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Issue Details: First known date: 2007... 2007 The Wish
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'When a small girl, Little Pumpkin, moves with her family from Shanghai to Australia her cousin Betty is assigned to look after her at school. However, Betty resents having to perform this task so translates everything as nonsense. Little Pumpkin worries that she will never learn. When the teacher confiscates the tiny embroidered bag that Nai Nai (grandmother) has given her for good luck Little Pumpkin is reduced to tears of despair. Fortunately, another Chinese girl offers to translate for Little Pumpkin and assures her that she will be soon speaking English.' (Source: Author's blog)

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  • This work is affiliated with the AustLit subset Asian-Australian Children's Literature and Publishing because it contains Chinese characters.

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    y separately published work icon The Sunday Age 29 April 2007 Z1379254 2007 newspaper issue 2007 pg. 13
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'Penny has just moved to Australia from China. She can hardly speak English. She doesn't know anyone. And horrible cousin Betty is determined to make life at her new school totally miserable. Penny retreats to the art room and her passion: drawing. But there she makes an unusual friend: Mr Whitehorse, who is deaf. And her grandmother gives her a magic Chinese pouch. Now Penny has just one wish to make things right.'

Source: City of Stirling Library
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Everyone Knows What it's Like to Need a Friend 2007 single work review
— Appears in: The Sunday Age , 6 May 2007; (p. 22)
— Review of The Wish Sally Rippin , 2007 single work children's fiction
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