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Issue Details: First known date: 1913... 1913 The Magic Button
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Brother and sister, Dot and Dash, acquire a rundown dairy farm and with the help of a magic button transform it into a show place, all except the farm goat - which eats the magic button.

Notes

  • Maureen Walsh cites the illustrated headpiece in the Sydney Mail for the first chapter of this story as one of the first appearances of May Gibbs' gumnut babies.
    Source: May Gibbs : Mother of the Gumnuts by Maureen Walsh (Angus and Robertson, 1985 p. 95)

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First known date: 1913
Serialised by: The Sydney Mail 1860-1938 newspaper (2466 issues)
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Published in serialised format in the Sydney Mail in eight weekly instalments between 10 December 1913 and 28 January 1914.
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Full text links to Trove's list of instalments; please note that some issues might be missing.
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