Television Shows The Count of Monte Criso 2024 The Count of Monte Cristo (2024) is an English language French adventure series based on the classic eponymous novel by Alexandre Dumas (1802 – 1870). There are 2 characters displaced from their parents in the series. One is Haydee (Karla-Simone Spence), the orphaned & enslaved daughter of Pasha Ali, whose betrayal & murder by Fernand Mondego (Harry Taurasi) is a significant part of the Count of Monte Cristo’s revenge. The Count of Monte Cristo buys Haydee’s freedom & has her brought to France where she speaks out against Fernand Mondego, now Count de Morcerf. Andre de Villefort (also known as Benedetto in the original & played by Laurent Lafitte) is the illegitimate, hidden son of state prosecutor Gerard de Villefort (Mikkel boe Folsgaard), a crucial figure in the Count of Monte Cristo’s revenge. Andre has been raised in foster care by the midwife who saved him from being buried alive. When Andre appears in court for murder, the midwife, Sabrine (Martina Laird) tells what happened at his birth, how the prosecutor was going to bury the baby alive. This is the end of Gerard de Villefort’s career as state prosecutor. External Website

Authors E The Life and Work of Muhammad ➝ The Cut Out Girl: A Story of War and Family, Lost and Found: The Costa Book of the Year 2018 ➝ Back to Top

Blogs/Web Pages/Articles Transfiguring Adoption 2018 Transfiguring Adoption develops media, resources, and tools that nurture growth in foster and adoptive children – strategically we focus on resourcing foster and adoptive parents. External Website

Authors D Blue Knights ➝ Becoming Dickens: The Invention of a Novelist ➝ Back to Top

Fiction featuring Care Experience Died in the Wool Ngaio Marsh 1945 Died in the Wool is a detective novel by New Zealand writer Ngaio Marsh (1895-1949). Died in the Wool was first published in 1945. It is the 13th of Ngaio Marsh’s novels to feature ‘gentleman detective’ Roderick Alleyn. In Died in the Wool, Alleyn travels to New Zealand and investigates the death of politician Florence Rubrick. Featured in the story is Ursula Harme, Florence Rubrick’s “ward”. Florence Rubrick was godmother to Ursula and became her guardian on the death of Ursula’s mother. The young woman is loyal to her ‘aunt’ and is not the killer. Died in the Wool is 1 of 4 of Marsh’s Alleyn novels adapted for NZ television in 1977 External Website

Performing Arts Mezzo-soprano singer Maroochy Barambah Maroochy Barambah (b. circa 1950) is an Australian Aboriginal mezzo-soprano singer. She is a song-woman, law-woman and elder of the Turrbal people. Maroochy Barambah was born Yvette Isaacs in the town of Cherboug in Queensland. During the 1970s Yvette was able to attend the Melba Conservatorium of Music on a scholarship and the Victorian College of Arts. She graduated in 1979. She went on to establish her own jazz group and in 1982 appeared in Episode 3 of the Women of the Sun historical drama series. Yvette changed her name to Maroochy Barambah in 1982. Maroochy Barambah performed in the 1989 production of Black River—the first Aboriginal Australian to perform opera on stage—for the Sydney Metropolitican Opera, in the Bran Nue Dae musical the following year, and in 1991 “was awarded the inaugural Aboriginal performing arts fellowship by the Aboriginal Arts Committee.” External Website

Television Shows United States of Tara 2009 United States of Tara (2009-2011) is an American comedy-drama series starring Toni Collette as Tara Gregson, an artist and mother coping with DID (dissociative identity disorder). At the end of Series 2, we find out that Tara and her sister, Charmaine Craine (Rosemarie DeWitt) were put into foster care by their mother. Tara’s half-brother was abusing her and Tara’s mother chose foster care while she made other arrangements for her husband’s son from his first marriage. It is only when Tara, accompanied by Charmaine, visits the foster mother that she becomes aware she has a half-brother. External Website

Children's Fiction The Illustrated Mum Jacqueline Lawrence Wilson et al. 2015 Dolphin adores her mother, Marigold who was in care as a child. She’s got wonderful clothes, bright hair, and vivid tattoos all over her body—a colorful lady, to match her colorful life. But Dolphin’s older sister, Star, is beginning to wonder if living with Marigold’s fiery, unpredictable moods is the best thing for the girls. External Website

Actors Lee Majors Lee Majors (born Harvey Lee Yeary; April 23, 1939) is an American film, television and voice actor. Majors was born in Wyandotte, Michigan, a suburb of Detroit. His parents, Carl and Alice Yeary, were both killed in separate accidents (his father in a work accident 5 months prior to his birth and his mother in a car accident when he was almost 17 months old). At age two, Majors was adopted by his uncle and aunt, Harvey and Mildred Yeary and moved with them to Middlesboro, Kentucky. Majors is best known for portraying the characters of Heath Barkley in the American television Western series The Big Valley (1965–1969), Colonel Steve Austin in the American television science fiction action series The Six Million Dollar Man (1973–1978), and Colt Seavers in American television action series The Fall Guy (1981–1986). External Website

Children's Fiction Tarzan of the Apes Edgar Rice Burroughs 1912 Tarzan of the Apes (1912), by American writer Edgar Rice Burroughs, features an orphan character. John Clayton II is abandoned in the jungle in 1888 after his parents die. The baby is adopted by a widow-ape and is named “Tarzan” meaning “White Skin”. Tarzan has multiple adventures, becomes a skilled hunter and, having found his human parents’ cabin, teaches himself to read English. When Tarzan is 21 years of age when he meets Jane Porter after her group is marooned on the coast. The popularity of Burroughs’ book led to him writing a series of sequels which reportedly sold more than 25 million copies internationally. The first film adaptation of Tarzan of the Apes was in 1918, and the most recent (The Legend of Tarzan) in 2016. There have also been a number of adaptations in comic form. External Website

Authors M Fremantle: Reflections of a child migrant ➝ From Hagiography to Personal Pain: Stories of Australian foster care from the nineteenth to the twenty-first century ➝ What Makes a Family? The Radical Portrayal of Diverse Families in Australian Picture Books ➝ Two Mothers - Twice the blessing or was I cursed? ➝ Exploring the legal representation of individuals in foster care: What say youth and alumni? ➝ Surviving the "House of a Hundred Windows": Irish Industrial Schools in Recent Fiction and Memoirs ➝ Blood Doesn't Define Evotypical Families: Eleanor Spence's Stories of Informal and Formal Foster Care in Australia ➝ Out of sight: the censoring of family diversity in picture books ➝ Marking motherhood: Tattooing and willfulness as a response to and a way to survive child removal ➝ Back to Top

Autobiography/Memoir Freedom of Angels: Surviving Goldenbridge Orphanage: Childhood in Goldenbridge Orphanage Bernadette Fahy 1999 At age seven, Bernadette Fahy was delivered with her three brothers to Goldenbridge Orphanage. She was to stay there until she was sixteen. Goldenbridge has come to represent some of the worst aspects of childrearing practices in Ireland of the 1950s and 1960s. Seen as the offspring of people who had strayed from social respectability and religious standards, these children were made to pay for the 'sins' of their parents. Bernadette tells of the pain, fear, hunger, hard labour and isolation experienced in the orphanage. Now trained and working as a counsellor, she has had to dig deeply into her past to understand the patterns laid down by her upbringing. She has had to rebuild her life, and now she helps others to do the same. External Website

Biography of Care Experienced People Steve Jobs: The Exclusive Biography Walter Isaacson 2011 Walter Isaacson's biography of adoptee and computer entrepreneur, Steve Jobs, is based on over 40 interviews Isaacson undertake with Jobs' family members, friends and enemies. Jobs' need for control, his passion and artistry are all talked about, yet Jobs did not ask for control over the book Isaacson wrote. External Website

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Authors B Elizabeth Bowen ➝ Leigh Bardugo ➝ J.M. Barrie ➝ Louise Beech ➝ Anthony Burgess ➝ Floella Benjamin (writer) ➝ Rita Mae Brown ➝ Augusten Burroughs ➝ Nina Bawden ➝ Sally Bayley ➝ Leslie Baruch Brent ➝ Shannon Burns ➝ Annie Besant ➝ Andi Brierley ➝ Martin Buber ➝ Back to Top

Autobiography/Memoir Follow the Rabbit-Proof Fence Doris Garimara Pilkington 2002 This story is based on the actual experiences of three girls who fled from the repressive life of Moore River Native Settlement, following along the rabbit-proof fence back to their homelands. Assimilationist policy deemed these girls were taken from their kin and their land in order to be made white. Never having seen the ocean before, the three girls' experience of transportation by boat to the settlement was tormenting. Settlement life was unbearable with its chains and padlocks, barred windows, hard cold beds and horrible food. Solitary confinement was doled out as regular punishment. They were not even allowed to speak their language. External Website

Television Shows Who Killed Sara 2021 Who Killed Sara? is a Mexican thriller which revolves around Alex Guzman - who was originally convicted for the murder of his sister Sara - searching for the real culprit. The series features an orphan who is taken in by the wealthy Lazcano family and grows up to become the lackey of Mariana Lazcano. External Website

Poetry The Aboriginal Mother and other poems Eliza Hamilton Dunlop ➝ Marks of an Unwanted Rainbow Yusuf Paul McCormack ➝ Gold from the Stone: New and Selected Poems Lemn Sissay ➝ Morning Breaks In The Elevator Lemn Sissay ➝ Care Left Me Autumn Walsh ➝ The Gift of Experience Your Life Your Story ➝ The Adoption Papers Jackie Kay ➝ Strong Black Woman Rebecca Olayinka ➝ Listener Lemn Sissay ➝ The Emperor's Watchmaker Lemn Sissay ➝ Poems From a Runaway. A true story Ben Westwood ➝ How do you #definecare? A collaborative poem by care experienced people IMO Latest ➝ The Fire People: Collection of Contemporary Black British Poets Lemn Sissay ➝ Tender Fingers in a Clenched Fist (OUT OF PRINT) Lemn Sissay ➝ Rebel without Applause Lemn Sissay ➝ Blackberry's Child Joy Williams ➝ Back to Top

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Fiction by Care Experienced authors Brixton Rock Alex Wheatle 2004 Brenton Brown is a 16-year old mixed race youth who has lived in a children's home all his life. He has never met his mother and is haunted by her loss. The best thing happens: Brenton is reunited with his mother, Cynthia. And then the worst: he falls in love with his beautiful half-sister, Juliet. At the same time, Brenton meets his Nemesis in the shape of Terry Flynn, a South London gangster who scars him for life. Brenton vows to seek revenge leads to an explosive climax, set against the music, humour and Caribbean rhythms of life that survive within the troubled South London landscape of 198's Brixton. External Website