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y separately published work icon Koala Lou single work   picture book   children's  
Issue Details: First known date: 1987... 1987 Koala Lou
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Exhibitions

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Adaptations

Koala Lou Verity Laughton , 1997 single work musical theatre

Notes

  • Cited by Parent Magazine, US, as one of the 10 best books of the year.
  • Featured by the Little BIG Book Club, South Australia, November 2008.
  • Number 31 on the Better Reading's 2022 Top 50 Kids Books

    Number 48 on the Better Reading's Top 50 Kids Books 2023

Publication Details of Only Known VersionEarliest 2 Known Versions of

    • South Melbourne, South Melbourne - Port Melbourne area, Melbourne - Inner South, Melbourne, Victoria,: J. M. Dent , 1987 .
      ISBN: 0867700505
  • Appears in:
    y separately published work icon Mem Fox Reads Mem Fox , Sydney : Australian Broadcasting Corporation , 1991 Z838236 1991 selected work children's Sydney : Australian Broadcasting Corporation , 1991
  • Appears in:
    y separately published work icon Mem Fox Reads : Volume Two Mem Fox Reads : Volume 2 Mem Fox , Crows Nest : Australian Broadcasting Corporation , 1991 Z1017243 1991 selected work picture book children's Crows Nest : Australian Broadcasting Corporation , 1991
    • Camberwell, Camberwell - Liddell - Ravensworth area, Singleton area, Hunter Valley, Newcastle - Hunter Valley area, New South Wales,: Penguin , 1991 .
      image of person or book cover 8632707858288977714.jpg
      Image courtesy of Penguin Books
      Extent: 32p.
      Description: illus.
      Note/s:
      • Published 5 August 1991
      ISBN: 9780140540635
    • Ringwood, Ringwood - Croydon - Kilsyth area, Melbourne - East, Melbourne, Victoria,: Puffin , 1998 .
      ISBN: 0140540636
      Camberwell, Camberwell - Kew area, Melbourne - Inner South, Melbourne, Victoria,: 2010 .
      Extent: 1vp.
      ISBN: 9780734304537
  • Appears in:
    y separately published work icon Classic Magic : Possum Magic and Other Stories Mem Fox , Tullamarine : Bolinda , 2013 20001646 2013 selected work children's fiction 'A selection of storytelling magic from Australia's most successful author for young children.

    'Mem Fox is Australia's most successful author of books for young children. Her first book, Possum Magic, is the highest selling picture book ever in Australia.

    'Classic Magic, narrated by Mem, is a selection of her most popular and beloved stories.' (Publication summary)
    Tullamarine : Bolinda , 2013
    • Melbourne, Victoria,: Penguin , 2023 .
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      Extent: 32p.
      Edition info: 35th Anniversary Edition
      Note/s:
      • Published 30 May 2023
      ISBN: 9780143795858

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Works about this Work

Meet Our Real-life Hairy Maclary Katrina Stokes , 2013 single work column
— Appears in: The Advertiser , 19 January 2013; (p. 3)
[Review] Koala Lou 1990 single work review
— Appears in: The Junior Bookshelf , June vol. 54 no. 3 1990; (p. 126-27)

— Review of Koala Lou Mem Fox , 1987 single work picture book
[Review] Koala Lou Mary Burns , 1989 single work review
— Appears in: Horn Book Magazine , Nov/December vol. 65 no. 6 1989; (p. 757-58)

— Review of Koala Lou Mem Fox , 1987 single work picture book
[Review] Koala Lou Mary Burns , 1989 single work review
— Appears in: Horn Book Magazine , Nov/December vol. 65 no. 6 1989; (p. 757-58)

— Review of Koala Lou Mem Fox , 1987 single work picture book
[Review] Koala Lou 1990 single work review
— Appears in: The Junior Bookshelf , June vol. 54 no. 3 1990; (p. 126-27)

— Review of Koala Lou Mem Fox , 1987 single work picture book
Meet Our Real-life Hairy Maclary Katrina Stokes , 2013 single work column
— Appears in: The Advertiser , 19 January 2013; (p. 3)
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