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'Tormented by his mother's death, his father's rejection, and his grandparent's inability to understand him, Mark finally finds new strength and purpose in his acquaintance with a young quadriplegic with whom he shares an interest in nature.'
Source: Publisher's blurb.
Affiliation Notes
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Writing Disability in Australia:
Type of disability Quadriplegia. Type of character Primary. Point of view Third person.
Publication Details of Only Known VersionEarliest 2 Known Versions of
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- Also braille and sound recording.
Works about this Work
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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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Untitled
1992
single work
review
— Appears in: The Australian Friend , September 1992;
— Review of A Tide Flowing 1981 single work children's fiction -
Untitled
1982
single work
correspondence
— Appears in: Reading Time : The Journal of the Children's Book Council of Australia , October no. 85 1982; (p. 7-8) -
Untitled
1982
single work
review
— Appears in: Reading Time : The Journal of the Children's Book Council of Australia , January no. 82 1982; (p. 48-49)
— Review of A Tide Flowing 1981 single work children's fiction -
Untitled
1981
single work
review
— Appears in: The Canberra Times , 17 October 1981;
— Review of A Tide Flowing 1981 single work children's fiction
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Children's Book Survey
1981
single work
review
— Appears in: Australian Book Review , October no. 35 1981; (p. 31-33)
— Review of The Man in the Red Turban 1978 single work children's fiction ; A Pet for Mrs Arbuckle 1981 single work picture book ; Rooms of Paradise 1978 anthology short story ; Keith Garvey's Dinkum Little Aussies 1980 selected work poetry ; Knees 1981 single work picture book ; Once There Was a Swagman 1979 single work children's fiction ; Billy, the Most Horrible Boy in the World 1981 single work picture book ; Longtime Passing 1971 single work novel ; Fish and Bird 1981 single work picture book ; Terri 1981 single work children's fiction ; How to Demolish a Monster 1981 single work picture book ; Altar of Shulaani : An Exciting Science Fiction Adventure 1981 single work children's fiction ; The Story of a Picture Book 1981 single work criticism ; Magpie Island 1974 single work children's fiction ; There's a Dinosaur in the Park! 1980 single work picture book ; The Further Adventures of Dr A. A. A. McGurk M.D. 1981 selected work children's fiction ; Night of the Muttonbirds 1981 single work children's fiction ; A Tide Flowing 1981 single work children's fiction ; Pine-Cone Possum 1981 single work children's fiction -
Untitled
1981
single work
review
— Appears in: The Junior Bookshelf , October vol. 45 no. 5 1981;
— Review of A Tide Flowing 1981 single work children's fiction -
Untitled
1981
single work
review
— Appears in: The Canberra Times , 17 October 1981;
— Review of A Tide Flowing 1981 single work children's fiction -
Untitled
1982
single work
review
— Appears in: Reading Time : The Journal of the Children's Book Council of Australia , January no. 82 1982; (p. 48-49)
— Review of A Tide Flowing 1981 single work children's fiction -
Untitled
1992
single work
review
— Appears in: The Australian Friend , September 1992;
— Review of A Tide Flowing 1981 single work children's fiction -
Untitled
1982
single work
correspondence
— Appears in: Reading Time : The Journal of the Children's Book Council of Australia , October no. 85 1982; (p. 7-8) -
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.