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Issue Details: First known date: 2009... 2009 Just One Wish
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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

Notes

  • Also translated into Chinese (not traced).

Affiliation Notes

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

  • Writing Disability in Australia

    Type of disability

    Deafness.
    Type of character Secondary.
    Point of view First person.

Publication Details of Only Known VersionEarliest 2 Known Versions of

    • Camberwell, Camberwell - Kew area, Melbourne - Inner South, Melbourne, Victoria,: Puffin , 2009 .
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      Extent: 96p.
      Note/s:
      • Publication date: May 2009.
      ISBN: 9780143304463 (pbk.)
      Series: y separately published work icon Aussie Chomps Puffin (publisher), Ringwood Camberwell : Puffin , 2003-2012 Z1353421 2003 series - publisher
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The Wish Sally Rippin , 2007 single work children's fiction children's
— Appears in: The Sunday Age , 29 April 2007; (p. 13) '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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Works about this Work

[Review] Just One Wish Patricia Halsall , 2009 single work review
— Appears in: Magpies : Talking About Books for Children , July vol. 24 no. 3 2009; (p. 36)
— Review of Just One Wish Sally Rippin , 2009 single work children's fiction
[Review] Just One Wish Patricia Halsall , 2009 single work review
— Appears in: Magpies : Talking About Books for Children , July vol. 24 no. 3 2009; (p. 36)
— Review of Just One Wish Sally Rippin , 2009 single work children's fiction
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