Wilfrid Gordon McDonald Partridge

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Wilfrid Gordon McDonald Partridge
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.

Basis

The book was based on 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][4]

Wilfrid Gordon has also been reviewed by Booklist,[5] and YC: Young Children.[6]

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. Vol. 80: 654–658 – via GALE Literature Resource Center. {{cite journal}}: |volume= has extra text (help)
  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. ^ a b "Wilfrid Gordon McDonald Partridge". medhum.med.nyu.edu. Retrieved 7 December 2016.
  5. ^ "Media: Kid Vids (videotape review)". Booklist. 95 (3). American Library Association: 349. October 1998. Retrieved 7 December 2016.
  6. ^ "The Reading Chair". YC: Young Children. 63 (63). National Association for the Education of Young Children: 42. September 2008. Retrieved 7 December 2016.

External links

Library holdings of Wilfrid Gordon McDonald Partridge