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Issue Details: First known date: 1994... 1994 Way Home
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AbstractHistoryArchive Description

A young boy who lives in a hole in a wall in a big city makes a dangerous night trip to bring a stray cat back to his little cell for company.

Reading Australia

Reading Australia

This work has Reading Australia teaching resources.

Unit Suitable For

AC: Year 6 (NSW Stage 3)

General Capabilities

Critical and creative thinking, Ethical understanding, Literacy, Personal and social

Publication Details of Only Known VersionEarliest 2 Known Versions of

    • Milsons Point, North Sydney - Lane Cove area, Sydney Northern Suburbs, Sydney, New South Wales,: Random House , 1994 .
      Extent: 30p.
      Edition info: A Mark Macleod book
      Description: col. illus.
      ISBN: 0862645417, 0091827299
    • New York (City), New York (State),
      c
      United States of America (USA),
      c
      Americas,
      :
      Crown Publishers ,
      ca. 1994 .
      Extent: 1 v. (unpaged)p.
      Edition info: 1st US edition.
      Description: col. illus.
      ISBN: 0517599090 (trade)
    • London,
      c
      England,
      c
      c
      United Kingdom (UK),
      c
      Western Europe, Europe,
      :
      Andersen ,
      1994 .
      Extent: 30p.
      ISBN: 0862645417
    • Sydney, New South Wales,: Random House Australia , 1995 .
      image of person or book cover 7357767348761406787.jpg
      Image courtesy of publisher's website.
      Extent: 32p.
      Edition info: Red Fox edition; A Mark Macleod book.
      Description: illus.
      ISBN: 0091829186 (pbk.)
Alternative title: Hjemvejen
Language: Danish
    • Copenhagen,
      c
      Denmark,
      c
      Scandinavia, Western Europe, Europe,
      :
      Agertofts ,
      1996 .
      Extent: 32p.

Other Formats

  • Also sound recording.

Works about this Work

[Review] Way Home Jean Yates , 2006 single work review
— Appears in: Books from Our Backyard : Must-Read Books from Queensland 2006; (p. 78)

— Review of Way Home Libby Hathorn , 1994 single work picture book
Schmalz is as Schmalz Does: Sentimentality and Picture Books Clare Bradford , 1997 single work criticism
— Appears in: Papers : Explorations into Children's Literature , December vol. 7 no. 3 1997; (p. 17-32)

Bradford is concerned here with the tendency to treat the terms 'sentimentality' and 'sentimental' as universal and unchanging, arguing instead that notions of sentimentality are largely culturally-dependent and furthermore, are often attached to the mythmaking practices associated with national identity (17). According to Richard White, national mythologies and cultural sentimentalism are 'invented within a framework of modern Western ideas about science, nature, race, society and nationality' (17). After a close analyses of the listed texts, Bradford contends that 'ideas about sentimentality are inextricably connected with assumptions of the patriarchal relations which are still dominant within the institutions and practices of contemporary societies' (26).

An Illustrated Life: A Profile of Gregory Rogers Sue Page , 1996 single work column
— Appears in: The Lu Rees Archives Notes, Books and Authors , no. 18 1996; (p. 20-25) Reading Time : The Journal of the Children's Book Council of Australia , May vol. 41 no. 2 1997; (p. 14-16)
International Award Goes to an Australian Robyn Sheahan-Bright , 1995 single work column
— Appears in: Magpies : Talking About Books for Children , July vol. 10 no. 3 1995; (p. 36-37)
Award Winning Book has Bitter Sequel Terry O'Connor , 1995 single work column
— Appears in: The Courier-Mail , 22 July 1995; (p. 11)
[Review] Way Home Linnet Hunter , 1994 single work review
— Appears in: Reading Time : The Journal of the Children's Book Council of Australia , August vol. 38 no. 3 1994; (p. 27)

— Review of Way Home Libby Hathorn , 1994 single work picture book
[Review] Way Home Jean Yates , 2006 single work review
— Appears in: Books from Our Backyard : Must-Read Books from Queensland 2006; (p. 78)

— Review of Way Home Libby Hathorn , 1994 single work picture book
[Review] Way Home Josephine Schaefer , 1994 single work review
— Appears in: Fiction Focus : New Titles for Teenagers , vol. 8 no. 2 1994; (p. 20)

— Review of Way Home Libby Hathorn , 1994 single work picture book
Ten Little Australians for Middle-Aged Children Heather Scutter , 1995 single work review
— Appears in: Australian Women's Book Review , November vol. 7 no. 3-4 1995; (p. 10-11)

— Review of Foxspell Gillian Rubinstein , 1994 single work novel ; The White Guinea-Pig Ursula Dubosarsky , 1994 single work novel ; Somewhere Around the Corner Jackie French , 1994 single work children's fiction ; Jake and Pete Gillian Rubinstein , 1995 selected work children's fiction ; Way Home Libby Hathorn , 1994 single work picture book ; Featherbys Mary Steele , 1993 single work novel ; A Bit of a Hitch Mary Steele , 1995 selected work children's fiction ; The Magic Caravan Paty Marshall-Stace , 1995 single work children's fiction ; Ark in the Park Wendy Orr , 1994 single work children's fiction ; Power and Glory Emily Rodda , 1994 single work picture book ; The White Guinea-Pig Ursula Dubosarsky , 1994 single work novel
From the Word Go : Books for Younger Readers Stephen Matthews , 1994 single work review
— Appears in: Australian Book Review , May no. 160 1994; (p. 63-64)

— Review of Phoenix Nan Hunt , 1994 single work picture book ; Black Belt Nicole Plüss , 1994 single work novel ; The Prince of Kelvin Mall Michael Stephens , 1994 single work children's fiction ; Way Home Libby Hathorn , 1994 single work picture book
Award Winning Book has Bitter Sequel Terry O'Connor , 1995 single work column
— Appears in: The Courier-Mail , 22 July 1995; (p. 11)
International Award Goes to an Australian Robyn Sheahan-Bright , 1995 single work column
— Appears in: Magpies : Talking About Books for Children , July vol. 10 no. 3 1995; (p. 36-37)
Postmodern Picture Books Michele Lonsdale , 1994 single work criticism
— Appears in: Viewpoint : On Books for Young Adults , Spring vol. 2 no. 3 1994; (p. 24-25)
An Illustrated Life: A Profile of Gregory Rogers Sue Page , 1996 single work column
— Appears in: The Lu Rees Archives Notes, Books and Authors , no. 18 1996; (p. 20-25) Reading Time : The Journal of the Children's Book Council of Australia , May vol. 41 no. 2 1997; (p. 14-16)
Schmalz is as Schmalz Does: Sentimentality and Picture Books Clare Bradford , 1997 single work criticism
— Appears in: Papers : Explorations into Children's Literature , December vol. 7 no. 3 1997; (p. 17-32)

Bradford is concerned here with the tendency to treat the terms 'sentimentality' and 'sentimental' as universal and unchanging, arguing instead that notions of sentimentality are largely culturally-dependent and furthermore, are often attached to the mythmaking practices associated with national identity (17). According to Richard White, national mythologies and cultural sentimentalism are 'invented within a framework of modern Western ideas about science, nature, race, society and nationality' (17). After a close analyses of the listed texts, Bradford contends that 'ideas about sentimentality are inextricably connected with assumptions of the patriarchal relations which are still dominant within the institutions and practices of contemporary societies' (26).

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