Australian children's literature
Articles
- Australian Literature: A Preliminary Subject Checklist1 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 Research Society for Children's Literature Award. (Bradford received the latter at the society's biennial conference…
1 May 2004 - The Return of the Fairy : Australian Medievalist Fantasy for the Young
In November 2009, driving through the inner south-east ofMelbourne, I passed Como House, a South Yarra mansion built between the 1840s and the 1870s. Out of Como's gates tumbled a flock of fairies, girls aged between two and eight, wearing…
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 enjoyment of a good story’ was key to a good education. Literature and education were…
9 July 2018