Talk:Dougy

Premise

The Premise section in this article just sort of trails off, can someone add more info? Thanks! --Lwarf ^{Talk to Me!} 12:46, 24 May 2007 (UTC)

Unity College student’s comment about DOUGY - themes of racism and exclusion

Dougy is a book that is showing stories about Dougy having to deal with racism and being left out. This is an important book, that we could show to kids that are about the ages 12–15 and they would be able to experience through Dougy how racism feels like.- by a student in unity college!!

Yes - the identification students can achieve is important - as is the empathy with the protagonist and with the interaction between characters.

We have all sorts of thoughts; feelings; reactions to racial identity and perception - especially at the crucial ages of 12, 13, 14, 15.

Some of us encountered ‘’Dougy’’ [and Gracey and Angela] when we were younger and/or older.

I first “met” Dougy through the ‘’Literature for children’’ article in ‘’'World Book Year Book’'’ roughly contemporaneously to its first publication - it had been mentioned in the Australian section of the Literature for Children article - or in a separate Young Adult section.

[The WORLD BOOKS I have at home are 1995; 1996; 1997; 1998]

DOUGY might also have been mentioned in FUNK AND WAGNALLS Year Books - check your encyclopaedias and their associated YEAR BOOKS. They are useful secondary sources!

There is a lot of “grey literature” regarding children’s and young adult literature and their critiques and reading and writing practises; as there is in and for and from the education system - in Australia and elsewhere. Also you might have something about it in the ‘’'Koori Mail’'’ (though as we are dealing with Queenslanders; that may be more of a Murri taste/inflection - though still rural and urban east coast Oz).

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