When Jays Fly to Barbmo

{{Use Australian English|date=October 2016}} {{Use dmy dates|date=October 2016}}{{Short description|1968 novel by Margaret Balderson}} {{Infobox book| | name = When Jays Fly to Barbmo | title_orig = | translator = | image = File:When_Jays_Fly_to_Barbmo.jpg | caption = | author = [[Margaret Balderson]] | cover_artist = | country = Australia | language = [[English language|English]] | series = | genre = Children's fiction | publisher = [[Oxford University Press]] | release_date = 1968 | media_type = Print | pages = 202 pp | isbn = | preceded_by = – | followed_by = A Dog Called George }}

'''''When Jays Fly to Barbmo''''' (1968) is the [[debut novel]] for children by Australian author [[Margaret Balderson]], illustrated by [[Victor Ambrus]].<ref>[http://trove.nla.gov.au/work/8490907 National Library of Australia - ''When Jays Fly to Barbmo'' by Margaret Balderson]</ref> It won the [[Children's Book of the Year Award: Older Readers]] in 1969.<ref name=ct1969>[http://nla.gov.au/nla.news-article136943729 "Book Council Award Winners", ''The Canberra Times'', 12 July 1969, p16]</ref>

==Plot outline== The novel is set on a remote island off the coast of Norway during World War II. It follows the story of 14-year-old Ingeborg who must survive during a long dark winter after her aunt dies and the Nazis take over the island.

==Critical reception== In a review of the book in ''The Canberra Times'' the reviewer stated: "This distinguished piece of writing is a tremendously individual and quite moving story...There is some overwriting and action occasionally flags, but characterisation, originality and the breadth of the story makes it a most satisfying piece of work. Victor Ambrus has provided some delightful illustrations that in style and character are a true extension of the text."<ref>[http://nla.gov.au/nla.news-article136943754 "A Distinguished Piece of Writing", ''The Canberra Times'', 12 July 1969, p17]</ref>

''Kirkus Reviews'' noted: "The image evoked in the restrictively literary course of Ingeborg's sometimes faltering and always dense story suggests Anne Frank's diary written into a Bartos-Hoppner Siberian wilderness; though destined for only limited response it is an image wrought of violent silence with a rare and relentless grip."<ref>[https://www.kirkusreviews.com/book-reviews/margaret-balderson/when-jays-fly-to-barbmo/ "When Jays Fly to Barbmo by Margaret Baldeson", ''Kirkus reviews'', 3 November 1969]</ref>

==See also== {{Portal|Children's literature}} * [[1968 in Australian literature]]

==References== {{Reflist}}

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