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I Saw Nothing : The Extinction of the Thylacine
Mark Wilson
(illustrator),
Port Melbourne
:
Lothian
,
2003
Z994072
2003
single work
picture book
children's
"Rosie tells the story of the capture and death of the last 'tiger-wolf', Tasmania's doomed thylacine, tragically declared a protected species after the last of its kind had already died ... But was there anything Rosie could have done? " (Source: Trove)
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I Did Nothing : The Extinction of the Gastric-Brooding Frog
Mark Wilson
(illustrator),
South Melbourne
:
Lothian
,
2004
Z1099652
2004
single work
picture book
children's
"Young Zeek, assistant to the museum's curator of amphibians, learns of the fate of what might have been the last Gastric-Brooding Frog, a unique Australian animal which scientists were keen to learn more from. Horrified as he is by the frog's death, Zeek is not about to give up. He is just one of many young scientists who has decided that he can do something about preserving Earth's endangered environmental heritage." (Source: Trove)
- y I Said Nothing : The Extinction of the Paradise Parrot Mark Wilson (illustrator), South Melbourne : Lothian , 2003 Z1099659 2003 single work picture book children's
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Awards
- 2004 winner The Wilderness Society Environment Award for Children's Literature — Fiction
- 2004 commended Whitley Awards — Illustrated Children's Series
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