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form
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Kaboodle
ABC Television
(publisher),
( dir. Jan Sardi
et. al. )agent
1987
Australia
:
Australian Children's Television Foundation
ABC Television
,
Z1398900
1987
series - publisher
film/TV
children's
fantasy
science fiction
humour
adventure
horror
An anthology series of children's stories, mixing live-action episodes with animation, clay animation, and puppetry. The stories, aimed specifically at the under 10s, are drawn from a variety of sources, including children's books, fairy tales, myths, and original ideas. Some of the episodes have involved, for example, Snow White as a punk bikie and the seven dwarves as a motorcycle gang; a pet stegosaurus; a boy with wheels instead of toes; and Trevor the glider-plane-catching cat.
According to Patricia Edgar,
Thirty separate self-contained dramas of differing lengths were to be packaged into half-hour episodes. The project was designed to showcase new, creative talent in the television industry. Competitions were run at the Australian Film and Television School and Swinburne Institute of Technology for the best concepts suitable for inclusion in the Kaboodle package, with prizes of $1000 awarded. The Foundation sought promising but inexperienced writers, would-be producers, directors and even accountants who wanted to earn their first credit to enable them to find a future in the industry.
Source: Patricia Edgar, Bloodbath: A Memoir of Australian Television, Melbourne: Melbourne UP, 2006, pp.175-76.
Kaboodle was produced in two series, the first of which included some live-action segements, but the second of which was entirely animated.
For a full list of episodes, see Film Details.
Episode listing for Kaboodle series two courtesy of the Australian Children's Television Foundation.
Affiliation Notes
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This work is affiliated with the AustLit subset Asian-Australian Children's Literature and Publishing because it has a Japanese translation.
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- Also braille, sound recording.
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Changing Perspectives : The Implied Reader in Australian Children's Literature 1841-1994
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In Context : Some Recent Australian Writing for Adolescents
1989
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— Appears in: Children's Literature in Education , September vol. 20 no. 3 1989; (p. 151-163)
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Untitled
1984
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— Appears in: Fremantle Arts Centre Broadsheet , November - December vol. 3 no. 6 1984; (p. 2-3)
— Review of Penny Pollard's Diary 1983 single work diary -
Fiction
2004
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— Appears in: The Age , 28 February 2004; (p. 6)
— Review of Penny Pollard's Diary 1983 single work diary -
Untitled
1984
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— Appears in: Review (South Australia. School Libraries Branch) , September vol. 12 no. 3 1984; (p. 18)
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Untitled
1984
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— Appears in: The Sydney Morning Herald , 22 July 1984; (p. 3)
— Review of Penny Pollard's Diary 1983 single work diary -
Untitled
1984
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— Appears in: The Age , 21 July 1984;
— Review of Penny Pollard's Diary 1983 single work diary -
Jo Goodman Revisits the Work of Robin Klein
2005
single work
column
— Appears in: Magpies : Talking About Books for Children , March vol. 20 no. 1 2005; (p. 10-13) -
Changing Perspectives : The Implied Reader in Australian Children's Literature 1841-1994
1995
single work
criticism
— Appears in: Children's Literature in Education , March vol. 26 no. 1 1995; (p. 25-38) -
Rereading Robin Klein
2001
single work
criticism
— Appears in: Viewpoint : On Books for Young Adults , Spring vol. 9 no. 3 2001; (p. 8-11) -
Judges' Report, 1984
1984
single work
criticism
— Appears in: Reading Time : The Journal of the Children's Book Council of Australia , July no. 92 1984; (p. 6-13) -
Robin Klein on Writing for Children
1984
single work
criticism
— Appears in: Reading Time : The Journal of the Children's Book Council of Australia , July no. 92 1984; (p. 15-16)
Awards
- 2004 YABBA — Hall of Fame
- 1984 highly commended CBCA Book of the Year Awards — Book of the Year Award