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Journey to Jo'burg (Essential Modern Classics) (HarperCollins Children’s Modern Classics)

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Her 2007 novel Burn My Heart has an imagined point of reference in the boyhood in Kenya of a second cousin, Neil Aggett, being set in the 1950s during the Mau Mau Uprising. These questions alone make the differences between Tiro, Naledi and Naidoo's young British readers striking. Most of these drafts include extensive annotation, changes and significant developments which give us insight into how Naidoo works as an author. Apartheid laws forbade marriage between white and black people and barred them living together with their children in South Africa.

Knowing that only their mother will be able to help her, Naledi and Tiro travel to Johannesburg to find her.Seven Stories was able to support the acquisition of the Beverley Naidoo collection through support from a Heritage Lottery Fund ‘Collecting Cultures’ grant. Walking is a very prominent feature in Beverley Naidoo's Journey to Jo’burg, a story that delivers a subtle and powerful message about apartheid South Africa. M any paint a picture of South Africa as a sunny place with awesome animals but, many also refer to racism and/or to a division of people .

This is the notice sent to Beverley's sister-in-law from the Doeane en Aksyns Customs and Excise to inform of the seizure of prohibited material. Black children were sent to separate, inferior schools and their families were told where they could live, work and travel. It shows priorities in teaching and how issues of racism, diversity and multiculturalism have been addressed over almost four decades. The files we hold for 'Censoring Reality' demonstrate Niadoo's active stance against biasedliteraturefor children, working towards an informedportrayalofworld issues and equality. Naidoo doesn't explainthe issues of South Africa but portrays them in a way that encourages us to ask questions.Through letters, resources and school feedback we can see how Journey to Jo'burg (and many of Naidoo's other books) wasused from its publication in 1985 to today. For that work she won the annual Carnegie Medal from the Library Association, recognising the year's best children's book by a British subject. You may remember that we received Beverley Naidoo's collection early last year and almost as soon as it was unpacked and listed we took some of the Journey to Jo’burg files to a school in County Durham – you can read about the resulting event here . Outside South Africa, the book was a success, winning the Parents' Choice Honor Book for Paperback Literature, USA (1988), the Notable Children's Trade Book in the Field of Social Studies, USA (1986), the Child Study Children's Book Committee Award, USA (1986), and The Other Award in the UK (1985). Fan mail is something that we would sometimes consider sampling (keeping only a representative selection of material), particularly when there is so much of it but Naidoo's fanmail, as well as being lovely to look at, is particularly interesting in terms of looking at social opinion and reaction to her work over the span of her career.

Naidoo's collection covers a large proportion of her career and includes her PhD thesis, novels, short stories, picture books, professional and personal correspondence. D. from the University of Southampton and worked as Adviser for Cultural Diversity and English in Dorset. After publication, Beverley Naidoo tried to send the book to her nieces and nephews in South Africa. Printed at the beginning of the book are two newspaper articles which draw Naidoo's fiction into reality. According to Naidoo the 'Most exciting for me is when I feel my writing has really touched a nerve' ( http://www.

However Journey to Jo’burg soon found its way into many different countries, in English and in translations, so that hundreds of thousands of children elsewhere were soon reading it. Naidoo won the Josette Frank Award twice – in 1986 for Journey to Jo'burg and in 1997 for No Turning Back: A Novel of South Africa. Journey to Jo'burg, Chain of Fire and Out of Bounds are set in South Africa under apartheid, while No Turning Back concerns the experiences of a boy trying to survive on the streets of Johannesburg in the immediate post-apartheid years. Journey to Jo'burg was considered an 'undesirable' import and was seized when Naidoo sent copies of the book to South Africa.

In a country with a history of Pass Laws – which required black South Africans to carry passes to regulate and control movement – this action of walking to Johannesburg is very significant. Of course, the children don't walk the entire distance but, the journey is long and one where they begin to realise the impact and injustice of apartheid law. This is the story of love, commitment and the flowering of the human spirit against the background of South Africa's apartheid. The book follows siblings, Naledi and her younger brother, Tiro on a journey to try and save their family.These newspaper reports are very similar to the story of Tiro and Naledi - they are the seed of truth from which her fiction grows. Contentious material about living people that is unsourced or poorly sourced must be removed immediately. This material demonstrates just how meticulous Naidoo is in getting her stories and their message just right. Although many of her books are set in South Africa, she also focusses on refugees and immigration in her latest stories. Journey to Jo'burg gives the reader a glimpse into the life of a young black girl in South Africa under Apartheid.

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