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'The forest is earth and leaves, sun and shade, feather and blood and bone. It is the old way, the true way, the wild way to live. But, for Kian, wilderness is not home.
'Kian, a five-year-old cat, is dumped in the forest along with two kitten siblings, Jem and Cally. Kian wants nothing more than to find his home, but first they have to run the gamut of the wild.' (Publication summary)
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Dedication: For Greg, who loves cats.
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Epigraph: 'Cats, no less liquid than their shadows, Offer no angles to the wind.' - A. S. Tessimond.
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Also available in sound recording format.
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Works about this Work
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Fear, Voice, and the Environment in Sonya Hartnett's Forest and The Midnight Zoo
2011
single work
criticism
— Appears in: Papers : Explorations Into Children's Literature , vol. 21 no. 1 2011; (p. 67-76) 'Subtle is not a word that is normally associated with Sonya Hartnett's style. Rather, she is known for her stark, bold approach. However, when it comes to the Australian environment, Hartnett is indeed subtle in her approach. Hartnett has set in play a new, almost posthumanist style of writing about the nonhuman. The Australian landscape and environment has always figured prominently in Australian literature for both adults and children but Hartnett has taken this writing in a totally different direction. This article looks at two of Hartnett's novels, Forest and The Midnight Zoo, and examines how Hartnett offers new and exciting avenues of thought regarding the place of humans in that environment.' (Author's abstract)
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Elements of Carnival and the Carnivalesque in Contemporary Australian Children's Literature
Sydney
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2009
27495428
2009
single work
thesis
'This thesis discusses the influence of elements of Bakhtinian camivalesque in selected contemporary Australian children’s literature. Many of the Bakhtinian ideas are centred on the work of Franqois Rabelais, particularly his five books collectively entitled Gargantua and Pantagruel. Aspects of the complex field of Bakhtinian camivalesque that have been considered include: attitudes to authority, the grotesque body and its working, the importance of feasting and the associated concepts of bodily functioning, customs in relation to food, and ritual and specific language such as the use of curses and oaths. The role of humour and the manifest forms this takes within carnival are intrinsic and are discussed at some length. These central tenets are explored in two ways: first, in relation to their connection and use within the narrative structures of a selection of books short listed (and thus critically acclaimed) by the Australian Children’s Book Council from the early 1980s to the early 2000s, and second, by means of contrast, to the commercially popular but generally less critically acclaimed works of other Australian writers such as Paul Jennings and Andy Griffiths. The thesis concludes by considering the ways in which camivalesque freedom is encouraged through and by new media.'
Source: Abstract.
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Books for Younger Readers
2004
single work
review
— Appears in: The Courier-Mail , 2 October 2004; (p. 9)
— Review of Forest 2001 single work novel -
Shorts: Children's Books
2004
single work
review
— Appears in: The Canberra Times , 18 September 2004; (p. 20)
— Review of The Mighty Bunyips 2004 single work picture book ; By the River 2004 single work novel ; Our School Fete 2004 single work picture book ; Forest 2001 single work novel ; Lizzie Nonsense 2004 single work picture book ; A Roomful of Magic 2004 single work children's fiction -
CBC Acceptance Speeches : Sonya Hartnett
2002
single work
column
— Appears in: Reading Time : The Journal of the Children's Book Council of Australia , November vol. 46 no. 4 2002; (p. 6)
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Untitled
2001
single work
review
— Appears in: Reading Time : The Journal of the Children's Book Council of Australia , November vol. 45 no. 4 2001; (p. 27)
— Review of Forest 2001 single work novel -
Shorts: Children's Books
2004
single work
review
— Appears in: The Canberra Times , 18 September 2004; (p. 20)
— Review of The Mighty Bunyips 2004 single work picture book ; By the River 2004 single work novel ; Our School Fete 2004 single work picture book ; Forest 2001 single work novel ; Lizzie Nonsense 2004 single work picture book ; A Roomful of Magic 2004 single work children's fiction -
Books for Younger Readers
2004
single work
review
— Appears in: The Courier-Mail , 2 October 2004; (p. 9)
— Review of Forest 2001 single work novel -
Cats in the Cradle of the Forest
2001
single work
review
— Appears in: The Sunday Age , 26 August 2001; (p. 11)
— Review of Forest 2001 single work novel -
In Short
2001
single work
review
— Appears in: The Sydney Morning Herald , 6-7 October 2001; (p. 15)
— Review of Swimming with the Jellyfish 2001 single work novel ; ; Forest 2001 single work novel ; There'll Be New Dreams 2001 single work novel ; ; The Seven Rivers 1966 selected work prose autobiography -
The Children's Book Council of Australia : Annual Awards 2002
2002
single work
column
— Appears in: Reading Time : The Journal of the Children's Book Council of Australia , August vol. 46 no. 3 2002; (p. 2-13) -
CBC Acceptance Speeches : Sonya Hartnett
2002
single work
column
— Appears in: Reading Time : The Journal of the Children's Book Council of Australia , November vol. 46 no. 4 2002; (p. 6) -
Fear, Voice, and the Environment in Sonya Hartnett's Forest and The Midnight Zoo
2011
single work
criticism
— Appears in: Papers : Explorations Into Children's Literature , vol. 21 no. 1 2011; (p. 67-76) 'Subtle is not a word that is normally associated with Sonya Hartnett's style. Rather, she is known for her stark, bold approach. However, when it comes to the Australian environment, Hartnett is indeed subtle in her approach. Hartnett has set in play a new, almost posthumanist style of writing about the nonhuman. The Australian landscape and environment has always figured prominently in Australian literature for both adults and children but Hartnett has taken this writing in a totally different direction. This article looks at two of Hartnett's novels, Forest and The Midnight Zoo, and examines how Hartnett offers new and exciting avenues of thought regarding the place of humans in that environment.' (Author's abstract)
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Forest by Sonya Hartnett
2001
single work
criticism
— Appears in: Viewpoint : On Books for Young Adults , Spring vol. 9 no. 3 2001; (p. 33) -
Not the Usual Suspects
2001
single work
column
— Appears in: Viewpoint : On Books for Young Adults , Summer vol. 9 no. 4 2001; (p. 3-4)