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Dick Alderton Dick Alderton i(A42273 works by)
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1 y separately published work icon I'll Diet Tomorrow Miriam Davis , Sydney : West Publishing Corporation , 1969 Z804938 1969 selected work poetry humour
1 y separately published work icon Little Folk Stick Down Book Dick Alderton , Dick Alderton (illustrator), Sydney : New Century Press , 1950 Z1522243 1950 single work picture book children's
1 2 y separately published work icon Rangers of the Universe Winifred Law , Sydney : New Century Press , 1945 Z955668 1945 single work children's fiction children's science fiction John Foster writes that this work and Law's Through Space to the Planets 'are of historical interest, even if they might not pass Egoff's test for true science fiction stories. The protagonists are a twenty-one-year-old spaceship pilot and his two young brothers, one of whom accidentally wrenches at the controls and send the ship into outer space. Law totally ignores every aspect of scientific possibility, for her characters, flying randomly through space, soon land safely on an unknown planet, which has breathable air and is inhabited by "queer humans" (Through Space to the Planets 23) [...] Rangers of the Universe merely lists their many exploits before their return home' ('Australian Science Fiction for Children and Adolescents: 1940-1990' 85-86).
1 y separately published work icon Koko and Katie Dick Alderton , Sydney : Frank Johnson , 1944 Z1321861 1944 single work children's fiction children's Katie and her friend Koko the koala share a rhyming day of adventure swimming, fishing and playing on a farm.
1 3 y separately published work icon Through Space to the Planets Winifred Law , Sydney : New Century Press , 1944 Z955663 1944 single work children's fiction children's science fiction

A young spaceship pilot and his two little brothers end up on a strange planet. The characters continue their adventures in Law's Rangers of the Universe.
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