Australian children's literature
Articles
- Australian Literature: A Preliminary Subject Checklist
Provides a bibliography of works engaged with the subject of 'Australian literature' broadly conceived. It aims at giving a diversified picture of Australian literature by…
1 October 1984 - Review of Reading Race: Aboriginality in Australian Children's Literature, by Clare Bradford
Clare Bradford's already influential study has received several top international honours in the past year, including the North-American-based Children's Literature Association Award, and the International…
1 May 2004 - Review of books by Philippa Poole, Alison Alexander and Brenda Niall
Rodriguez reviews the following volumes:
The Diaries of Ethel Turner, compiled by Philippa Poole (Ure Smith. Sydney. 1979).
Billabong's Author: The Life of Mary…
1 May 1980 - The Return of the Fairy: Australian Medievalist Fantasy for the Young
'The title of this essay refers to the trajectory of fairy narratives in Australia, which comprised a prominent component of cultural production for children in…
1 October 2011 - Economies of Childhood in Nineteenth-Century Australia: Catherine Helen Spence’s Short Fiction for Children
In her long-running annual column for the Adelaide Observer, ‘Gossip about Children’s Books’, Australian writer and social reformer, Catherine Helen Spence, maintained that ‘the…
9 July 2018