Wilfrid Gordon McDonald Partridge

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Wilfrid Gordon McDonald Partridge
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First edition
AuthorMem Fox
IllustratorJulie Vivas
CountryAustralia
LanguageEnglish
GenreChildren's picture book, poetry
Published1984 (Omnibus Books)
Media typePrint (hardback)
Pages32 (unpaginated)
ISBN9780949641168
OCLC19618469

Wilfrid Gordon McDonald Partridge is a 1984 Children's picture book by Mem Fox. It is about a boy, Wilfrid, who helps an elderly friend, Nancy, to regain some of her memory. In 1998, American company Weston Woods Studio released a film adaptation of this book, narrated by the author with music by Ernest Troost.

Basis[]

The name of the boy who is the central character is that of Fox's father, Wilfried Gordon McDonald Partridge, who, with his wife, Nancy, was sent to Zimbabwe as a teaching missionary.[1]

Reception[]

School Library Journal wrote "The illustrations splashy, slightly hazy watercolors in rosy pastels contrast the boy's fidgety energy with his friends' slow, careful movements and capture the story's warmth and sentiment."[2] Alzheimer's Australia found it "sensitively written".[3] A review by the NYU Langone Medical Center called it "A magnificently written and illustrated story about communication."[4]

Fox herself has noted the politically loaded aspects of the story, in having a white hero, separating the elderly from their families, and having a focus on nuclear families.[1]

References[]

  1. ^ a b Fox, Mem (8 May 1993). Peacock, Scot (ed.). "Politics and Literature: Chasing the "isms" from children's books". Children's Literature Review. 80: 654–658 – via GALE Literature Resource Center.
  2. ^ "Wilfrid Gordon McDonald Partridge". Buffalo and Erie County Public Library. Retrieved 7 December 2016.
  3. ^ "Book review - Wilfred Gordon McDonald Partridge". fightdementia.org.au. Alzheimer's Australia. Retrieved 7 December 2016.
  4. ^ "Wilfrid Gordon McDonald Partridge". medhum.med.nyu.edu. Retrieved 7 December 2016.

External links[]

Library holdings of Wilfrid Gordon McDonald Partridge
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