Point of view: 1 st and 2 nd person Ages: 5+Īuthor Polly Marsden tells Australian children ‘we are lucky to live here’, but acknowledges that the country experiences dangerous and extreme weather events. * The Bushfire Book: How To Be Aware and Prepare / Polly Marsden (text) Chris Nixon (illus.) (2020) The selection is separated into two categories-picture books and junior fiction-with the most recent publications listed first. Here is a selection of some of those books about bushfires. And storybook children can offer new ways and words for exploring and comprehending the emotional and psychological impact of fires. There is comfort in knowing other children, even fictional ones, have experienced the same losses. These books provide a way to open conversations with children who have been affected by the fires. Sometimes, the impact was felt internally, and manifested as anxiety, fear, lassitude, sadness.Īustralian authors of children’s books have written about bushfires for many years, but particularly in the last decade following the 2009 Black Saturday fires in Victoria. Others were affected indirectly-disrupted holiday plans, cancelled activities, unrelenting smoke haze. They lost relatives, homes, pets, treasured possessions, favourite places. Some children were directly impacted by the fires. The coverage was unremitting-television, radio, newspapers and social media. Words like ‘catastrophic’ and ‘unprecedented’ peppered the media reports. Weeks turned to months and the fires expanded and intensified. The 2019–2020 Australian bushfire season began early.
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