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A Trick of the Light
by Carolyn Polizzotto
Price $27.95 
- About the Book
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My memories are at odds with the photo albums. Family snaps generally show smiling faces. The crying child is edited out before the photo is taken, the camera put down, the child comforted. Cleaned up, wiped down; if all else fails, the camera can be put away for another day. Videos are different. The genre of the home video seems to admit — indeed it seems to favour — crying children, toddlers tripping over, dogs grabbing ice-creams from wavering hands. It seems to be allowed in the world of moving film for a child to choose to cry. Not in the world of the family snap, though; and certainly not in the fifties.
- Category
- Biography & Autobiography
- Publication Year
- 2001
- Publisher
- Fremantle Press
- ISBN11
- 1 86368 345 3
- ISBN13
- 9781863683456
- HB/PB
- Hardback
- Format
- B Format (198 x 128mm)
- Pages
- 216
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Wilderness Society Award
Congratulations to Sally Morgan whose book The Last Dance won the Wilderness Society’s 2013 Environment Award for Children’s Literature. Meg McKinlay and Kyle Hughes-Odgers were also shortlisted in the same category for Ten Tiny Things