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'I began as a tiny spark in the dry grass.
'All I wanted was a friend. I found one in the wind, who helped me grow, who helped me fly!
'In the end, though, was the wind really my friend at all?'
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According to a review in Reading Time, Adam Wallace experienced the Ash Wednesday bushfires with his grandmother, which influenced this work. This anecdote is included in the teachers' notes for this text.
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[Review Essay] Spark
2016
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— Appears in: Magpies : Talking About Books For Children , November vol. 31 no. 5 2016; (p. 31)'The author of this grim account of a bushfire actually knows firsthand what it's like: he ran for safety with his Oma when he was just eleven years old during the Ash Wednesday fires in 1983. Adam Wallace has written the story as if he was the fire itself.' (Introduction).
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[Review Essay] Spark
2016
single work
review
essay
— Appears in: Magpies : Talking About Books For Children , November vol. 31 no. 5 2016; (p. 31)'The author of this grim account of a bushfire actually knows firsthand what it's like: he ran for safety with his Oma when he was just eleven years old during the Ash Wednesday fires in 1983. Adam Wallace has written the story as if he was the fire itself.' (Introduction).
Awards
- 2018 shortlisted West Australian Young Readers' Book Award — Picture Books
- 2017 CBCA Book of the Year Awards — Notable Book — Picture Book
