Born: Established: 1972
Papers: Explorations into Children's Literature is a peer-reviewed, open-access academic journal about children's literature research. While the scope is international, the journal has a particular emphasis on research and researchers in Australasia and the Pacific. It is the official journal of the Australasian Children's Literature Association for Research (ACLAR).
In it's early history, Papers was co-published as part of Magpies Magazine to provide a forum for discussion on Australian children's literature, aimed at students, teachers, academics and others engaged in the field of children's literature.
7.5498343'You let your sister burn.
'When Vinnie’s sister is killed, he runs away from the accusing eyes of his father to the isolation of the bush. There, he must answer a question … was it his fault?
'In 1941, German soldier Erich is sent miles away from his family after being captured and interned in an Australian prisoner-of-war camp. Despite everything he’s grown up believing, Erich must learn to co-exist with his sworn enemy and, in doing so, question his father’s expectations that have defined his existence.
'Amid the rain soaked forests of South Western Australia, these two young men’s lives collide across the years, changing them both as they struggle to escape their painful memories of fireshadow.
'Some battles are imposed on us, some fought within.' (Publisher's blurb)
5.2915025'Saria is the last of her kind, the final child to be born in the Darklands, a quarantined expanse of outback desert, contaminated generations earlier by the remote and mysterious Nightpeople. Spirited away at her birth before the Nightpeople could remove her from the genetic pool, Saria, now in her early teens, is called before the Council of Dreamers to be used as a bargaining chip. There she discovers the truth about her own past and that of her people.' - publicity blurb, endmatter, Skyfall
4.472136'When you've run from the past, you have to stand and face the future...
'Dara, her brother Jaran and their cousin Eyna have grown up among the Clan; their lives are peaceful as they eke out an existence in the towering forest below their escarpment home. But when the ghosts of a dead civilisation reach out to haunt them one final time, they and their family must set out, on an unmapped path across a dying land.
'Walking daywards, always into the sun.' Source: www.uqp.uq.edu.au (Sighted 07/04/2010).
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