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Issue Details: First known date: 1981... 1981 A Tide Flowing
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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

  • 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

    • New York (City), New York (State),
      c
      United States of America (USA),
      c
      Americas,
      :
      Atheneum ,
      1981 .
      Extent: 156p.
      ISBN: 068950196X
    • Port Melbourne, South Melbourne - Port Melbourne area, Melbourne - Inner South, Melbourne, Victoria,: Mammoth , 1989 .
      Extent: 156p.
      ISBN: 863300090 (pbk.)
Alternative title: Pojken och albatrossen
Language: Swedish
    • Stockholm,
      c
      Sweden,
      c
      Scandinavia, Western Europe, Europe,
      :
      Sjostrands ,
      1983 .
      Extent: 121p.
      ISBN: 9175740621

Other Formats

  • Also braille and sound recording.

Works about this Work

y separately published work icon Elements of Carnival and the Carnivalesque in Contemporary Australian Children's Literature B. F. Haynes , 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.

Untitled Dawn Richardson , 1992 single work review
— Appears in: The Australian Friend , September 1992;

— Review of A Tide Flowing Joan Phipson , 1981 single work children's fiction
Untitled Eleanor Stodart , 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 Laurie Copping , 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 Joan Phipson , 1981 single work children's fiction
Untitled Eleanor Stodart , 1981 single work review
— Appears in: The Canberra Times , 17 October 1981;

— Review of A Tide Flowing Joan Phipson , 1981 single work children's fiction
Children's Book Survey Margaret Dunkle , 1981 single work review
— Appears in: Australian Book Review , October no. 35 1981; (p. 31-33)

— Review of The Man in the Red Turban David Martin , 1978 single work children's fiction ; A Pet for Mrs Arbuckle Gwenda Smyth , 1981 single work picture book ; Rooms of Paradise 1978 anthology short story ; Keith Garvey's Dinkum Little Aussies Keith Garvey , 1980 selected work poetry ; Knees Doug MacLeod , 1981 single work picture book ; Once There Was a Swagman Hesba Brinsmead , 1979 single work children's fiction ; Billy, the Most Horrible Boy in the World Michael Dugan , 1981 single work picture book ; Longtime Passing Hesba Brinsmead , 1971 single work novel ; Fish and Bird Jiri Tibor Novak , 1981 single work picture book ; Terri Dianne Bates , 1981 single work children's fiction ; How to Demolish a Monster Quentin Hole , 1981 single work picture book ; Altar of Shulaani : An Exciting Science Fiction Adventure Margaret Pearce , 1981 single work children's fiction ; The Story of a Picture Book Rodney David Martin , 1981 single work criticism ; Magpie Island Colin Thiele , 1974 single work children's fiction ; There's a Dinosaur in the Park! Rodney David Martin , 1980 single work picture book ; The Further Adventures of Dr A. A. A. McGurk M.D. Osmar E. White , 1981 selected work children's fiction ; Night of the Muttonbirds Mary Small , 1981 single work children's fiction ; A Tide Flowing Joan Phipson , 1981 single work children's fiction ; Pine-Cone Possum Jean Chapman , 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 Joan Phipson , 1981 single work children's fiction
Untitled Eleanor Stodart , 1981 single work review
— Appears in: The Canberra Times , 17 October 1981;

— Review of A Tide Flowing Joan Phipson , 1981 single work children's fiction
Untitled Laurie Copping , 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 Joan Phipson , 1981 single work children's fiction
Untitled Dawn Richardson , 1992 single work review
— Appears in: The Australian Friend , September 1992;

— Review of A Tide Flowing Joan Phipson , 1981 single work children's fiction
Untitled Eleanor Stodart , 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 separately published work icon Elements of Carnival and the Carnivalesque in Contemporary Australian Children's Literature B. F. Haynes , 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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