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'This tells of the Clifford family who leave a comfortable suburban existence in Melbourne to live on a construction camp in Queensland where Mr Clifford works as an accountant. Mrs Clifford has been ordered to the country for her health's sake, so before she and her family join her husband they spend some weeks at a seaside resort out of Brisbane while the children look forward to camp life' (Saxby, A History of Australian Children's Literature 1841-1941, p. 164).
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1919 edition includes photographs of the camp, children, and the landscape in which the work is set.
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Fiction
1919
single work
review
— Appears in: The Queenslander , 20 December 1919; (p. 3)
— Review of Camp Kiddies : A Story of Life on Railway Construction 1919 single work children's fiction ; Captain Jim 1919 single work children's fiction ; Brigid and the Cub 1919 single work novel
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Fiction
1919
single work
review
— Appears in: The Queenslander , 20 December 1919; (p. 3)
— Review of Camp Kiddies : A Story of Life on Railway Construction 1919 single work children's fiction ; Captain Jim 1919 single work children's fiction ; Brigid and the Cub 1919 single work novel
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