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Fictional accounts of childhood

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Fictional accounts of childhood

Writers Elsie Locke, Kate De Goldi, Alison Drummond, Elizabeth Knox and Witi Ihimaera have explored childhood in New Zealand in their fiction. These novels all have children as their main characters. 

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Kerryn Pollock, Childhood – Defining childhood, Te Ara – the Encyclopedia of New Zealand, https://teara.govt.nz/en/photograph/26261/fictional-accounts-of-childhood (accessed 4 June 2026).

Story by Kerryn Pollock, published 22 March 2011.