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Bread and Honey

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Country
  
Australia

Genre
  
Children's fiction

Media type
  
Print

Originally published
  
1970

ISBN
  
0207954097

Followed by
  
Josh

Language
  
English

Publication date
  
1970

Pages
  
118 pp

Author
  
Ivan Southall

Publisher
  
Angus & Robertson

Similar
  
Ivan Southall books, Other books

Bread and Honey (1970) is a novel for children by Australian author Ivan Southall, illustrated by Wolfgang Grasse. It won the Children's Book of the Year Award: Older Readers in 1971. It is also known by the alternative title Walk a Mile and Get Nowhere.

Contents

Plot outline

Michael Cameron is a thirteen-year-old boy living in a small country town with his father and grandmother after the death of his mother. On a wet ANZAC Day, Michael meets and defends a nine-year-old girl from a local bully, and comes to appreciate the attitude of the adults around him and his place in the world.

Critical reception

Gwen Hutchings in The Canberra Times noted that the lead character's "problems hinge on the introspective and his innocent view of people in an every-day world, until the sham of it all is revealed in a moment of truth and he is a better person for knowing it. The idea shows purpose and the narrative is less emotional than in some previous novels."

References

Bread and Honey Wikipedia