004; (p. 41)
— Review of Fords and Flying Machines : The Diary of Jack McLaren Patricia Bernard , 2003 single work children's fiction ; Snowy : The Diary of Eva Fischer, Cabramurra, 1958-1959 Siobhan McHugh , 2003 single work children's fiction
Untitled Margaret Robson Kett , 2004 single work review
— Appears in: Magpies : Talking About Books for Children , March vol. 19 no. 1 2004; (p. 37)
— Review of Snowy : The Diary of Eva Fischer, Cabramurra, 1958-1959 Siobhan McHugh , 2003 single work children's fiction
For Kids Dianne Dempsey , 2003 single work review
— Appears in: The Age , 15 November 2003; (p. 6)
— Review of Snowy : The Diary of Eva Fischer, Cabramurra, 1958-1959 Siobhan McHugh , 2003 single work children's fiction
For Kids Dianne Dempsey , 2003 single work review
— Appears in: The Age , 15 November 2003; (p. 6)
— Review of Snowy : The Diary of Eva Fischer, Cabramurra, 1958-1959 Siobhan McHugh , 2003 single work children's fiction
Untitled Margaret Robson Kett , 2004 single work review
— Appears in: Magpies : Talking About Books for Children , March vol. 19 no. 1 2004; (p. 37)
— Review of Snowy : The Diary of Eva Fischer, Cabramurra, 1958-1959 Siobhan McHugh , 2003 single work children's fiction
Untitled Megan Warren , 2004 single work review
— Appears in: Fiction Focus : New Titles for Teenagers , vol. 18 no. 2 2004; (p. 41)
— Review of Fords and Flying Machines : The Diary of Jack McLaren Patricia Bernard , 2003 single work children's fiction ; Snowy : The Diary of Eva Fischer, Cabramurra, 1958-1959 Siobhan McHugh , 2003 single work children's fiction
y separately published work icon Re-Visiting Historical Fiction for Young Readers : The Past through Modern Eyes Kim Wilson , New York (City) : Routledge Taylor & Francis Group , 2011 Z1886683 2011 single work criticism 'This study is concerned with how readers are positioned to interpret the past in historical fiction for children and young adults. Looking at literature published within the last thirty to forty years, Wilson identifies and explores a prevalent trend for re-visioning and rewriting the past according to modern social and political ideological assumptions. Fiction within this genre, while concerned with the past at the level of content, is additionally concerned with present views of that historical past because of the future to which it is moving. Specific areas of discussion include the identification of a new sub-genre: Living history fiction, stories of Joan of Arc, historical fiction featuring agentic females, the very popular Scholastic Press historical journal series, fictions of war, and historical fiction featuring multicultural discourses.

Wilson observes specific traits in historical fiction written for children — most notably how the notion of positive progress into the future is nuanced differently in this literature in which the concept of progress from the past is inextricably linked to the protagonist's potential for agency and the realization of subjectivity. The genre consistently manifests a concern with identity construction that in turn informs and influences how a metanarrative of positive progress is played out. This book engages in a discussion of the functionality of the past within the genre and offers an interpretative frame for the sifting out of the present from the past in historical fiction for young readers.' (Publisher's blurb)
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Subjects:
Settings:
  • Cabramurra, Tumut - Tumbarumba area, Southeastern NSW, New South Wales,
  • Snowy Mountains, Cooma - Snowy - Bombala area, Southeastern NSW, New South Wales,
  • 1958-1959
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