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Notes
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Sound recording available.
Contents
- Dolphin Dreaming, single work short story (p. 1-14)
- Up Taree Way, single work short story (p. 15-26)
- The Dreamer, single work short story (p. 27-36)
- Mr Pemberley Checks the Gate, single work short story (p. 37-44)
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Night of Passage,
single work
short story
science fiction
The story 'tells of a young girl earning her womanhood in an eerie adventure in a strangely deserted city.'
Source: 'Dreams and Illusions Bear Literary Fruit', Canberra Times, 19 August 1989, p.27.
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Aunt Millicent,
single work
short story
An eccentric family invent for themselves a fascinating aunt.
- Castle Hawksmere, single work short story (p. 79-86)
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You Can't Keep a Unicorn,
single work
short story
fantasy
A blue heeler pup impersonates a unicorn.
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Initiation,
single work
short story
'Christobel Mattingley's very short story creates in a mere five pages a moving vignette of the frustration experienced by a young Aboriginal boy trying to find a job in a world which does not want him. So he joins the listless black crowd outside the pub watching hordes of tourists in their Range Rovers, Mercedes, and Volvos as they point their cameras at the nearby ancestral hunting grounds. It is a bitter tale.'
Source: 'Dreams and Illusions Bear Literary Fruit', Canberra Times, 19 August 1989, p.27.
- Zelda, single work short story fantasy (p. 105-112)
- Not for the Ear of Alice, single work short story (p. 113-124)
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Sleepwalkman,
single work
short story
fantasy
'A boy sits in assembly, daydreaming, while the headmaster drones on about school standards and discipline and littering and whatnot. Young Le Fevre daydreams about the school librarian who, like so many of her ilk, would rather keep all the books and tapes neatly stacked away than hand them out to messy students, and about his family and about his splendid invention which turns your mind off while you continue to look attentive. Here indeed is a schoolboy's dream.'
Source: 'Dreams and Illusions Bear Literary Fruit', Canberra Times, 19 August 1989, p.27.
- River Serpent, single work short story (p. 135-144)
- Miss Fabergé's Last Daze, single work short story fantasy (p. 145-158)
- Silent Reporter, single work short story (p. 159-172)
- The Mimics, single work short story (p. 173-184)
Publication Details of Only Known VersionEarliest 2 Known Versions of
Other Formats
- Sound recording.
Works about this Work
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Parties in Print : A Decade of Stories
2023
single work
review
— Appears in: Magpies : Talking About Books for Children , March vol. 38 no. 1 2023; (p. 4-7)
— Review of The Blue Dress : Stories 1991 anthology short story ; Beetle Soup : Australian Stories and Poems for Children 1996 anthology poetry children's fiction ; Bushland Stories 1910 selected work children's fiction ; Tales from the Wasteland : Stories from the 13th Floor 2000 anthology short story ; Love Me, Love Me Not 1993 selected work children's fiction ; Landmarks : Nine New Australian Stories 1991 anthology short story ; Before Dawn : More Tales to Read at Night 1988 anthology children's fiction ; Dream Time : New Stories by Sixteen Award-Winning Authors 1989 anthology short story -
Dream Time
1989
single work
column
— Appears in: Magpies : Talking About Books for Children , July vol. 4 no. 3 1989; (p. 23) -
Untitled
1989
single work
review
— Appears in: Reading Time : The Journal of the Children's Book Council of Australia , vol. 33 no. 3 1989; (p. 32)
— Review of Dream Time : New Stories by Sixteen Award-Winning Authors 1989 anthology short story -
Children's Books
1989
single work
review
— Appears in: Australian Book Review , September no. 114 1989; (p. 45-46)
— Review of The Smiling Madonna 1989 single work novel ; Came Back to Show You I Could Fly 1989 single work novel ; Balyet 1989 single work novel ; Dream Time : New Stories by Sixteen Award-Winning Authors 1989 anthology short story
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Children's Books
1989
single work
review
— Appears in: Australian Book Review , September no. 114 1989; (p. 45-46)
— Review of The Smiling Madonna 1989 single work novel ; Came Back to Show You I Could Fly 1989 single work novel ; Balyet 1989 single work novel ; Dream Time : New Stories by Sixteen Award-Winning Authors 1989 anthology short story -
Untitled
1989
single work
review
— Appears in: Reading Time : The Journal of the Children's Book Council of Australia , vol. 33 no. 3 1989; (p. 32)
— Review of Dream Time : New Stories by Sixteen Award-Winning Authors 1989 anthology short story -
Parties in Print : A Decade of Stories
2023
single work
review
— Appears in: Magpies : Talking About Books for Children , March vol. 38 no. 1 2023; (p. 4-7)
— Review of The Blue Dress : Stories 1991 anthology short story ; Beetle Soup : Australian Stories and Poems for Children 1996 anthology poetry children's fiction ; Bushland Stories 1910 selected work children's fiction ; Tales from the Wasteland : Stories from the 13th Floor 2000 anthology short story ; Love Me, Love Me Not 1993 selected work children's fiction ; Landmarks : Nine New Australian Stories 1991 anthology short story ; Before Dawn : More Tales to Read at Night 1988 anthology children's fiction ; Dream Time : New Stories by Sixteen Award-Winning Authors 1989 anthology short story -
Dream Time
1989
single work
column
— Appears in: Magpies : Talking About Books for Children , July vol. 4 no. 3 1989; (p. 23)