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Issue Details: First known date: 1999... 1999 To the Goldfields!
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The difficulties and dramas of miners' daily lives are explored through the eyes of a nine-year-old boy whose family make a life for themselves in the diggings. (Libraries Australia record).

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    • St Leonards, North Sydney - Lane Cove area, Sydney Northern Suburbs, Sydney, New South Wales,: Allen and Unwin , 1999 .
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      Extent: 30p.
      Description: col. illus.
      ISBN: 1864484101, 6448411X (pbk.)
    • Newtown, Marrickville - Camperdown area, Sydney Southern Suburbs, Sydney, New South Wales,: Walker Books Australia , 2014 .
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      Extent: 40p.
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      • Published April 1, 2014
         

      ISBN: 9781922179883 (paperback)
      Series: y separately published work icon Walker Classics Walker Books Australia (publisher), Newtown : Walker Books Australia , 2009-2014 8552527 2009 series - publisher picture book children's Each title contains a selection of commentaries by authors, illustrators and children's literature specialists.
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Fine Focus : Rachel Tonkin, a Life in Art and Illustration Tamsin Whaley , 2016 single work review essay
— Appears in: Magpies : Talking About Books For Children , November vol. 31 no. 5 2016; (p. 4-8) 'Art, to the artist, is inevitable, but the rest of us want to know: what are the whims, accidents and resolutions that shape a career? How does each artwork come to be just like that? What colour was the telegram delivery bike in South Melbourne during World War II? And what is that chimp doing over there? Like a good biography, Rachel Tonkin's retrospective steers us through her five decades in book illustration and writing, botanical art, and fine art and sculpture, and lets us make some connections' (Introduction)
To the Goldfields by Rachel Tonkin Anastasia Gonis , 2014 single work review
— Appears in: Buzz Words , June 2014;
— Review of To the Goldfields! Rachel Tonkin , 1999 single work children's fiction
[Review] To the Goldfields! Laurie Copping , 2000 single work review
— Appears in: Reading Time : The Journal of the Children's Book Council of Australia , February vol. 44 no. 1 2000; (p. 40)
— Review of To the Goldfields! Rachel Tonkin , 1999 single work children's fiction
Australian History in Picture Books Rayma Turton , 1999 single work review
— Appears in: Magpies : Talking About Books for Children , September vol. 14 no. 4 1999; (p. 44)
— Review of To the Goldfields! Rachel Tonkin , 1999 single work children's fiction
History to be Relished Sally Harding , 1999 single work review
— Appears in: Viewpoint : On Books for Young Adults , Spring vol. 7 no. 3 1999; (p. 6-7)
— Review of Homelands and Frontiers Alan R. Tucker , 1999 single work non-fiction ; To the Goldfields! Rachel Tonkin , 1999 single work children's fiction ; Fishing for Islands : Traditional Boats and Seafarers of the Pacific John Nicholson , 1999 single work non-fiction
[Review] To the Goldfields! Laurie Copping , 2000 single work review
— Appears in: Reading Time : The Journal of the Children's Book Council of Australia , February vol. 44 no. 1 2000; (p. 40)
— Review of To the Goldfields! Rachel Tonkin , 1999 single work children's fiction
Australian History in Picture Books Rayma Turton , 1999 single work review
— Appears in: Magpies : Talking About Books for Children , September vol. 14 no. 4 1999; (p. 44)
— Review of To the Goldfields! Rachel Tonkin , 1999 single work children's fiction
History to be Relished Sally Harding , 1999 single work review
— Appears in: Viewpoint : On Books for Young Adults , Spring vol. 7 no. 3 1999; (p. 6-7)
— Review of Homelands and Frontiers Alan R. Tucker , 1999 single work non-fiction ; To the Goldfields! Rachel Tonkin , 1999 single work children's fiction ; Fishing for Islands : Traditional Boats and Seafarers of the Pacific John Nicholson , 1999 single work non-fiction
To the Goldfields by Rachel Tonkin Anastasia Gonis , 2014 single work review
— Appears in: Buzz Words , June 2014;
— Review of To the Goldfields! Rachel Tonkin , 1999 single work children's fiction
Fine Focus : Rachel Tonkin, a Life in Art and Illustration Tamsin Whaley , 2016 single work review essay
— Appears in: Magpies : Talking About Books For Children , November vol. 31 no. 5 2016; (p. 4-8) 'Art, to the artist, is inevitable, but the rest of us want to know: what are the whims, accidents and resolutions that shape a career? How does each artwork come to be just like that? What colour was the telegram delivery bike in South Melbourne during World War II? And what is that chimp doing over there? Like a good biography, Rachel Tonkin's retrospective steers us through her five decades in book illustration and writing, botanical art, and fine art and sculpture, and lets us make some connections' (Introduction)
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