Welcome Home - Christina Booth
Publisher: Ford
Street
Publication Date: 1
October 2013 HC, 1 February 2014 PB
ISBN: 9781925000092
PB 9781925000085 HC
Pages: 32
pages
Format: Portrait Picture book
Price: AUD $26.95 HC AUD $16.95 PB
Category: Children’s Fiction
Age Guide: 7
+
Blurb:
Welcome
Home is the story of a young boy and a whale as she swims into the river
harbour seeking safety and a resolution to the violent past relationship
between whales and man. This prosaic journey, accompanied with soft sketchy watercolour images, reveals
how the past can impact our future. Can the boy make amends for the past? Can
the whale forgive and return to what was once her ancestor’s home?
Whaling
is a horrific image to portray in any literature yet this story offers its
history and consequences to children and adults in a gentle, safe way. This
story does not avoid the facts but ends with hope and reconciliation, using
history to show the consequences of our actions and choices.
Review:
This
is a really good book to teach primary school children of the effects of
whaling. The watercolour images portray the story in a way that children can
clearly see and understand.
I
really like the last two pages in the book as it is the history of whaling,
describes the whales, how the story came about.
This
book should be in all schools as it’s a great educator tool to teach children
and their families the effects of whaling.
About the Author
Christina Booth:
Christina
Booth is an award winning Australian children’s author/illustrator. Four of her
picture books have gained CBCA’s Notable Children’s Book Awards. Her picture
book, Kip, the story of a crowing rooster living in the city, was awarded
a CBCA Honour Book in 2010. Tow of Christina’s illustrated books (In The Deep Red Desert, Angie Lionetto-Civa; The Carrum Sailing Club, Claire Saxby),
were selected to be read on ABC’s Playschool program in 2012.
Also by Christina
Booth:
·
Potato Music
·
Kip
·
I Wish There Were Dinosaurs
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