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Issue Details: First known date: 2003... 2003 How to Make a Bird
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'I'm not a bad person. I've simply come out of left field. I'm a stray and, anyway, whatever I am, I'm not it yet. I'm still becoming. In fact, I'd always believed that I was once a horse, because I loved to run down a hill. And Eddie was a fish. He was a swaggerer, if you know what I mean. Flimsy but loveable.

'Mannie is searching for the thing she doesn't yet know, but it's like a runaway kite pulling her heart forward. So she's leaving home. She's heading for the city with nothing but a long red dress, a strong hunch, and an unknown address in her pocket. As the day turns to night, Mannie makes a lot of discoveries and not exactly the ones she planned to make.

'With rare sensitivity, wisdom and humour, and a voice that's entirely her own, Martine Murray tells a bittersweet story about longing and losing and finding again.'

Source: Publisher's blurb.

Publication Details of Only Known VersionEarliest 2 Known Versions of

    • Crows Nest, North Sydney - Lane Cove area, Sydney Northern Suburbs, Sydney, New South Wales,: Allen and Unwin , 2003 .
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      Extent: 240p.
      ISBN: 1741141095
    • New York (City), New York (State),
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      United States of America (USA),
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      Americas,      :       Arthur A. Levine Books ,       2010 .
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      Extent: 240p.p.
      Note/s:

      • Published 1 June 2010.

      ISBN: 9780439669511, 0439669510
Alternative title: Das feuerrote Kleid
Language: German
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Related Works

Lady in Red Martine Murray , 2003 extract novel young adult (How to Make a Bird)
— Appears in: The Courier-Mail , 21 October 2003; (p. 4)
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Works about this Work

Know the Author/Illustrator : Martine Murray Tali Lavi , 2018 single work interview
— Appears in: Magpies : Talking About Books for Children , March vol. 33 no. 1 2018; (p. 20-24) Martine Murray is poised on the brink of her next adventure, much like many of the heroes who populate her books. She is in the process of readying her home so that she can sell it. She plans on moving to an undeveloped land nearby and starting p a community based on principles of permaculture. This revelation stirs up simultaneous delight in her adventurous spirit and a feeling of sadness for the incumbent loss. Entering the Castlemaine property, whose location has inspired several of her books, one is struck by its unconventional beauty and how it appears attuned to its natural state. This then is the world of Martine's books. (Introduction)
[Review] How to Make a Bird Faye Shortal , 2005 single work review
— Appears in: Fiction Focus : New Titles for Teenagers , vol. 19 no. 2 2005; (p. 65)
— Review of How to Make a Bird Martine Murray , 2003 single work novel
[Review] How to Make a Bird Eliza Metcalfe , 2005 single work review
— Appears in: Australian Bookseller & Publisher , February vol. 84 no. 7 2005; (p. 32)
— Review of How to Make a Bird Martine Murray , 2003 single work novel
Novel Twist for a Writer Rachel Kleinman , 2004 single work prose
— Appears in: The Australian , 13 October 2004; (p. 24)
Our Young Reviewers Nicole Keating , 2004 single work review
— Appears in: The Courier-Mail , 17 August 2004; (p. 2-3)
— Review of How to Make a Bird Martine Murray , 2003 single work novel
How to Make a Bird by Martine Murray Moira Robinson , 2003 single work criticism
— Appears in: Viewpoint : On Books for Young Adults , Summer vol. 11 no. 4 2003; (p. 22-23)
— Review of How to Make a Bird Martine Murray , 2003 single work novel
[Review] How to Make a Bird Jane Connolly , 2003 single work review
— Appears in: Magpies : Talking About Books for Children , November vol. 18 no. 5 2003; (p. 44)
— Review of How to Make a Bird Martine Murray , 2003 single work novel
Not Quite Normal Robyn Sheahan-Bright , 2003-2004 single work review
— Appears in: Australian Book Review , December-January no. 257 2003-2004; (p. 63-64)
— Review of Julia, My Sister Bronwyn Blake , 2003 single work novel ; Tumble Turn Doug MacLeod , 2003 single work novel ; Return Ticket Warren Flynn , 2003 single work novel ; Thambaroo Jane Carroll , 2003 single work children's fiction ; How to Make a Bird Martine Murray , 2003 single work novel ; Black Taxi James Moloney , 2003 single work novel ; The Spirit of Barrumbi Leonie Robin Norrington , 2003 single work children's fiction ; Caught in the Headlights Tony Shillitoe , 2003 single work novel
[Review] How to Make a Bird Margot Nelmes , 2004 single work review
— Appears in: Reading Time : The Journal of the Children's Book Council of Australia , February vol. 48 no. 1 2004; (p. 26)
— Review of How to Make a Bird Martine Murray , 2003 single work novel
[Review] How to Make a Bird Faye Shortal , 2004 single work review
— Appears in: Fiction Focus : New Titles for Teenagers , vol. 18 no. 1 2004; (p. 37-38)
— Review of How to Make a Bird Martine Murray , 2003 single work novel
Novel Twist for a Writer Rachel Kleinman , 2004 single work prose
— Appears in: The Australian , 13 October 2004; (p. 24)
Know the Author/Illustrator : Martine Murray Tali Lavi , 2018 single work interview
— Appears in: Magpies : Talking About Books for Children , March vol. 33 no. 1 2018; (p. 20-24) Martine Murray is poised on the brink of her next adventure, much like many of the heroes who populate her books. She is in the process of readying her home so that she can sell it. She plans on moving to an undeveloped land nearby and starting p a community based on principles of permaculture. This revelation stirs up simultaneous delight in her adventurous spirit and a feeling of sadness for the incumbent loss. Entering the Castlemaine property, whose location has inspired several of her books, one is struck by its unconventional beauty and how it appears attuned to its natural state. This then is the world of Martine's books. (Introduction)
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