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y separately published work icon Windmill at Magpie Creek single work   children's fiction   children's  
Issue Details: First known date: 1971... 1971 Windmill at Magpie Creek
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'Tim, a young Australian boy, loves the windmill on his father's farm, but is scared to climb it.

When Tim's father injures his back the windmill's future is threatened unless Tim can conquer his fear and brave the magpies too that haunt the top of the windmill.'

Source: Publisher's blurb.

Adaptations

form y separately published work icon The Windmill Carolyn Burns , ( dir. Colin Grubb ) Australia : Australian Broadcasting Corporation , 1991 7413291 1991 single work film/TV

Notes

  • Broadcast on ABC Radio (1976, 1977) and ABC television (1992).

Publication Details of Only Known VersionEarliest 2 Known Versions of

    • Leicester, Leicestershire,
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      England,
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      United Kingdom (UK),
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      Western Europe, Europe,      :       Brockhampton Press ,       1971 .
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      Extent: 88p.
      Description: illus.
      Reprinted: 1972 , 1974
      ISBN: 0340103892
    • London,
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      England,
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      United Kingdom (UK),
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      Western Europe, Europe,      :       Sydney, New South Wales,: Hodder and Stoughton ,       1971 .
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      Extent: 88p.
      Description: illus.
      ISBN: 0340103892
Alternative title: Vindmøllen
Language: Danish
    • Copenhagen,
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      Denmark,
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      Scandinavia, Western Europe, Europe,      :       Branner ,       1974 .
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      Extent: 89p.
      Description: illus.
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Other Formats

  • Also braille, sound recording.
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Works about this Work

Children's Book Council of Australia 1972 Judges' Report 1972 single work criticism
— Appears in: Reading Time : New Books for Boys and Girls , July no. 44 1972; (p. 8-10)
Untitled Anne Bower Ingram , 1971 single work review
— Appears in: Reading Time : New Books for Boys and Girls , October no. 41 1971; (p. 53-54)
— Review of Windmill at Magpie Creek Christobel Mattingley , 1971 single work children's fiction
Untitled Anne Bower Ingram , 1971 single work review
— Appears in: Reading Time : New Books for Boys and Girls , October no. 41 1971; (p. 53-54)
— Review of Windmill at Magpie Creek Christobel Mattingley , 1971 single work children's fiction
Children's Book Council of Australia 1972 Judges' Report 1972 single work criticism
— Appears in: Reading Time : New Books for Boys and Girls , July no. 44 1972; (p. 8-10)
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