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'"There were only eleven of them, like eleven sisters all the same age in a large family. Because it was such a very small class, they had a very small classroom, which was perched at the very top of the school - up four flights of stairs, up in the high sky, like a colony of little birds nesting on a cliff. 'Today, girls,' said Miss Renshaw, 'we shall go out into the beautiful Gardens and think about death."'
'In the Gardens they meet a poet. What follows is inexplicable, shocking, a scandal. What really happened that day? Is 'the truth' as elusive as it seems? And do the little girls know more than they are letting on?' (From the publisher's website.)
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Fairy Tale Transformation : The Pied Piper Theme in Australian Fiction
2016
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criticism
— Appears in: M/C Journal , August vol. 19 no. 4 2016; 'The traditional German tale of the Pied Piper of Hamelin inhabits an ambiguous narrative borderland, a liminal space between fact and fiction, fantasy and horror, concrete details and elusive mystery. In his study of the Pied Piper in Tradition and Innovation in Folk Literature, Wolfgang Mieder describes how manuscripts and other evidence appear to confirm the historical base of the story. Precise details from a fifteenth-century manuscript, based on earlier sources, specify that in 1284 on the 26th of June, the feast-day of Saints John and Paul, 130 children from Hamelin were led away by a piper clothed in many colours to the Koppen Hill, and there vanished (Mieder 48). Later manuscripts add details familiar today, such as a plague of rats and a broken bargain with burghers as a motive for the Piper’s actions, while in the seventeenth century the first English-language version advances what might also be the first attempt at a “rational” explanation for the children’s disappearance, claiming that they were taken to Transylvania. ' (Introduction) -
Golden Books for Children
2012
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— Appears in: The Advertiser , 4 April 2012; (p. 3) -
Crime Can Pay
2012
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— Appears in: The Sun-Herald , 12 August 2012; (p. 15) -
Tall Tales on Short List
2012
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— Appears in: The Advertiser , 7 April 2012; (p. 46) -
The Golden Day by Ursula Dubosarsky
2011
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review
— Appears in: Buzz Words , March 2011;
— Review of The Golden Day 2011 single work novel
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Under Age
2011
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review
— Appears in: The Sunday Age , 3 April 2011; (p. 21)
— Review of The Golden Day 2011 single work novel ; Swashbuckler 1995 single work children's fiction ; The Little Dragon 2011 single work picture book -
And Not a Vampire to be Seen
2011
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review
— Appears in: The Canberra Times , 16 April 2011; (p. 30)
— Review of The Golden Day 2011 single work novel ; The Understudy's Revenge 2011 single work novel -
[Review] The Golden Day
2011
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review
— Appears in: Bookseller + Publisher Magazine , March vol. 90 no. 6 2011; (p. 22)
— Review of The Golden Day 2011 single work novel -
[Review] The Golden Day
2011
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review
— Appears in: Australian Book Review , May no. 331 2011; (p. 46)
— Review of The Golden Day 2011 single work novel -
Kid Flicks
2011
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review
— Appears in: The Courier-Mail , 28 - 29 May 2011; (p. 24)
— Review of The Golden Day 2011 single work novel -
Book Talk : Supporting Australian Writers
2011
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— Appears in: Illawarra Mercury , 31 May 2011; (p. 30) -
Publishers Tap into the Experience of Youth
2011
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— Appears in: The Sydney Morning Herald , 8 July 2011; (p. 10) Young reviewers are helping shape book covers and even marketing campaigns. -
Tall Tales on Short List
2012
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column
— Appears in: The Advertiser , 7 April 2012; (p. 46) -
Crime Can Pay
2012
single work
column
— Appears in: The Sun-Herald , 12 August 2012; (p. 15) -
Golden Books for Children
2012
single work
column
— Appears in: The Advertiser , 4 April 2012; (p. 3)
Awards
- 2014 IBBY Honour Diploma — Writing
- 2012 CBCA Book of the Year Awards — Notable Book — Older Readers
- 2012 shortlisted New South Wales Premier's Literary Awards — Ethel Turner Prize for Young People's Literature
- 2012 shortlisted Davitt Award — Best Young Adult Book
- 2012 shortlisted CBCA Book of the Year Awards — Book of the Year: Older Readers
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