What a splendid work by Sheena Knowles.To kids this story may be an interesting story to be heard on and to adults like us, we may say that this story highlighted a few issues that best to be think of. Sheena Knowles is very good in embrace children with her story by using an animal as a prescriptive towards certain gender.More than that,it help the kids to find this story as an interesting story eventhough the moral value and the theme is a little bit heavy for the young reader.
The story start with a couple of emu,Edward and Edwina and soon they are going to be a father and a mother.Edwina try to take all the responsibility to go out and find a job to grow up their babies. As she work hard for the that soon hatches to be their babies,Edwina found out something that she meant to be a t home and take care of their eggs.All these job supposes to be men work and not women.
Sheena Knowles play it good in relating the issues of women's right and and gender issues. I did some research on her and i found out that she is an Australian where women over there fighting over the equality of men and women. It shows that setting of background did effect the writing. I must say that Rod clement(the illustrator) also did a good job by interpreting a good illustration with the story. It does help in making the story become more interesting in reading it.
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