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Issue Details: First known date: 1988... 1988 Mallyroot's Pub at Misery Ponds
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'Misery Ponds is a wretched place, somewhere in the flat, empty outback in the middle of Australia. The Mallyroot family have lived in the pub there ever since Great-Grandpa Ebenezer built it 100 years ago. When Ma & Pa decide to rake up customers, things don't look too promising. Enter Hiram B Rumbleburger & his li'l wife Bluebird, from the good old US of A, who show Ma & Pa the way to become part of Australia's booming tourist industry.' Their first visitors are a group of Japanese kite flyers.(Source: Back cover)

Affiliation Notes

  • Associated with the AustLit subset Australian Literary Responses to 'Asia' as the work contains Japanese characters.
  • This work is affiliated with the AustLit subset Asian-Australian Children's Literature and Publishing because it has Japanese characters.

Publication Details of Only Known VersionEarliest 2 Known Versions of

    • Ringwood, Ringwood - Croydon - Kilsyth area, Melbourne - East, Melbourne, Victoria,: Puffin , 1990 .
      Extent: 112p.
      Description: illus.
      ISBN: 0140344519

Other Formats

  • Also braille.Also sound recording.

Works about this Work

Untitled Kathy Forward , 1991 single work review
— Appears in: Reading Time : The Journal of the Children's Book Council of Australia , vol. 35 no. 2 1991; (p. 24)

— Review of Mallyroot's Pub at Misery Ponds Mary Steele , 1988 single work children's fiction
Untitled Amanda Swaney , 1989 single work review
— Appears in: Magpies : Talking About Books for Children , July vol. 4 no. 3 1989; (p. 31)

— Review of Mallyroot's Pub at Misery Ponds Mary Steele , 1988 single work children's fiction
Flatten the Magpies, Starve the Crows, This Tale is Bonzer, Mate Ralph Elliott , 1988 single work review
— Appears in: The Canberra Times , 17 September 1988; (p. B4)

— Review of Mallyroot's Pub at Misery Ponds Mary Steele , 1988 single work children's fiction ; The New Adventures of Alice in Rainforest Land Nadine Amadio , 1988 single work children's fiction
Untitled Kathy Forward , 1991 single work review
— Appears in: Reading Time : The Journal of the Children's Book Council of Australia , vol. 35 no. 2 1991; (p. 24)

— Review of Mallyroot's Pub at Misery Ponds Mary Steele , 1988 single work children's fiction
Untitled Amanda Swaney , 1989 single work review
— Appears in: Magpies : Talking About Books for Children , July vol. 4 no. 3 1989; (p. 31)

— Review of Mallyroot's Pub at Misery Ponds Mary Steele , 1988 single work children's fiction
Flatten the Magpies, Starve the Crows, This Tale is Bonzer, Mate Ralph Elliott , 1988 single work review
— Appears in: The Canberra Times , 17 September 1988; (p. B4)

— Review of Mallyroot's Pub at Misery Ponds Mary Steele , 1988 single work children's fiction ; The New Adventures of Alice in Rainforest Land Nadine Amadio , 1988 single work children's fiction
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