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Issue Details: First known date: 1947... 1947 Bush Christmas
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A group of bush children, with an Aboriginal friend as tracker, set out in pursuit of horse thieves who have stolen their father's valuable mare.

Adaptations

form y separately published work icon Bush Christmas Prince and the Great Race Ted Roberts , ( dir. Henri Safran ) Perth : Barron Entertainment , 1983 Z1439795 1983 single work film/TV children's adventure 'Based on the Rank Organisation's 1947 Australian classic of the same name, the film, set in the early 1950s outback Queensland, tells the story of a family's struggle to keep their homestead and of two bumbling thieves who steal their race-winning horse, which represents their main chance of survival.'
Source: National Film and Sound Archive

Notes

  • Subtitle: A Film Story Retold
  • This novel is a retelling of the 1947 film Bush Christmas, original screenplay by Ralph Smart. The novel itself was substantially revised and reissued in 1980. Another film was made based on the reissued novel in 1983 with a screenplay by Ted Roberts.
  • A 1959 Indonesian edition of this book (Pakansi Adjain), in the form of a story and comic strip, is listed in Australian Children's Books : A Bibliography (Volume One 1774-1972) (1992). A copy is held at the Mitchell Library.

Publication Details of Only Known VersionEarliest 2 Known Versions of

    • Carlton, Parkville - Carlton area, Melbourne - North, Melbourne, Victoria,: Isaac Pitman and Sons , 1980 .
      Extent: 106p.
      Edition info: Rev. ed.
      Description: illus.
      Reprinted: 1983 3rd edition, ISBN: 0858969653
      ISBN: 0858967863

Other Formats

  • Also braille, sound recording (Revised version).

Works about this Work

Untitled Eve Pownall , 1981 single work review
— Appears in: Reading Time : The Journal of the Children's Book Council of Australia , April no. 79 1981; (p. 41-42)

— Review of Bush Christmas Ralph Smart , Mary Cathart Borer , 1947 single work children's fiction
Combating the Sag Margaret Dunkle , 1981 single work review
— Appears in: Australian Book Review , March no. 28 1981; (p. 49-50)

— Review of The Lilly-Pilly Mavis Thorpe Clark , 1979 single work children's fiction ; Bush Christmas Ralph Smart , Mary Cathart Borer , 1947 single work children's fiction ; Night Outside Patricia Wrightson , 1979 single work children's fiction ; Paint a Dream Mary White , 1980 single work children's fiction ; The Kumul Feathers James Porter , 1979 single work children's fiction ; Marty Hollitt and the Amazing Game Machine Jenny Pausacker , 1979 single work children's fiction ; Blue Ridge Summer Margaret Paice , 1979 single work children's fiction ; Peppino Says Goodbye David Martin , 1980 single work children's fiction ; Nini Nance Donkin , 1979 single work children's fiction ; Kate and the Runaway Granny Joan Dalgleish , 1980 single work children's fiction
Combating the Sag Margaret Dunkle , 1981 single work review
— Appears in: Australian Book Review , March no. 28 1981; (p. 49-50)

— Review of The Lilly-Pilly Mavis Thorpe Clark , 1979 single work children's fiction ; Bush Christmas Ralph Smart , Mary Cathart Borer , 1947 single work children's fiction ; Night Outside Patricia Wrightson , 1979 single work children's fiction ; Paint a Dream Mary White , 1980 single work children's fiction ; The Kumul Feathers James Porter , 1979 single work children's fiction ; Marty Hollitt and the Amazing Game Machine Jenny Pausacker , 1979 single work children's fiction ; Blue Ridge Summer Margaret Paice , 1979 single work children's fiction ; Peppino Says Goodbye David Martin , 1980 single work children's fiction ; Nini Nance Donkin , 1979 single work children's fiction ; Kate and the Runaway Granny Joan Dalgleish , 1980 single work children's fiction
Untitled Eve Pownall , 1981 single work review
— Appears in: Reading Time : The Journal of the Children's Book Council of Australia , April no. 79 1981; (p. 41-42)

— Review of Bush Christmas Ralph Smart , Mary Cathart Borer , 1947 single work children's fiction
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