The question on the cover Where’s Spot? alerts the reader that this will be a quest. There is backstory in this first spread. Sally must be Spot’s mother – if the smacky opening sentence doesn’t give it away, we see that her bowl is the larger. She’s rolling her eyes so that we know we’reContinue reading “In a Flap 1980”
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The Wild Washerwomen 1979
‘The washerwomen never went back to work for Mr Balthazar Tight. They married the woodcutters, who built them some new log huts to live in. and after that, people who travelled along the mountain path would see them, all happily washing and woodcutting and having the time of their lives.’ Blake describes John Yeoman, whoContinue reading “The Wild Washerwomen 1979”
George and Martha 1978
James Marshall has drawn George ministering to his friend Martha, who has foolishly spent too long in the sun. Although these animals live in suburbia there are signs that it strains to accommodate them : her pretty rose quilt sags to the floor and the doorway seems to ease upwards to let George through. AContinue reading “George and Martha 1978”
The Aboriginal Children’s History of Australia 1977
Year 1 of 40 ‘This is our land. It goes back, a long way back, into the Dreamtime, into the land of our Dreaming.’ In paintings, drawings in texta and pencil, children from communities all over Australia tell stories from their world in the late 1970s, and times past. The format of the book isContinue reading “The Aboriginal Children’s History of Australia 1977”
40 Years of Picture Books 