Jamie Oliver’s novel really missed the mark. There are plenty of fantastic First Nations’ books if schools look for them
- Written by Amy Thomson, PhD candidate, Senior Research Assistant, School of Education, The University of Queensland
Celebrity chef Jamie Oliver’s new fantasy novel for primary students, Billy and the Epic Escape, features a First Nations character.
As The Guardian reports, it features a “young First Nations girl living in foster care in an Indigenous community near Alice Springs who gets abducted by the novel’s villain”.
The book was...





