Beetle Boy
Author: Willey, Margaret
ISBN: 9781467726399
Publisher: Walker Books Australia
Year First Published: 2014
Pages: 208
Dimensions: 202mm x 141mm x
Format: Hardback
Description:
Thought provoking and troubling, Willey continues her career-long skillful exploration of the complicated relationships between teenage children and their broken parents.
Margaret Willey explores the subtle and not-so-subtle ways parents can fail children and the long-term consequences of those failures. When Charlie's mother walked out on the family, eight-year-old Charlie tried to comfort his devastated father by telling him the silly beetle boy stories his mother used to tell him. His father latches on to those stories as a get-rich-quick scheme, and soon he's parading Charlie all over the state as the world's youngest author, hawking
cheaply produced picture book versions of the stories his long-gone mother used to tell. Charlie's childhood becomes a public nightmare he only manages to escape when he becomes too old for his title--at which point Charlie's younger brother takes on the role and even the name in his father's doomed attempt to keep the con going.
ISBN: 9781467726399
Publisher: Walker Books Australia
Year First Published: 2014
Pages: 208
Dimensions: 202mm x 141mm x
Format: Hardback
Description:
Thought provoking and troubling, Willey continues her career-long skillful exploration of the complicated relationships between teenage children and their broken parents.
Margaret Willey explores the subtle and not-so-subtle ways parents can fail children and the long-term consequences of those failures. When Charlie's mother walked out on the family, eight-year-old Charlie tried to comfort his devastated father by telling him the silly beetle boy stories his mother used to tell him. His father latches on to those stories as a get-rich-quick scheme, and soon he's parading Charlie all over the state as the world's youngest author, hawking
cheaply produced picture book versions of the stories his long-gone mother used to tell. Charlie's childhood becomes a public nightmare he only manages to escape when he becomes too old for his title--at which point Charlie's younger brother takes on the role and even the name in his father's doomed attempt to keep the con going.
