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'"There were only eleven of them, like eleven sisters all the same age in a large family. Because it was such a very small class, they had a very small classroom, which was perched at the very top of the school - up four flights of stairs, up in the high sky, like a colony of little birds nesting on a cliff. 'Today, girls,' said Miss Renshaw, 'we shall go out into the beautiful Gardens and think about death."'

'In the Gardens they meet a poet. What follows is inexplicable, shocking, a scandal. What really happened that day? Is 'the truth' as elusive as it seems? And do the little girls know more than they are letting on?' (From the publisher's website.)

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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 , 2011 .
      person or book cover
      Courtesy of Allen & Unwin.
      Extent: 152p.
      Edition info: 1st ed.
      Note/s:
      • Published April 2011
      ISBN: 9781742374710 (pbk.)
    • Somerville, Massachusetts,
      c
      United States of America (USA),
      c
      Americas,
      :
      Candlewick Press ,
      2013 .
      image of person or book cover 6786979633599385478.jpg
      Image courtesy of publisher's website.
      Extent: 160p.p.
      Note/s:
      • Published August 2013.
      ISBN: 9780763663995
    • London,
      c
      England,
      c
      c
      United Kingdom (UK),
      c
      Western Europe, Europe,
      :
      Walker Books [London] ,
      2014 .
      image of person or book cover 2065455077063034047.jpg
      Image courtesy of publisher's website.
      Extent: 160p.p.
      Note/s:
      • Published 7th August 2014.
      ISBN: 9781406351149
    • Somerville, Massachusetts,
      c
      United States of America (USA),
      c
      Americas,
      :
      Candlewick Press ,
      2015 .
      image of person or book cover 1595702676191126447.jpg
      Image courtesy of publisher's website.
      Extent: 160p.p.
      Note/s:
      • Published April 2015.
      ISBN: 9780763676797
Alternative title: Nicht jetzt, niemals
Language: German
    • Vienna,
      c
      Austria,
      c
      Western Europe, Europe,
      :
      Ueberreuter ,
      2012 .
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      This image has been sourced from online.
      Extent: 143p.p.
      ISBN: 9783800056767, 3800056763

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Fairy Tale Transformation : The Pied Piper Theme in Australian Fiction Sophie Masson , 2016 single work criticism
— Appears in: M/C Journal , August vol. 19 no. 4 2016;
'The traditional German tale of the Pied Piper of Hamelin inhabits an ambiguous narrative borderland, a liminal space between fact and fiction, fantasy and horror, concrete details and elusive mystery. In his study of the Pied Piper in Tradition and Innovation in Folk Literature, Wolfgang Mieder describes how manuscripts and other evidence appear to confirm the historical base of the story. Precise details from a fifteenth-century manuscript, based on earlier sources, specify that in 1284 on the 26th of June, the feast-day of Saints John and Paul, 130 children from Hamelin were led away by a piper clothed in many colours to the Koppen Hill, and there vanished (Mieder 48). Later manuscripts add details familiar today, such as a plague of rats and a broken bargain with burghers as a motive for the Piper’s actions, while in the seventeenth century the first English-language version advances what might also be the first attempt at a “rational” explanation for the children’s disappearance, claiming that they were taken to Transylvania. ' (Introduction)
Golden Books for Children Deborah Bogle , 2012 single work column
— Appears in: The Advertiser , 4 April 2012; (p. 3)
Crime Can Pay Marc McEvoy , 2012 single work column
— Appears in: The Sun-Herald , 12 August 2012; (p. 15)
Tall Tales on Short List Katharine England , 2012 single work column
— Appears in: The Advertiser , 7 April 2012; (p. 46)
The Golden Day by Ursula Dubosarsky Nean McKenzie , 2011 single work review
— Appears in: Buzz Words , March 2011;

— Review of The Golden Day Ursula Dubosarsky , 2011 single work novel
Under Age Ruth Atkinson , 2011 single work review
— Appears in: The Sunday Age , 3 April 2011; (p. 21)

— Review of The Golden Day Ursula Dubosarsky , 2011 single work novel ; Swashbuckler James Moloney , 1995 single work children's fiction ; The Little Dragon Mem Fox , 2011 single work picture book
And Not a Vampire to be Seen Imogen Saunders , 2011 single work review
— Appears in: The Canberra Times , 16 April 2011; (p. 30)

— Review of The Golden Day Ursula Dubosarsky , 2011 single work novel ; The Understudy's Revenge Sophie Masson , 2011 single work novel
[Review] The Golden Day Andrea Hanke , 2011 single work review
— Appears in: Bookseller + Publisher Magazine , March vol. 90 no. 6 2011; (p. 22)

— Review of The Golden Day Ursula Dubosarsky , 2011 single work novel
[Review] The Golden Day Thuy On , 2011 single work review
— Appears in: Australian Book Review , May no. 331 2011; (p. 46)

— Review of The Golden Day Ursula Dubosarsky , 2011 single work novel
Kid Flicks Jane Fynes-Clinton , 2011 single work review
— Appears in: The Courier-Mail , 28 - 29 May 2011; (p. 24)

— Review of The Golden Day Ursula Dubosarsky , 2011 single work novel
Book Talk : Supporting Australian Writers Jean Ferguson , 2011 single work column
— Appears in: Illawarra Mercury , 31 May 2011; (p. 30)
Publishers Tap into the Experience of Youth Linda Morris , 2011 single work column
— Appears in: The Sydney Morning Herald , 8 July 2011; (p. 10)
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Tall Tales on Short List Katharine England , 2012 single work column
— Appears in: The Advertiser , 7 April 2012; (p. 46)
Crime Can Pay Marc McEvoy , 2012 single work column
— Appears in: The Sun-Herald , 12 August 2012; (p. 15)
Golden Books for Children Deborah Bogle , 2012 single work column
— Appears in: The Advertiser , 4 April 2012; (p. 3)
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