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'Under cover of darkness, two brothers cross a war-ravaged countryside carrying a secret bundle. One night they stumble across a deserted town reduced to smouldering ruins. But at the end of a blackened street they find a small green miracle: a zoo filled with animals in need of hope.
'A moving and ageless fable about war, and freedom.' (From the publisher's website.)
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Ages 13+
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This book won the 2011 Australian Publishers Association Best Designed Children’s Fiction Book sponsored by 1010 Printing International.
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Included on the 2011 White Ravens list compiled by the International Youth Library in Munich, Germany.
Affiliation Notes
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This work is affiliated with the AustLit subset Asian-Australian Children's Literature and Publishing because it has a Japanese translation
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- Sound recording.
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The Necessity of an Anthropomorphic Approach to Children’s Literature
2021
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— Appears in: Children's Literature in Education , June vol. 52 no. 3 2021; (p. 183-199) 'The study focuses on the necessity of an anthropomorphic approach in deconstructing the symbolic understandings of animals in children’s literature, and considers how such an approach can be used to draw ethical attention to the unnatural history of animals in the Anthropocene. The paper analyses three children’s novels that depict animals without representing their subjectivity in characteristically human terms. These novels are Eva Hornung’s ferality tale Dog Boy (2009), Sonya Hartnett’s fable The Midnight Zoo (2011) and Kate Applegate’s animal autobiography The One and Only Ivan (2012). Informed by Jacques Derrida’s anti-anthropocentric views and the ethical discourse of creaturely vulnerability, this essay argues that the world’s present state of cascading environmental impoverishment demands an anthropomorphic approach that is not inherently anthropocentric, along with an emerging kind of creaturely consciousness.' (Publication abstract) -
Digger Spirit Draws in Kids
2012
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— Appears in: The Courier-Mail , 21-22 April 2012; (p. 20-21) 'Authors are keeping the nation's military history alive, writes Fiona Purdon.' -
CBCA Awards - Acceptance Speeches : Older Readers
2011
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— Appears in: Reading Time : The Journal of The Children's Book Council of Australia , November vol. 55 no. 4 2011; (p. 6) -
Untitled
2011
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— Appears in: School Library Journal : For Children's, Young Adult and School Librarians , September vol. 57 no. 9 2011; (p. 156)
— Review of The Midnight Zoo 2010 single work children's fiction -
Untitled
2011
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— Appears in: Publishers Weekly , 8 August vol. 258 no. 32 2011; (p. 48)
— Review of The Midnight Zoo 2010 single work children's fiction
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Naked Apes and Talking Animals
2010
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— Appears in: The Age , 14 August 2010; (p. 25) The Sydney Morning Herald , 14-15 August 2010; (p. 37)
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[Review] Takeshita Demons
2010
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— Appears in: The Sunday Age , 22 August 2010; (p. 21)
— Review of The Midnight Zoo 2010 single work children's fiction ; Takeshita Demons 2010 single work children's fiction ; The Truth about Penguins 2010 single work picture book -
Bejewelled Fable Lost in the Realm of Realism
2010
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— Appears in: The Weekend Australian , 28-29 August 2010; (p. 21)
— Review of The Midnight Zoo 2010 single work children's fiction -
Winds of War
2010
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— Appears in: Australian Book Review , September no. 324 2010; (p. 71)
— Review of The Midnight Zoo 2010 single work children's fiction ; The Red Wind 2010 single work children's fiction -
The Winds of War
2010
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— Appears in: The Canberra Times , 18 September 2010; (p. 30)
— Review of The Midnight Zoo 2010 single work children's fiction ; The Red Wind 2010 single work children's fiction ; Let Me Whisper You My Story 2010 single work children's fiction -
Strange Beasts : Sonya Hartnett's Midnight Zoo
2010
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— Appears in: The Monthly , August no. 59 2010; (p. 62-65) -
Escaping the Cycle of Dull
2010
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— Appears in: The Courier-Mail , 28 - 29 August 2010; (p. 22) -
Judged By More than Their Covers
2011
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— Appears in: The Advertiser , 16 April 2011; (p. 50-51) -
There's More to the Story
2011
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— Appears in: The Sydney Morning Herald , 20-21 August 2011; (p. 12-13) -
Passion, Pedagogy and the Political : Looking Back, Looking Forward
2011
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— Appears in: English in Australia , vol. 46 no. 2 2011; (p. 27-35)
Awards
- 2012 honour book KOALA Awards — Fiction for Years 7-9
- 2012 winner KROC Awards — Fiction Years 7-9
- 2012 listed USBBY Outstanding International Books List
- 2012 nominated Yoto Carnegies Library Association Awards (UK) CILIP (Chartered Institute of Library and Information Professionals) Awards — Yoto Carnegie Medal for Writing
- 2011 winner CBCA Book of the Year Awards — Book of the Year: Older Readers
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