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'A novel featuring the protagonist, Claudia, an imaginative girl with literary ambitions who, after getting her picture in the local paper, is pursued by a stranger she takes for one of her harassed and unemployed father's creditors, upon which she tries to save him from discovery and ruin.' (The Bibliography of Australasian Judaica 1788- 2008, 15)

Notes

  • Prequel to How to Be a Great Detective.

Publication Details of Only Known VersionEarliest 2 Known Versions of

    • Victoria,: Puffin , 1999 .
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      Image courtesy of Puffin books.
      Extent: 127p.
      ISBN: 0141302089
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y separately published work icon How to Be a Great Detective Ursula Dubosarsky , Camberwell : Puffin , 2004 Z1132782 2004 single work children's fiction children's detective humour 'Sequel to My Father is Not a Comedian! in which, on playing 'I spy', Claudia's sister Griselda spies something beginning with 'B', namely blood, which leads them to think of murder and to look for clues to find a possible maniac on the loose and perhaps another murder in train.' (The Bibliography of Australasian Judaica 1788- 2008, 15)
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Know the Author : Ursula Dubosarsky Robyn Sheahan-Bright , 2002 single work column
— Appears in: Magpies : Talking About Books for Children , November vol. 17 no. 5 2002; (p. 10-13)
'My Father is Not a Comedian' by Ursula Dubosarsky Nicola Robinson , 1999 single work review
— Appears in: Viewpoint : On Books for Young Adults , Autumn vol. 7 no. 1 1999; (p. 23)
— Review of My Father is Not a Comedian! Ursula Dubosarsky , 1999 single work children's fiction
Writing for Life Ruth Starke , 1999 single work review
— Appears in: Australian Book Review , September no. 214 1999; (p. 42-43)
— Review of My Father is Not a Comedian! Ursula Dubosarsky , 1999 single work children's fiction ; Cockawun and Cockatoo Christobel Mattingley , 1999 single work children's fiction
Untitled Joan Zahnleiter , 1999 single work review
— Appears in: Magpies : Talking About Books for Children , July vol. 14 no. 3 1999; (p. 33)
— Review of My Father is Not a Comedian! Ursula Dubosarsky , 1999 single work children's fiction
Untitled Judithe Hall , 1999 single work review
— Appears in: Reading Time : The Journal of the Children's Book Council of Australia , November vol. 43 no. 4 1999; (p. 33)
— Review of My Father is Not a Comedian! Ursula Dubosarsky , 1999 single work children's fiction
Untitled Judithe Hall , 1999 single work review
— Appears in: Reading Time : The Journal of the Children's Book Council of Australia , November vol. 43 no. 4 1999; (p. 33)
— Review of My Father is Not a Comedian! Ursula Dubosarsky , 1999 single work children's fiction
Untitled Joan Zahnleiter , 1999 single work review
— Appears in: Magpies : Talking About Books for Children , July vol. 14 no. 3 1999; (p. 33)
— Review of My Father is Not a Comedian! Ursula Dubosarsky , 1999 single work children's fiction
Untitled Kerry White , 1998 single work review
— Appears in: Bookphilenewsletter , August no. 3 1998;
— Review of My Father is Not a Comedian! Ursula Dubosarsky , 1999 single work children's fiction
Writing for Life Ruth Starke , 1999 single work review
— Appears in: Australian Book Review , September no. 214 1999; (p. 42-43)
— Review of My Father is Not a Comedian! Ursula Dubosarsky , 1999 single work children's fiction ; Cockawun and Cockatoo Christobel Mattingley , 1999 single work children's fiction
'My Father is Not a Comedian' by Ursula Dubosarsky Nicola Robinson , 1999 single work review
— Appears in: Viewpoint : On Books for Young Adults , Autumn vol. 7 no. 1 1999; (p. 23)
— Review of My Father is Not a Comedian! Ursula Dubosarsky , 1999 single work children's fiction
Know the Author : Ursula Dubosarsky Robyn Sheahan-Bright , 2002 single work column
— Appears in: Magpies : Talking About Books for Children , November vol. 17 no. 5 2002; (p. 10-13)
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