Issue Details:
First known date:
1947...
vol.
2
no.
4
October
1947
of
The Australasian Book News and Literary Journal
est. 1947
The Australasian Book News and Literary Journal
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Notes
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Includes an article by Eleanor Graham on her experience advising Penguin Books on a children's list.
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Includes 'Primitive Dance' by American dancer Ted Shawn who had been studying corroborees in the Northern Territory.
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Includes reviews of three 'whodunnits' including Agatha Christie's The Hollow, G-Men on Murder Island by Leland Jamieson and Gerald G. Swan and The Moving Finger by John Barrington.
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Includes Books Published in Australia: List of Books Supplied to the National Library, Canberra, under the Provisions of the Copyright Act. 27 July - 26 August, 1947 (pp. 219-222)
Contents
* Contents derived from the 1947 version. Please note that other versions/publications may contain different contents. See the Publication Details.
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To-Morrow's World: Books Are a Weapon Against Ignorance,
single work
prose
(p. 171)This editorial situates children in a global context and books as a vital part of their understanding of their situation.
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Drama Offshore,
single work
review
— Review of The Story of Sarli the Barrier Reef Turtle 1947 single work children's fiction ; (p. 172, 178) - What Children Like To Read, single work column (p. 173-74)
- Sarli the Barrier Reef Turtle, extract children's fiction children's (p. 175, 177-78)
- Australian Children's Books Honoured in U.S.A., single work column (p. 180)
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Recent Children's Books,
single work
review
— Review of Pamela Finds the Rainbow Castle 1947 single work children's fiction ; Six Comical Stories About Rattigan Rat 1947 single work children's fiction ; Glory Bird 1947 single work picture book ; (p. 181, 183) - Library in the School, single work prose (p. 186-87, 189)
- South Australian Favourites, single work column (p. 193-94)
- Tasmanian Book Week, single work column (p. 195)
- Children's Play Competition, single work column (p. 195)
- Myra Morris and `White Magic', single work biography (p. 204-205,211)
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A Mixed Bag,
single work
review
— Review of Brindle Royalist : A Story of the Australian Plains 1946 single work novel ; A Room on the Route : A Novel 1947 single work novel ; (p. 206-07) - Not For Publication, single work column (p. 208)
- Frenchman Became a Bush Writer, single work (p. 213-215)
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Rondeau in Martin Place
Rondeaui"In Martin Place, where swift or slow",
single work
poetry
(p. 223)
Note: Editor's note: (From The Remembered Valley and Other Poems by Nellie Evans, John Lynch, publisher, 5/-.)
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