Margaret Kiddle Margaret Kiddle i(A16323 works by) (a.k.a. Margaret Loch Kiddle)
Born: Established: 10 Sep 1914 South Yarra, South Yarra - Glen Iris area, Melbourne - Inner South, Melbourne, Victoria, ; Died: Ceased: 3 May 1958 Richmond, East Melbourne - Richmond area, Melbourne, Victoria,
Gender: Female
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1 The Novels of Eleanor Dark Margaret Kiddle , 1950 single work criticism
— Appears in: Australian Week-End Review , 17 November vol. 1 no. 17 1950; (p. 259, 272)
2 The Candle Margaret Kiddle , 1950 single work children's fiction children's
— Appears in: Australian Week-End Review , 1 December vol. 1 no. 18 1950; (p. i, viii)
A grandmother re-tells the Christmas story to her granddaughter as they watch the stars in the night sky.
1 2 y separately published work icon Caroline Chisholm Margaret Kiddle , Melbourne : Melbourne University Press , 1950 Z1242730 1950 single work biography
1 1 y separately published work icon West of Sunset Margaret Kiddle , Sydney : Australasian Publishing Co. , 1949 Z848461 1949 single work children's fiction children's historical fiction In [18]44 two young English girls, Jane and Harriet, emigrate to Australia but Jane's brother is not in Sydney to meet them. Luckily they find work on Mirabooka Station and experience life in the outback.
1 1 y separately published work icon Moonbeam Stairs Margaret Kiddle , Sydney : Australasian Publishing Co. , 1945 Z846333 1945 single work children's fiction children's

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It is a perilous adventure to find fairyland, and before he set out, David was warned of the difficulties and dangers. But the sweet, crystal fairy music had called him and he wanted to find fairyland more than anything else in the world, so he began the journey.

There is delight as well as danger on the way for, with the fairy, Swiftwings, he rides in the pouch of a seven-league kangaroo, and on the back of Popoff, the friendly porpoise. He meets the fishes who live in Australian waters—the John Dories, Old Wives, and little sea horses. He meets, too, the lovely green-haired mermaids of the great Cavern of Coral, and learns how shells are made.

On the fairy island where Lob-lie-by-the-fire lives, another boy, Jack, joins him, and they begin the hardest part of the journey. At last, in the Antarctic snows they find the Escalator Beam—the moonbeam on which the moving crystal steps lead to fairyland. They climb the crystal stairway and find the faraway land where the music of the spheres sings beyond the stars.

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