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A group of children set up a club to pursue their favourite project: keeping vandals out of the nearby national park.
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Also published in braille and sound recording formats.
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- Also braille and sound recording.
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Relationships to the Bush in Nan Chauncy’s Early Novels for Children
2014
single work
criticism
— Appears in: JASAL , vol. 14 no. 3 2014; 'In the 1950s, bush settings were strong favourites for children’s novels, which often took the form of a generic mix of adventure story and bildungsroman, novel of individual development. In using bush settings to take up the environmental concerns of the period, the early novels of Wrightson and Chauncy added a new dimension to traditional settler images of rural life as central to Australian national identity. The bush is loved for its beauty and revered as a source of knowledge and character building, rather than being represented as an antagonist which must be overcome or domesticated. In this respect, Chauncy in particular anticipates later ecological concerns in writing for children.' (Publication abstract) -
Anna Beth McCormack : Hartnett, Jinks and Honey
2010
single work
column
— Appears in: The Lu Rees Archives Notes, Books and Authors , no. 32 2010; (p. 19) -
Patricia Wrightson : At the Edge of Australian Vision
1981
single work
criticism
biography
— Appears in: Innocence and Experience : Essays on Contemporary Australian Children's Writers 1981; (p. 99-130)
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Anna Beth McCormack : Hartnett, Jinks and Honey
2010
single work
column
— Appears in: The Lu Rees Archives Notes, Books and Authors , no. 32 2010; (p. 19) -
Patricia Wrightson : At the Edge of Australian Vision
1981
single work
criticism
biography
— Appears in: Innocence and Experience : Essays on Contemporary Australian Children's Writers 1981; (p. 99-130) -
Relationships to the Bush in Nan Chauncy’s Early Novels for Children
2014
single work
criticism
— Appears in: JASAL , vol. 14 no. 3 2014; 'In the 1950s, bush settings were strong favourites for children’s novels, which often took the form of a generic mix of adventure story and bildungsroman, novel of individual development. In using bush settings to take up the environmental concerns of the period, the early novels of Wrightson and Chauncy added a new dimension to traditional settler images of rural life as central to Australian national identity. The bush is loved for its beauty and revered as a source of knowledge and character building, rather than being represented as an antagonist which must be overcome or domesticated. In this respect, Chauncy in particular anticipates later ecological concerns in writing for children.' (Publication abstract)
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