My Place analysis

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Form
The form of My Place is a children’s picture book. My Place has 48 pages which is in the range of pages for picture books. My place is also in the genre of historical fiction, it follows the lives of Australian children travelling backwards in time and showing the changes that have happened in Australian history. The Author Nadia Wheatley uses real life events and places to show the lifestyle and the trends through the lives of fictional characters. The illustrations in this text connect smoothly with the words used to tell each child’s life along with mini details and preferences about how the child felt about places, “Shepard’s soft drink factory YUM YUM (Mumma reckons it’s bad for you)”
Context
The book was published in 1987, one year before Australia’s bicentennial celebrations, and it is this context that directly influenced the creation of this text. In 1988 the world was beginning to notice famine and animal rights, in the illustrations a lady was wearing a shirt saying feed the world. In 1938 Col is talking about evictions and the houses are made more from wood than bricks and concrete, in the 1930s Australia was just beginning to recover from the great depression and there was a lot of unemployment meaning many people could not pay rent and eventually got evicted moving to unemployment camps. In 1918 Bertie’s big brother is shown to only have one leg and the men in the illustrations had army uniforms on and with injuries and most of the women in VAD dresses, he mentions that there is a lot of celebrations as the war had just ended this references WW1. 1898 the horse in the picture is named Ned Kelly after the infamous bushranger Ned Kelly. In 1858 Leck from China and Benjamin from Sans Francisco had both come from d...

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...ore formal matters compared to the children in 1978 who speak of basic things such as fun and games. In each different timeline the children first introduce themselves and then their age, the words that the children say show their feelings about different places such as their school and how they feel about them “My YUK school”. The word for police changed from police to cops through the years.
Conclusion
Personally I think this book is very affective in informing the changes in history, celebrating it and at the same time entertaining audiences of an older generation as well the young. It uses a wide yet not difficult range of vocabulary along with many illustrations that children can understand and adults will not get bored. When I read this book I was very surprised that a children’s book would contained such stories in the lives like the WW1 and loss of family.

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