Karen is a descendant of the Yorta Yorta people whose ancestral homeland radiates from the junction of the Goulburn and Murray Rivers in North East Victoria. Her other books include The Rabbit-Hole Golf Course (written by Ella Mulvey). Kick with My Left Foot was her first picture book and was shortlisted for the CBCA Crichton Award in 2015. These days she illustrates from her home in the Adelaide Hills. My Left Foot Short Summary Christy Brown’s mother discovers that her son is a different child about whom the doctors thought he would not live long since he was born with cerebral palsy and, as a result of this, he would.

Karen Briggs is a designer and illustrator whose inspiration stems from her love of animals and nature, and memories of holidays with her grandmother on the Cummeragunja Mission. The novel My Left Foot consists of 16 short chapters and every chapter presents an adventure from Christy Brown’s life. As one of 13 surviving children, Brown went on to be an author, painter and poet. His books include Say Yes (written by Jennifer Castles) and Crabbing with Dad, and his short story 'My Shadow', illustrated by Karen Briggs, was included in The Hush Treasure Book. My Left Foot is the 1954 autobiography of Christy Brown, who was born with cerebral palsy on 5 June 1932 in Dublin, Ireland. He grew up in Darwin and he loves to draw and tell stories. Paul Seden is descended from the Wuthathi and Muralag people of North Queensland. Before we read, it is important to understand the context of the book, life in Dublin. This book was produced through the Emerging Indigenous Picture Book Mentoring Project, a joint initiative between The Little Big Book Club and Allen & Unwin, assisted by the Australian Government through the Australia Council, its arts funding and advisory body. You are going to read a novel called My Left Foot by Christy Brown. SHORT-LISTED: CBCA Book of the Year, Crichton Award for New Illustrators, 2015Ī cheerful, energetic story about a young boy playing Australia's favourite game. This is why this thesis used the method of critical discourse analysis to analyse his autobiography My Left Foot (1954) and his semi-autobiographical novel Down.

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