


Questions about responsibility, violence, sex, fear and death bloom beneath their placed surface. Shaped by the girls’ growing awareness of the world, her scenes are uneasy dreamscapes. Review:ĭubosarsky’s spare prose explores the space between innocence and adulthood. But, as I say - all of our teachers come home safe and sound in the end." Ursula Dubosarsky lives in Australia. This element of the story, I suppose, is at least partly autobiographical. About The Golden Day, her first book with Candlewick Press, she says, "The little girls watch, wonder, respond, change, and grow - and then their childhood is gone, forever. Ursula Dubosarsky is an award-winning author of numerous books for children and young adults.
