AustLit logo
person or book cover
Courtesy of Allen & Unwin.
y separately published work icon Crow Country single work   children's fiction   children's   adventure   fantasy  
Issue Details: First known date: 2011... 2011 Crow Country
The material on this page is available to AustLit subscribers. If you are a subscriber or are from a subscribing organisation, please log in to gain full access. To explore options for subscribing to this unique teaching, research, and publishing resource for Australian culture and storytelling, please contact us or find out more.

AbstractHistoryArchive Description

'Beginning and ending, always the same, always now. The game, the story, the riddle, hiding and seeking. Crow comes from this place; this place comes from Crow. And Crow has work for you.

'Sadie isn't thrilled when her mother drags her from the city to live in the country town of Boort. But soon she starts making connections - connections with the country, with the past, with two boys, Lachie and Walter, and, most surprisingly, with the ever-present crows.

'When Sadie is tumbled back in time to view a terrible crime, she is pulled into a strange mystery. Can Sadie, Walter and Lachie figure out a way to right old wrongs, or will they be condemned to repeat them?' (From the publisher's website.)

Teaching Resources

Teaching Resources

This work has teaching resources.

Teachers notes from publisher's website.

Notes

  • Suitable for ages: 9-13.

Publication Details of Only Known VersionEarliest 2 Known Versions of

    • Crows Nest, North Sydney - Lane Cove area, Sydney Northern Suburbs, Sydney, New South Wales,: Allen and Unwin , 2011 .
      person or book cover
      Courtesy of Allen & Unwin.
      Extent: 238p.
      Note/s:
      • Publication date: September 2011.
      ISBN: 9781742373959 (pbk.)
Alternative title: سرزمین زاغ
Language: Persian
    • Tehran,
      c
      Iran,
      c
      Middle East, Asia,
      :
      هوپا ,
      2019 .
      image of person or book cover 4548151413134086971.png
      Image courtesy of publisher's website.
      Extent: 245p.p.
      ISBN: 9786008869542

Other Formats

  • Dyslexic edition.

Works about this Work

The Gift and the Ethics of Representing Aboriginality in Australian Children's Literature Xu Daozhi , 2016 single work criticism
— Appears in: Australian Aboriginal Studies , no. 2 2016; (p. 33-45)

'This paper draws on theories of the gift to address the ethics of representing Aboriginality in Australian children's literature, which is a contentious debate that centres on who is eligible to tell Aboriginal stories and how the stories can be told. Considering the historical indebtedness in Australian racial relations, the paper suggests that children's books that incorporate reference to Aboriginal cultural elements constitute a metaphorical 'gift' exchange between Aboriginal custodians as the givers and writers as the recipients who are expected to 'return' such an intellectual gift through their books in an appropriate manner. In this view, the paper specifies the ethical issues confronted by non-Aboriginal writers for children, including Patricia Wrightson, Phillip Gwynne and Kate Constable, and examines the way in which the gift relationship sheds light on the question of how to avoid infringement of Aboriginal protocols without submitting to self-censorship. A caring gesture, underlining the relationship between self and others in gift exchanges, is identified to negotiate the writer's interests in Aboriginal stories with cultural sensitivity against unauthorised appropriation. The paper therefore argues that the morality of gift exchanges, which demands a balanced consideration of disparate interests in obligatory reciprocation, offers a possible solution to the dilemma of non-Aboriginal writers in the treatment of Aboriginal subject matter.' (Publication abstract)

Reading & Viewing Deborah McPherson , 2013 single work review
— Appears in: English in Australia , vol. 48 no. 1 2013; (p. 99-104)

— Review of Past the Shallows Favel Parrett , 2011 single work novel ; Crow Country Kate Constable , 2011 single work children's fiction ; Froi of the Exiles Melina Marchetta , 2011 single work novel ; When We Were Two Robert Newton , 2011 single work novel ; Black Spring Alison Croggon , 2012 single work novel ; Indo Dreaming Neil Grant , 2005 single work novel ; Quintana of Charyn Melina Marchetta , 2012 single work novel
Golden Books for Children Deborah Bogle , 2012 single work column
— Appears in: The Advertiser , 4 April 2012; (p. 3)
Small Eyes, Big Prize Angie Schiavone , 2012 single work column
— Appears in: The Saturday Age , 18 August 2012; (p. 24-25) The Sydney Morning Herald , 18-19 August 2012; (p. 30-31)
Slipping back through Time : Discovering Time-Slip Fiction Jenny Sandercombe , 2012 single work criticism
— Appears in: Magpies : Talking about Books for Children , May vol. 27 no. 2 2012; (p. 8-11)
Review : Crow Country Fiona Crawford , 2011 single work review
— Appears in: Bookseller + Publisher Magazine , August vol. 91 no. 2 2011; (p. 33)

— Review of Crow Country Kate Constable , 2011 single work children's fiction
Review : Crow Country Carole Poustie , 2011 single work review
— Appears in: Magpies : Talking About Books for Children , September vol. 26 no. 4 2011; (p. 34)

— Review of Crow Country Kate Constable , 2011 single work children's fiction
Kids Lit Bridget Cormack , 2011 single work review
— Appears in: The Weekend Australian , 1-2 October 2011; (p. 25)

— Review of Only Ever Always Penni Russon , 2011 single work novel ; Crow Country Kate Constable , 2011 single work children's fiction ; Have You Seen Ally Queen? Deb Fitzpatrick , 2011 single work novel
Review : Crow Country Alison Miles , 2011 single work review
— Appears in: Fiction Focus : New Titles for Teenagers , vol. 25 no. 4 2011; (p. 17)

— Review of Crow Country Kate Constable , 2011 single work children's fiction
Review : Crow Country Joy Steward , 2011 single work review
— Appears in: Reading Time : The Journal of The Children's Book Council of Australia , November vol. 55 no. 4 2011; (p. 32-33)

— Review of Crow Country Kate Constable , 2011 single work children's fiction
Crow Country : Treading Ambiguous Pathways Kate Constable , 2011 single work autobiography
— Appears in: Magpies : Talking About Books for Children , September vol. 26 no. 4 2011; (p. 18-20)
Slipping back through Time : Discovering Time-Slip Fiction Jenny Sandercombe , 2012 single work criticism
— Appears in: Magpies : Talking about Books for Children , May vol. 27 no. 2 2012; (p. 8-11)
Small Eyes, Big Prize Angie Schiavone , 2012 single work column
— Appears in: The Saturday Age , 18 August 2012; (p. 24-25) The Sydney Morning Herald , 18-19 August 2012; (p. 30-31)
Golden Books for Children Deborah Bogle , 2012 single work column
— Appears in: The Advertiser , 4 April 2012; (p. 3)
The Gift and the Ethics of Representing Aboriginality in Australian Children's Literature Xu Daozhi , 2016 single work criticism
— Appears in: Australian Aboriginal Studies , no. 2 2016; (p. 33-45)

'This paper draws on theories of the gift to address the ethics of representing Aboriginality in Australian children's literature, which is a contentious debate that centres on who is eligible to tell Aboriginal stories and how the stories can be told. Considering the historical indebtedness in Australian racial relations, the paper suggests that children's books that incorporate reference to Aboriginal cultural elements constitute a metaphorical 'gift' exchange between Aboriginal custodians as the givers and writers as the recipients who are expected to 'return' such an intellectual gift through their books in an appropriate manner. In this view, the paper specifies the ethical issues confronted by non-Aboriginal writers for children, including Patricia Wrightson, Phillip Gwynne and Kate Constable, and examines the way in which the gift relationship sheds light on the question of how to avoid infringement of Aboriginal protocols without submitting to self-censorship. A caring gesture, underlining the relationship between self and others in gift exchanges, is identified to negotiate the writer's interests in Aboriginal stories with cultural sensitivity against unauthorised appropriation. The paper therefore argues that the morality of gift exchanges, which demands a balanced consideration of disparate interests in obligatory reciprocation, offers a possible solution to the dilemma of non-Aboriginal writers in the treatment of Aboriginal subject matter.' (Publication abstract)

Last amended 29 Jun 2021 10:29:18
Settings:
  • Boort, Wedderburn - Boort - Pyramid Hill area, North West Victoria, Victoria,
  • 2000-2099
Newspapers:
    Powered by Trove
    X