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Sally's Story: My Place for Young Readers
Morgan, Sally
142 pages, Paperback
First published January 1, 1995
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Sally Morgan
415 books138 followersSally Morgan is recognised as one of Australia's best known Aboriginal artists and writers. She is one of a number of successful urban Aboriginal artists.
Sally was born in Perth in 1951, the eldest of five children. As a child she found school difficult because of questions from other students about her appearance and family background. She understood from her mother that she and her family were from India. However, when Sally was fifteen she learnt that she and her sister were in fact of Aboriginal descent, from the Palku people of the Pilbara.
This experience of her hidden origins, and subsequent quest for identity, was the stimulus for her first book My Place published in 1987. It tells the story of her self discovery through reconnection with her Aboriginal culture and community. The book was an immediate success and has since sold over half a million copies in Australia. It has also been published in the United States, Europe and Asia.
Her second book Wanamurraganya was published in 1989. It is the biography of her grandfather, Jack McPhee. She has also written five books for children.
As well as writing, Sally Morgan has established an international reputation as an artist. She has works in numerous private and public collections in Australia and the United States, including the Australian National Gallery and the Dobell Foundation collection. Her work is particularly popular in the United States. Her work as an artist is excellently described and illustrated in the book Art of Sally Morgan.
She has received many awards, including from the Human Rights and Equal Opportunities Commission. As a part of the celebration in 1993 of the Universal Declaration of Human Rights, her print Outback was selected by international art historians as one of 30 paintings and sculptures for reproduction on a stamp representing an article of the Declaration.
My Place remains her most influential work, not only because of its very wide popularity but also because it provided a new model for other writers, particularly those of indigenous background.
She is currently Director of the Centre for Indigenous History and Arts at The University of Western Australia.
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Sally was born in Perth in 1951, the eldest of five children. As a child she found school difficult because of questions from other students about her appearance and family background. She understood from her mother that she and her family were from India. However, when Sally was fifteen she learnt that she and her sister were in fact of Aboriginal descent, from the Palku people of the Pilbara.
This experience of her hidden origins, and subsequent quest for identity, was the stimulus for her first book My Place published in 1987. It tells the story of her self discovery through reconnection with her Aboriginal culture and community. The book was an immediate success and has since sold over half a million copies in Australia. It has also been published in the United States, Europe and Asia.
Her second book Wanamurraganya was published in 1989. It is the biography of her grandfather, Jack McPhee. She has also written five books for children.
As well as writing, Sally Morgan has established an international reputation as an artist. She has works in numerous private and public collections in Australia and the United States, including the Australian National Gallery and the Dobell Foundation collection. Her work is particularly popular in the United States. Her work as an artist is excellently described and illustrated in the book Art of Sally Morgan.
She has received many awards, including from the Human Rights and Equal Opportunities Commission. As a part of the celebration in 1993 of the Universal Declaration of Human Rights, her print Outback was selected by international art historians as one of 30 paintings and sculptures for reproduction on a stamp representing an article of the Declaration.
My Place remains her most influential work, not only because of its very wide popularity but also because it provided a new model for other writers, particularly those of indigenous background.
She is currently Director of the Centre for Indigenous History and Arts at The University of Western Australia.
Librarian Note: There is more than one author in the GoodReads database with this name. See this thread for more information.
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August 1, 2016
This Book is amazing. We got to step inside the shoes of an aboriginal girl, who was living her normal life, with a twist. This book should be a curriculum a normal thing, that school should do to read.
This book could be for any age! But could be too simple for adults, but extremely intersting.
This book could be for any age! But could be too simple for adults, but extremely intersting.
July 18, 2016
sally stories was okay it bored my out a little not much was going on and happening but sometimes i did like sallies cheekiness and being cheeky.
July 18, 2017
i read it in class and at home and i really like it
July 24, 2017
it was really good funny sad and amazing
October 16, 2017
such a moving, kind, touching and funny book... i loved it!!!
July 9, 2022
I thought that Sally’s Story was a pretty good book. It gave some good insight into what it was like growing up in the 50s/60s , and not knowing who you were, or where you came from. I loved being able to see that at the very end, Nan was beginning to come to terms with her heritage, and sharing a tiny bit about her upbringing. I think this was a good read for NAIDOC week.
August 19, 2020
Read this to my daughter. As with most books I pick, she wasn't keen at first, but she was very into it by the end and wanted to go straight onto the next one. I haven't managed to track down the second book, so am trying to bridge the gap between the first and third by using the original version of My Place, which is a much more complex read. The simplicity and straightforwardness of this Young Reader version is really nice and direct. I'd probably give it 3 stars, as it's definitely for a Young Reader, but I think my daughter would give it 4.
July 19, 2017
This book is full of adventures as sally continues her life like any girl but she is surviving it with being Aboriginal when the racism was not very nice.
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July 24, 2017so sad
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October 16, 2017awesome book
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