''Bread and Honey'' (1970) is a novel for children by Australian author

Ivan Southall Ivan Francis Southall AM, DFC (8 June 192115 November 2008) was an Australian writer best known for young adult fiction. He wrote more than 30 children's books, six books for adults, and at least ten works of history, biography or other non-fi ...

, illustrated by Wolfgang Grasse. It won the Children's Book of the Year Award: Older Readers in 1971.Austlit - ''Bread and Honey'' by Ivan Southall
/ref> It is also known by the alternative title ''Walk a Mile and Get Nowhere''.

Plot outline

Michael Cameron is a thirteen-year-old boy living in a small country town in Australia with his father and grandmother after the death of his mother. On a wet

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, Michael meets and defends a nine-year-old girl from a local bully, and comes to appreciate the attitude of the adults around him and his place in the world.

Critical reception

Gwen Hutchings in ''The Canberra Times'' noted that the lead character's "problems hinge on the introspective and his innocent view of people in an every-day world, until the sham of it all is revealed in a moment of truth and he is a better person for knowing it. The idea shows purpose and the narrative is less emotional than in some previous novels.""Boy seeks truth" by Gwen Hutchings, ''The Canberra Times'', 6 March 1971, p13
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{{DEFAULTSORT:Bread and Honey Australian children's novels 1970 Australian novels CBCA Children's Book of the Year Award-winning works 1970 children's books Angus & Robertson books Children's books set in Australia

Plot outline

Critical reception

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