The celebrity chef’s second children’s book includes a sub-plot set in Alice Springs where the novel’s villain abducts a First Nations girl living in foster care.
over the weekend following complaints from a First Nations educational body over cultural insensitivity and trivialisation.includes a sub-plot set in Alice Springs in which the novel’s villain abducts a First Nations girl living in foster care in an Indigenous community. According to the book’s publisher, Penguin Random House UK, no consultation with any Indigenous organisation or individual was undertaken before publication.
Jamie Oliver’s second children’s book, Billy and the Epic Escape, was withdrawn from book stores following complaints from a First Nations educational body.“Children’s minds are impressionable, and it’s crucial to provide them with texts that encourage respectful, open-minded growth. First Nations children should never be exposed to stories that trivialise their culture or perpetuate harmful stereotypes.
Several First Nations writers believe Jamie Oliver’s children’s book would have greatly benefited from consultation with Indigenous groups.“Why is it important to the story that is an Indigenous kid from Alice Springs? What is it about Central Desert beliefs that serve the narrative? Questions like these would have required the author to reflect on whether they were working from a place of intention and knowledge or a place of stereotype,” Lynch says.
“I have written and illustrated 47 children’s books since 1992, and it has been difficult to break through as a Bundjalung woman,” Bancroft says. “We should be highlighting and promoting the experience and knowledge embedded in our First Nations authors and illustrators whose job it is to bring these stories to life.”
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