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Issue Details: First known date: 1969... 1969 A Taste for Blue Ribbons
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Adaptations

form y separately published work icon A Taste for Blue Ribbons Eugene Lumbers , ( dir. Keith Wilkes ) Melbourne : ABC Television , 1973 Z924081 1973 series - publisher film/TV young adult Adapted from Eugene Lumbers's novel, which is itself based on a popular ABC radio serial, A Taste for Blue Ribbons concerns the Byrne family from Victoria, who are struggling to keep their riding school, Blue Ribbons, afloat. The narrative also involves a mysterious five-legged foal.

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Notes:
Adapted by the author from his ABC radio serial of the same name
    • Adelaide, South Australia,: Rigby , 1969 .
      Extent: 236p.
      Description: illus.
      Reprinted: 1973
    • Adelaide, South Australia,: Rigby , 1975 .
      Extent: 236p.
      ISBN: 0851798896

Works about this Work

Australiana, Fiction Eve Pownall , 1970 single work review
— Appears in: Reading Time : New Books for Boys and Girls , September no. 37 1970; (p. 39-44)

— Review of Chinaman's Reef is Ours Ivan Southall , 1970 single work novel ; House By the Water Nance Donkin , 1969 single work children's fiction ; The Haunted Night Joan Phipson , 1970 single work children's fiction ; A Taste for Blue Ribbons Eugene Lumbers , 1969 single work novel ; Hustler's Gold Pat Spencer , 1969 single work children's fiction ; The Mischievous Crow : Stories of the Aborigines 1969 anthology prose ; Let's Call Him Blinky Bill Carol Odell , 1970 single work children's fiction ; Wild Colonial Boys : Ned Kelly Frank Clune , 1970 single work biography ; The Zoopie Zats Helen Hughes , 1969 single work poetry
Australiana, Fiction Eve Pownall , 1970 single work review
— Appears in: Reading Time : New Books for Boys and Girls , September no. 37 1970; (p. 39-44)

— Review of Chinaman's Reef is Ours Ivan Southall , 1970 single work novel ; House By the Water Nance Donkin , 1969 single work children's fiction ; The Haunted Night Joan Phipson , 1970 single work children's fiction ; A Taste for Blue Ribbons Eugene Lumbers , 1969 single work novel ; Hustler's Gold Pat Spencer , 1969 single work children's fiction ; The Mischievous Crow : Stories of the Aborigines 1969 anthology prose ; Let's Call Him Blinky Bill Carol Odell , 1970 single work children's fiction ; Wild Colonial Boys : Ned Kelly Frank Clune , 1970 single work biography ; The Zoopie Zats Helen Hughes , 1969 single work poetry
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