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Irene Cheyne Irene Cheyne i(A30496 works by)
Born: Established: Wangaratta, Wangaratta area, North East Victoria, Victoria, ; Died: Ceased: 1951
Gender: Female
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1 Old Mr Tatterlock i "Old Mr Tatterlock walks quite slow;", Irene Cheyne , 1946 single work poetry
— Appears in: Witness to the Stars : An Anthology of Australasian Verse by Catholic Poets 1946; (p. 198)
1 y separately published work icon Packman's Pipe Irene Cheyne , Melbourne : Whitcombe and Tombs , 1946 Z830771 1946 single work children's fiction children's
1 y separately published work icon Dinnie, Binnie and Jinks Irene Cheyne , Melbourne : Whitcombe and Tombs , 1945 Z830774 1945 single work children's fiction children's Siblings Dinnie, Binnie, and Jinks are intrigued by the house next door and the writer who lives there. When Jinks climbs the fence, Dinnie and Binnie must go over to retrieve her. The children stay for afternon tea, and end up on a remarkable adventure in the Kingdom of the Toys, where they encounter talking dogs and dolls, goblins, and china cows and horses that come to life.
1 1 y separately published work icon The Little Blue Mountain Irene Cheyne , Sydney : Angus and Robertson , 1944 Z1255263 1944 single work children's fiction children's
1 1 y separately published work icon Annette and Co. Irene Cheyne , Sydney : Angus and Robertson , 1942 Z830585 1942 single work children's fiction children's

Publisher's blurb in back of books states:

Annette & Co., a worthy sequel to the much-loved Annette of River Bend, will win the hearts of readers young and old. For Irene Cheyne's youthful characters are youth itself, and this second Annette book places her firmly in the front rank of those writers who have captured for us the zest, the humour, the pathos and the rich imaginativeness of childhood.

In this book Annette's own problems are happily solved, so she can turn all her attention to those of little Odd Wattier. Motherless Odd is leading a miserable life among unkindly relatives when Annette meets and befriends him. She finds out that one of his biggest troubles is the mystery surrounding his father's disappearance, and this mystery she determines to solve. Many exciting adventures and discoveries follow, and they all add charm to each of the kind, happy people who become involved: Joujay, the Tucker two, the Cherub, Dan, Potts, the Dragon, Dominic Heath, the mysterious David Stanes, and above all Annette herself.

1 y separately published work icon David of the Stars Irene Cheyne , Sydney : Angus and Robertson , 1942 Z830579 1942 single work children's fiction children's
1 y separately published work icon Annette of River Bend Irene Cheyne , Sydney : Angus and Robertson , 1941 Z834607 1941 single work children's fiction children's

Publisher's blurb at back of book states:

ANNETTE OF RIVER BEND is a story that will go straight to the hearts of all young readers from the age of ten onwards. For Irene Cheyne ranks with L. M. Montgomery, Ethel Turner and Mary Grant Bruce as a creator of vital, lovable characters that will live as real people for countless youngsters. Annette—sparkling, imaginative, impetuous and loyal—is youth itself, an Australian Pollyanna. And her story with its gaiety and humour, its pathos and mystery, has a charm that will enshrine it with the immortal Anne of Green Gables in the affections of the young at heart.

Annette is the motherless daughter of old Dick Linney, the richest and meanest man in River Bend, on the upper Murray. Old Dick doesn't care twopence for Annette, and goodness knows what would have become of her but for Bill Bluitt, the manager of the Golden Pineapple Cafe next door. He is her chief friend and mentor, and he it is who persuades Dick Linney to send her to a boarding-chool in Melbourne—to the great amazement of River Benders. But Bill has a strange power over old Dick, a power that goes back many years to a dramatic episode in old Dick's past.

All Irene Cheyne's people are so real that you feel like inviting them home to tea; but her chief creation is the child Annette. She should certainly be enthroned with the other heroines of juvenile literature.

1 Dr Foster Comes Back i "Dr Foster went to Gloster", Irene Cheyne , 1940 single work poetry children's
— Appears in: The School Paper : Grades V and VI , June no. 481 1940; (p. 68-69)
1 Nicksy Nod : Pictures in Verse i "The other night when Nicksy Nod", Irene Cheyne , 1940 single work poetry children's
1 The Little Green House i "Deep down in the sea there's a little green house", Irene Cheyne , 1940 single work poetry children's fantasy
— Appears in: School Paper : Grades III and IV , December no. 502 1940; (p. 166-168)
1 1 y separately published work icon The Golden Cauliflower Irene Cheyne , London : Hutchinson , 1937 Z1322747 1937 single work children's fiction children's Quincey Hurrie is confined to crutches and his mother must work long hours but he mamages to escape to the Land of Unreality and joins the quest for the Golden Cauliflower.
1 y separately published work icon A Magic Hour with the Leaf Fairies, Russet and Gold and Green Irene Cheyne , Melbourne : Irene Cheyne , 1933 Z806017 1933 single work children's fiction children's
1 The Cripple i "When other children race about, don't think it's dull for me,", Irene Cheyne , 1922 single work poetry
— Appears in: The Triad , 11 December 1922; (p. 70)
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