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'Each year, the Children's Book Council of Australia (CBCA) administers a number of Book of the Year Awards, including the Eve Pownall Award for Information Books. The books chosen by the CBCA constitute a contemporary canon of Australian children's literature, and serve to both shape and reflect current educational policies and practices as well as young Australians' sense of themselves and their nation. This paper reads a selection of award-winning Australian non-fiction children's literature in the context of colonialism, curriculum, military myths, and Aboriginal perspectives on national history and identity.'
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Epigraph: History is always selective—you never hear the whole story—and there are many myths about Gallipoli. (Davidson Scarecrow 2)
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Paranoid Prizing : Mapping Australia’s Eve Pownall Award for Information Books, 2001–2010
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Subjects:
- The Gallipoli Story 2003 single work information book
- Kokoda Track : 101 Days 2007 single work non-fiction
- Scarecrow Army : The Anzacs at Gallipoli 2005 single work biography
- Papunya School Book of Country and History 2001 single work information book
- A is for Aunty 2000 single work picture book
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