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Adaptations
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form
y
Say a Little Prayer
( dir. Richard Lowenstein
)
Australia
:
Flying Films
Beyond Films
,
1992
7909635
1992
single work
film/TV
An adaptation of Robin Klein's novel about the friendship between a lonely young boy and an older girl hiding a troubling secret.
Affiliation Notes
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This work is affiliated with the AustLit subset Asian-Australian Children's Literature and Publishing because it has a Japanese translation.
Contents
- Introduction, single work criticism
Publication Details of Only Known VersionEarliest 2 Known Versions of
Other Formats
- Also braille, sound recording.
Works about this Work
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A Voyage around My Author
2022
single work
review
— Appears in: Magpies : Talking About Books for Children , March vol. 37 no. 1 2022; (p. 12-15)
— Review of Came Back to Show You I Could Fly 1989 single work novel ; Halfway Across the Galaxy and Turn Left 1985 single work novel ; Hating Alison Ashley 1984 single work novel ; People Might Hear You 1983 single work children's fiction ; Seeing Things 1993 single work novel ; All in the Blue Unclouded Weather 1991 single work novel -
On a Quest for Their Better Selves
2017
single work
essay
— Appears in: The Weekend Australian , 13 May 2017; (p. 26) 'Robert Newton is a Melbourne-based firefighter and author. Mr Romanov’s Garden in the Sky (Penguin, 218pp, $17.99) begins as a gritty reimagining of his experience 25 years ago when called to an emergency in a Melbourne housing commission tower. The sight of a small girl in pyjamas waiting beside her drug-overdosed mother has haunted him since, and is now re-created in 13-year-old Lexie.' (Introduction) -
All The Bells Rang
2017
single work
essay
— Appears in: Sydney Review of Books , March 2017; -
y
Elements of Carnival and the Carnivalesque in Contemporary Australian Children's Literature
Sydney
:
2009
27495428
2009
single work
thesis
'This thesis discusses the influence of elements of Bakhtinian camivalesque in selected contemporary Australian children’s literature. Many of the Bakhtinian ideas are centred on the work of Franqois Rabelais, particularly his five books collectively entitled Gargantua and Pantagruel. Aspects of the complex field of Bakhtinian camivalesque that have been considered include: attitudes to authority, the grotesque body and its working, the importance of feasting and the associated concepts of bodily functioning, customs in relation to food, and ritual and specific language such as the use of curses and oaths. The role of humour and the manifest forms this takes within carnival are intrinsic and are discussed at some length. These central tenets are explored in two ways: first, in relation to their connection and use within the narrative structures of a selection of books short listed (and thus critically acclaimed) by the Australian Children’s Book Council from the early 1980s to the early 2000s, and second, by means of contrast, to the commercially popular but generally less critically acclaimed works of other Australian writers such as Paul Jennings and Andy Griffiths. The thesis concludes by considering the ways in which camivalesque freedom is encouraged through and by new media.'
Source: Abstract.
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Jo Goodman Revisits the Work of Robin Klein
2005
single work
column
— Appears in: Magpies : Talking About Books for Children , March vol. 20 no. 1 2005; (p. 10-13)
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Untitled
1990
single work
review
— Appears in: Magpies : Talking About Books for Children , March vol. 5 no. 1 1990; (p. 32-33)
— Review of Came Back to Show You I Could Fly 1989 single work novel -
Children's Books
1989
single work
review
— Appears in: Australian Book Review , September no. 114 1989; (p. 45-46)
— Review of The Smiling Madonna 1989 single work novel ; Came Back to Show You I Could Fly 1989 single work novel ; Balyet 1989 single work novel ; Dream Time : New Stories by Sixteen Award-Winning Authors 1989 anthology short story -
Myths of Fearful Forests, Sea and Shore
1989
single work
review
— Appears in: The Advertiser , 11 November 1989;
— Review of Came Back to Show You I Could Fly 1989 single work novel ; Against the Odds 1989 selected work children's fiction ; The Red King 1989 single work novel -
Focus on Females With Character
1989
single work
review
— Appears in: The Australian Magazine , 4-5 November 1989; (p. 6)
— Review of Came Back to Show You I Could Fly 1989 single work novel ; Merryll of the Stones 1989 single work novel -
Emphasis on Fantasy for Adolescent Readers
1990
single work
review
— Appears in: The Canberra Times , 28 July 1990; (p. B8)
— Review of Came Back to Show You I Could Fly 1989 single work novel ; Merryll of the Stones 1989 single work novel -
Fairytale Realism - Robin Klein's Came Back to Show You I Could Fly
1993
single work
criticism
— Appears in: Reading Time : The Journal of the Children's Book Council of Australia , May vol. 37 no. 2 1993; (p. 5-6) -
Jo Goodman Revisits the Work of Robin Klein
2005
single work
column
— Appears in: Magpies : Talking About Books for Children , March vol. 20 no. 1 2005; (p. 10-13) -
Representations of Mothers and Mothering in Contemporary Australian Children's Literature
1997
single work
criticism
— Appears in: La Trobe Library Journal , Spring no. 60 1997; (p. 97-107) -
Responding to Realism in Robin Klein's Came Back to Show You I Could Fly
1993
single work
criticism
— Appears in: Australian Children's Literature : Finding a Voice 1993; (p. 185-196) -
Teenage Stories of the Streets
1989
single work
column
biography
— Appears in: The Age , 21 October 1989; (p. 10)
Awards
- 1992 winner COOL Award — Fiction for Older Readers
- 1990 winner CBCA Book of the Year Awards — Book of the Year: Older Readers
- 1989 winner Human Rights Awards