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'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.)
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Suitable for ages: 9-13.
Publication Details of Only Known VersionEarliest 2 Known Versions of
Other Formats
- Dyslexic edition.
Works about this Work
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The Gift and the Ethics of Representing Aboriginality in Australian Children's Literature
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)
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Reading & Viewing
2013
single work
review
— Appears in: English in Australia , vol. 48 no. 1 2013; (p. 99-104)
— Review of Past the Shallows 2011 single work novel ; Crow Country 2011 single work children's fiction ; Froi of the Exiles 2011 single work novel ; When We Were Two 2011 single work novel ; Black Spring 2012 single work novel ; Indo Dreaming 2005 single work novel ; Quintana of Charyn 2012 single work novel -
Golden Books for Children
2012
single work
column
— Appears in: The Advertiser , 4 April 2012; (p. 3) -
Small Eyes, Big Prize
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
2012
single work
criticism
— Appears in: Magpies : Talking about Books for Children , May vol. 27 no. 2 2012; (p. 8-11)
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Review : Crow Country
2011
single work
review
— Appears in: Bookseller + Publisher Magazine , August vol. 91 no. 2 2011; (p. 33)
— Review of Crow Country 2011 single work children's fiction -
Review : Crow Country
2011
single work
review
— Appears in: Magpies : Talking About Books for Children , September vol. 26 no. 4 2011; (p. 34)
— Review of Crow Country 2011 single work children's fiction -
Kids Lit
2011
single work
review
— Appears in: The Weekend Australian , 1-2 October 2011; (p. 25)
— Review of Only Ever Always 2011 single work novel ; Crow Country 2011 single work children's fiction ; Have You Seen Ally Queen? 2011 single work novel -
Review : Crow Country
2011
single work
review
— Appears in: Fiction Focus : New Titles for Teenagers , vol. 25 no. 4 2011; (p. 17)
— Review of Crow Country 2011 single work children's fiction -
Review : Crow Country
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 2011 single work children's fiction -
Crow Country : Treading Ambiguous Pathways
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
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
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
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
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)
Awards
- 2012 Younger Readers CBCA Book of the Year Awards — Notable Book
- 2012 winner New South Wales Premier's Literary Awards — Patricia Wrightson Prize for Children's Books
- 2012 winner CBCA Book of the Year Awards — Book of the Year: Younger Readers
- 2012 shortlisted Festival Awards for Literature (SA) Adelaide Festival Awards for Literature South Australian Literary Awards — Children's Literature Award
- 2011 shortlisted Western Australian Premier's Book Awards — Young Adults
- Boort, Wedderburn - Boort - Pyramid Hill area, North West Victoria, Victoria,
- 2000-2099