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Issue Details: First known date: 1982... 1982 Crutches Are Nothing! : A Collection of Twelve Stories about Disabled Children
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AbstractHistoryArchive Description

Twelve stories in an Australian setting explore the special needs and situations of young people with handicaps such as blindness, mental retardation, polio, and autism.

Notes

  • Extracts from writing by Alan Marshall, Eleanor Spence, Patricia Wrightson, Mary White, James Aldridge, & Judith Wright. Stories by Barbara Ker Wilson, Mary Small, Allan Baillie, Hazel Edwards & Edel Wignell. (Kerry White Australian Children's Books: A Bibliography: Volume Two 1973-1988 (1992): 411).
  • Dedication: For Warrick.

Publication Details of Only Known VersionEarliest 2 Known Versions of

    • Collingwood, Fitzroy - Collingwood area, Melbourne - North, Melbourne, Victoria,: Greenhouse Publications , 1982 .
      Extent: ii,121p.p.
      Description: illus. (b & w), bibl.
      Note/s:
      • Foreword by Bruce Ford.
      • Author's Introduction by Edel Wignell, 1982.
      ISBN: 0909104468

Works about this Work

Untitled Joyce Kirk , 1984 single work review
— Appears in: Reading Time : The Journal of the Children's Book Council of Australia , January no. 90 1984; (p. 55)

— Review of Crutches Are Nothing! : A Collection of Twelve Stories about Disabled Children 1982 anthology children's fiction extract
Untitled Joyce Kirk , 1984 single work review
— Appears in: Reading Time : The Journal of the Children's Book Council of Australia , January no. 90 1984; (p. 55)

— Review of Crutches Are Nothing! : A Collection of Twelve Stories about Disabled Children 1982 anthology children's fiction extract
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