Looking Out for Ollie
UQP, $9.95 pb
Children's and Young Adult Fiction
Tell them a story
by Margot Hillel •
If you want to say something about life to other people, you should tell them a story.
– Manning Clark
Writers for children have always known this: from the Puritans who thinly disguised their religious teachings under stories of children who lived a pure life and went to heaven, and those who didn’t and went to hell; to modem writers who tell stories to help children cope with difficult aspects of modem life.
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