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Hardcover The Tram to Bondi Beach Book

ISBN: 0916291200

ISBN13: 9780916291204

The Tram to Bondi Beach

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Keiran longs to be a paper boy. One day he gets his wish only to suffer an embarrassing mishap. But he soon recovers from his accident, regains his job, and at book's end Keiran comes to dream of the... This description may be from another edition of this product.

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Nostalgic

Highly commended - Children's book Council of Australia Picture Book of the Year (year?)The illustrations are water-colour wash - very attractive to adults, but I'm not so sure of their appeal to children.The text is quite sophisticated, so in the younger age range (5 -6 or so) it would need to be read aloud. The Bondi Tram was a fairly legendary institution in Sydney, now 40 years or so gone. The story is set in about the 1940s (judging from the fairisle vests worn by the chief protagonist, Kieran. Kieran gets a job as a paper-boy selling papers on the tram. This is a story about another era, populated by characters with Irish and Anglo sounding names. It is interesting from that point of view, and could be of use in introducing topics of history, and especially for Sydney-siders. The story itself is reasonably interesting for children and would have a place in a library or home collection. It is a gentle evocation of another era and could inspire curiosity in the younger child.
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