Summary Of The Picture Book 'My Place'

My Place, created by Nadia Wheatley is a historical fiction told through a picture book. This particular picture book is an unusual one as it is longer than normal picture books. It uses medium sized texts for the target audience to be able to read the book. It also has colourful hand drawn illustrations. My Place also has a number of main characters. The main characters are the kids who are telling their story and how they lived. My Place is a simple story book that gets straight to the point by having a different story on each page. This picture book does not follow a normal style of a picture book because usually they contain lots of pictures and a short story, but this one contains a considerate amount of story using words. Each story is based in the same place, but with different cultures and different stories of children and how they lived.

My Place by Nadia Wheatley and illustrated by Donna Rawlins was first published in 1987. The following year, 1988 is when the Australian Bicentenary

Wheatley and Rawlins used these styles and language to heighten the mood of the book to make it more involving and interesting. The specific tones used in the book my place varies because in some stories there is a negative feel to it and in others there is a positive feel. Rawlins uses warm colors to make the book look visually attractive. Wheatley also uses some techniques such as showing racism and name calling, because she wants her target audience to feel connected to some of the characters. There are techniques such as sketches and repetition maps and color’s. The readers are able to see what the characters are talking about. For example, each character introduces their pet and in the illustrations there are pets. Wheatley uses first person and descriptive language so when the reader is reading the book, they feel connected to the