Space Travellers
Illustrator: Gregory
Rogers
Author: Margaret Wild
Publisher: Ashton Scholastic 1992
Space Travellers
As society changed an increasing effort was made to portray families in non-stereotypical roles. Recently picture books have appeared about single parent families and homeless children. In Margaret Wild's Space Travellers, illustrated by Gregory Rogers, a mother and her son sleep in a playground space rocket climbing frame. The illustrations show this family as secure and happy and the ending sees Mandy and Zac moving into a house with some friends.
As picture books are often for a younger audience it is understandable
that their world does not yet have to be bleak, although some stark realities
can be introduced.
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