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Issue Details: First known date: 2017... 2017 Blossom
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'Lottie is excited when a lost little girl, Blossom, arrives on her doorstep. Lottie, who only has Uncle Bobby in the world, has always wanted a sister. But Blossom isn’t like other kids. She doesn’t speak and is obsessed with her flower, refusing to go anywhere without it. But everything changes when Blossom gets sick, and she is taken away. Lottie, with the help of her friends, must do whatever it takes to rescue her.' (Publication summary)

Affiliation Notes

  • Writing Disability in Australia:

    Type of disability Mutism.
    Type of character Primary.
    Point of view Third person.

Publication Details of Only Known VersionEarliest 2 Known Versions of

    • Norwood, Norwood, Payneham & St Peters area, Adelaide - North / North East, Adelaide, South Australia,: Omnibus Books , 2017 .
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      Extent: 90p.
      Note/s:
      • Published July 2017
      ISBN: 9781742991641
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  • Also dyslexic edition
  • Also large print.
  • Also braille.
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Works about this Work

[Review] Blossom Sue Osborne , 2017 single work review
— Appears in: Magpies : Talking About Books for Children , September vol. 32 no. 4 2017; (p. 37-38)
— Review of Blossom Tamsin Janu , 2017 single work children's fiction

'Lottie is reading in bed one night when a strange girls appears on her front doorstep. The girl does not eat, and she does not speak - communicating with a series of buzzing and clicking noises. The police cannot help, no-one has any idea where she has come from. Lottie and uncle Bobby take her in. Despite all attempts to live normally, it's not long before things become even stranger. It appears that Blossom is not human at all.' (Introduction)
[Review] Blossom Sue Osborne , 2017 single work review
— Appears in: Magpies : Talking About Books for Children , September vol. 32 no. 4 2017; (p. 37-38)
— Review of Blossom Tamsin Janu , 2017 single work children's fiction

'Lottie is reading in bed one night when a strange girls appears on her front doorstep. The girl does not eat, and she does not speak - communicating with a series of buzzing and clicking noises. The police cannot help, no-one has any idea where she has come from. Lottie and uncle Bobby take her in. Despite all attempts to live normally, it's not long before things become even stranger. It appears that Blossom is not human at all.' (Introduction)
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