tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7080763276453498935.post3252137600762106584..comments2024-03-18T02:02:51.107-07:00Comments on CBCA Tasmania blog: Some comments on YA Historical fictionCBCA Tasmaniahttp://www.blogger.com/profile/13175617441683356572noreply@blogger.comBlogger1125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7080763276453498935.post-30089080248596428512013-01-30T15:55:03.172-08:002013-01-30T15:55:03.172-08:00You must have attended the same schools as me! Be...You must have attended the same schools as me! Between 1968 and 1979 I was taught no history at all, except the two World Wars and Australian explorers - and the only ones I remember were indeed Blaxland, Wentworth and Lawson, because we had a comic book (which would nowadays be called a graphic novel) about them in the school library. However, thanks to Trease, Treece, Rosemary Sutcliff, Barbara Leonie Picard, Cynthia Harnett and Hester Burton, I got a little history in. The authors didn't intend to teach history - they just found the past a fascinating place where people had different beliefs and problems. And thanks to the fact that those books were well illustrated with a wealth of historical detail, a generation of children also grew up with strong visual images of the past.Gay McKinnonhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/03895148163666930686noreply@blogger.com