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Issue Details: First known date: 2002... 2002 Tom Jones Saves the World
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'I hate that wall, Every time I go for a bike-ride, Mum says, "Stay within the walls". So I ride around in circles. Like a circus animal.

'It's a prison. A prison for kids. Dumb things become important when you're old. At least that's what Tom reckons: like living in a guarded gated community, filling the three spare rooms with a bottle top collection or secretly belly dancing while everyone's out. When Tom meets Cleo the snake charmer, together they break-out, discover a bull that hasn't become a hamburger, visit tom's forbidden grandfather and catch and boil yabbies by Murchison Creek.

'Another funny, quirky adventure about friendship, families and saving the world, from popular award-winning storyteller Steven Herrick.'  (Publication summary)

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  • Novel in verse form.

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The Children's Book Council of Australia Annual Awards 2003 2003 single work column
— Appears in: Reading Time : The Journal of the Children's Book Council of Australia , August vol. 47 no. 3 2003; (p. 2-12)
[Review] Tom Jones Saves the World Kevin Brophy , 2003 single work review
— Appears in: Reading Time : The Journal of the Children's Book Council of Australia , February vol. 47 no. 1 2003; (p. 20)

— Review of Tom Jones Saves the World Steven Herrick , 2002 single work children's fiction
Steven Herrick Jane Campbell (interviewer), 2003 single work interview
— Appears in: Classroom , vol. 23 no. 7 2003; (p. 10-12)
Young Reviewers of the Year Anne-Louise Fitzgerald , 2003 single work review
— Appears in: The Courier-Mail , 12 August 2003; (p. 4)

— Review of Tom Jones Saves the World Steven Herrick , 2002 single work children's fiction
[Review] Tom Jones Saves the World Callum Kennedy , 2003 single work review
— Appears in: The Age , 18 August 2003; (p. 7)

— Review of Tom Jones Saves the World Steven Herrick , 2002 single work children's fiction
Children's Book Council of Australia : Review of Short-Listed Books 2003 Wendy Michaels , 2003 single work review
— Appears in: Classroom , vol. 23 no. 5 2003; (p. 6-17)

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[Review] Tom Jones Saves the World Callum Kennedy , 2003 single work review
— Appears in: The Age , 18 August 2003; (p. 7)

— Review of Tom Jones Saves the World Steven Herrick , 2002 single work children's fiction
Young Reviewers of the Year Anne-Louise Fitzgerald , 2003 single work review
— Appears in: The Courier-Mail , 12 August 2003; (p. 4)

— Review of Tom Jones Saves the World Steven Herrick , 2002 single work children's fiction
[Review] Tom Jones Saves the World Kevin Brophy , 2003 single work review
— Appears in: Reading Time : The Journal of the Children's Book Council of Australia , February vol. 47 no. 1 2003; (p. 20)

— Review of Tom Jones Saves the World Steven Herrick , 2002 single work children's fiction
Book Reviews Kaspar Hartley , 2002 single work review
— Appears in: The Courier-Mail , 15 October 2002; (p. 4)

— Review of Tom Jones Saves the World Steven Herrick , 2002 single work children's fiction
Steven Herrick Jane Campbell (interviewer), 2003 single work interview
— Appears in: Classroom , vol. 23 no. 7 2003; (p. 10-12)
The Children's Book Council of Australia Annual Awards 2003 2003 single work column
— Appears in: Reading Time : The Journal of the Children's Book Council of Australia , August vol. 47 no. 3 2003; (p. 2-12)
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