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Alternative title: New Books for Boys and Girls
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Date: 1966-1970
Date: 1964-1966
Date: 1957
Issue Details: First known date: 1956... 1956 Reading Time
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Date: 1956-2013
First known date: 1956
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y separately published work icon Reading Time Reading Time Online John Cohen (editor), Tina Cavanough (editor), Trisha Buckley (editor), 2013 Children's Book Council of Australia , 2013- 7752461 2013 periodical (27 issues)

The Children's Book Council of Australia (CBCA) 'has a strong commitment and a long history of reviewing Australian children's books. For many of the nearly seventy years CBCA has been in existence reviews were presented in our print journal Reading Time. Reading Time Online replaces Reading Time in print and includes all your old favourites such as reviews, interviews with established and emerging authors and illustrators and reports from CBCA judges. You will also find booklists, articles on topics of interest to the children's book world, guest blog posts and more here on Reading Time Online.'

Source: 'About Us.' Reading Time Online website.

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Not a Hoarder, but a Collector Chris Cheng , 2013 single work column
— Appears in: Reading Time : The Journal of the Children's Book Council of Australia , May vol. 57 no. 2 2013; (p. 6)
Editorial John Cohen , 2006 single work column
— Appears in: Reading Time , February vol. 50 no. 1 2006; (p. 2) Editorial of the 50th anniversary of the periodical Reading Time.
CBC Sixty Years On H. M. Saxby , 2005 single work criticism
— Appears in: Reading Time : The Journal of the Children's Book Council of Australia , November vol. 49 no. 4 2005; (p. 6-9) Speech given at the Children's Book Council of Australia 60th anniversary dinner held at the Tea Room, Queen Victoria Building, Sydney, New South Wales, 21 September 2005. In this speech Maurice Saxby outlines the history of the Council, the Awards and Children's Book Week, the beginning of the review journal New Books for Boys and Girls (Reading Time) and his own career.
Coincidentally, it's the 150th Issue! Stephanie Owen Reeder , 1999 single work column
— Appears in: Reading Time : The Journal of the Children's Book Council of Australia , February vol. 43 no. 1 1999; (p. 3-4)
Sesquicentenary of Reading Time or Reading Time is 150! Laurie Copping , 1999 single work column
— Appears in: Reading Time : The Journal of the Children's Book Council of Australia , February vol. 43 no. 1 1999; (p. 2-3)
Sesquicentenary of Reading Time or Reading Time is 150! Laurie Copping , 1999 single work column
— Appears in: Reading Time : The Journal of the Children's Book Council of Australia , February vol. 43 no. 1 1999; (p. 2-3)
Coincidentally, it's the 150th Issue! Stephanie Owen Reeder , 1999 single work column
— Appears in: Reading Time : The Journal of the Children's Book Council of Australia , February vol. 43 no. 1 1999; (p. 3-4)
CBC Sixty Years On H. M. Saxby , 2005 single work criticism
— Appears in: Reading Time : The Journal of the Children's Book Council of Australia , November vol. 49 no. 4 2005; (p. 6-9) Speech given at the Children's Book Council of Australia 60th anniversary dinner held at the Tea Room, Queen Victoria Building, Sydney, New South Wales, 21 September 2005. In this speech Maurice Saxby outlines the history of the Council, the Awards and Children's Book Week, the beginning of the review journal New Books for Boys and Girls (Reading Time) and his own career.
Editorial John Cohen , 2006 single work column
— Appears in: Reading Time , February vol. 50 no. 1 2006; (p. 2) Editorial of the 50th anniversary of the periodical Reading Time.
Geoffrey Atkinson 1970 single work column
— Appears in: Reading Time : New Books for Boys and Girls , July no. 36 1970; (p. 57)
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PeriodicalNewspaper Details

ISSN: 0155-218X
ISSN: 1322-7602
Subtitle:
Subtitle varies: Reading Time : New Books for Boys and Girls 1967-1974; Reading Time : The Official Journal of the Children's Book Council of Australia, 1979-
Frequency:
1956-1971 Varying frequency 1972 - Quarterly
Range:
No 1 (1956) -
Continued by:
Reading Time Online (2013- )
Indexes:
Indices published separately and as a supplement
Note:
Accepted as the official journal of the CBC of Australia at the Annual General Meeting of October 1970. The banner was changed to reflect this from the January 1973 issue. Responsibility for production remained with the NSW Council.Commenced under new title from No. 70, January 1979 -
Note:
In issue No. 24, July 1966, Patricia Ward is noted as concluding her two year term of office as editor. In a short piece on Geoffrey Atkinson in issue No. 36, July 1970 (p. 57) the author states that '[the journal's]editorial standard was already high, thanks to the hard work of Patricia Ward who was editor for a number of years'.
Note:
In a speech give to the Children's Book Council of Australia 60th anniversary dinner, 21 September 2005, (published in Reading Time vol. 49, no. 4, November 2005, p.6-9) Maurice Saxby noted: 'The first edition in 1957 of a small bulletin, New Books for Boys and Girls was to evolve into Reading Time. It was edited by Hessie Smith; but actually she and I wrote the annotations between us.' (p.8)
Note:
Issues of the periodical from 1956 - 1962 did not contain substantial articles or reviews of Australian works. These issues have not been indexed.
Note:
Contents from 1963 indexed selectively.
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