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 - Fantasising the Nation for Child Readers in Early Australian Fairy Tales
This article examines three collections of Australian fairy tales published between 1897 and 1925 and considers the ways in which they contributed to nation-building efforts…
11 December 2022