Australian April and the first Australians – Texts about Indigenous Australians (2) Following on from the previous blog, I will provide some other recommendations – At the start of 2011, I had to do a collection analysis of what texts I would recommend to an English faculty to have as class etc texts for a … Continue reading
Australian April and the first Australians – Texts about Indigenous Australians In the bookgenremonthly blog on Jasper Jones I referred to Dougy , Deadly Unna and Herbie as comparisons and as a result started thinking of the other indigenous themed texts I have read over the past few years that have given me the “aha” … Continue reading
Jasper Jones – Craig Silvey I decided to do this book for genre monthly as it has caused some controversy at a local school where it has been book-listed as a Year 10 text replacing Harper Lee’s To Kill a Mockingbird. Whether the issue is the content or that it has replaced the much loved … Continue reading