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The Fairy Who Wouldn't Fly
Canberra
:
National Library of Australia
,
2014
6165338
2014
single work
children's fiction
children's
fable
'As far as the Fairy Queen was concerned, the Fairy-who-wouldn’t-fly was lazy and so she banished her to the Woodn’t, the place where she had sent all the other creatures who wouldn’t do as they should. There, the Fairy-who-wouldn’t-fly met many friends—the Kookaburra-who-wouldn’t laugh, the Bee-who-wouldn’t-live-in-a-hive, the Frog-who-wouldn’t-hop. Find out how they worked together to return to Fairyland, and how they convinced the Fairy Queen that they had good ideas of their own about how to live their lives.
'The magic tale of The Fairy Who Wouldn’t Fly, adapted by Bronwyn Davies for today’s children, was originally written and illustrated by Pixie O’Harris in 1945.' (Publisher's website.)
Works about this Work
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The Fairy Who Wouldn't Fly : A Story of Subjection and Agency
2005
single work
criticism
— Appears in: Journal of Early Childhood Literacy , August vol. 5 no. 2 2005; (p. 151-174) 'This article examines the discursive shifts in the story The Fairy Who Wouldn't Fly, written and illustrated by Pixie O'Harris in 1945 and then retold by David Harris in 1974. The article examines the changes between the 1940s and the 1970s in the broader social world, in particular the ways the correction of children (or bringing children into the social) is understood. The concepts of subjection, governmentality and agency are used to inform this analysis. The aspect of becoming literate that involves learning how to comprehend oral stories and how to decode graphic signs is analysed as integral to children's subjection in specific historical moments. The analysis provides an example of how teachers might analyse the texts they work with in order to make visible the forms of governmentality they are caught up in when teaching literacy.' -
Untitled
1976
single work
review
— Appears in: Reading Time : The Official Journal of the Children's Book Council of Australia , April no. 59 1976; (p. 24)
— Review of The Fairy Who Wouldn't Fly 1945 single work children's fiction
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Untitled
1976
single work
review
— Appears in: Reading Time : The Official Journal of the Children's Book Council of Australia , April no. 59 1976; (p. 24)
— Review of The Fairy Who Wouldn't Fly 1945 single work children's fiction -
The Fairy Who Wouldn't Fly : A Story of Subjection and Agency
2005
single work
criticism
— Appears in: Journal of Early Childhood Literacy , August vol. 5 no. 2 2005; (p. 151-174) 'This article examines the discursive shifts in the story The Fairy Who Wouldn't Fly, written and illustrated by Pixie O'Harris in 1945 and then retold by David Harris in 1974. The article examines the changes between the 1940s and the 1970s in the broader social world, in particular the ways the correction of children (or bringing children into the social) is understood. The concepts of subjection, governmentality and agency are used to inform this analysis. The aspect of becoming literate that involves learning how to comprehend oral stories and how to decode graphic signs is analysed as integral to children's subjection in specific historical moments. The analysis provides an example of how teachers might analyse the texts they work with in order to make visible the forms of governmentality they are caught up in when teaching literacy.'
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