Picture+books+-+Art+meets+literature

**[|Requiem for a beast by Matt Ottley]** This page is taken from [|CMIS Evaluation: Fiction Focus.] When //[|Requiem for a Beast]// was awarded the [|CBCA Picture Book of the Year] in August, the critics came out in unprecedented numbers. [|Matt Ottley], the CBCA judges and the organisation’s National President were personally vilified and the hate mail flowed in. Such a strong reaction for a book that had languished almost unnoticed until then. Some of the loudest voices even later privately admitted that they had not read it before condemning it publicly.

Read about the outrage created by the language and content (confronting issues) of this controversial book [|here.] Read a [|blog post] about it. Read a [|summary] here.

It would be interesting to develop a unit of work for this picture book for Year 10 students. The study would be cross-curricular, and would include English, Art, History, Geography.