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Issue Details: First known date: 1965... 1965 Down to Earth
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'A group of Sydney children encounters a strange boy, Martin, a space traveller who does not see life from the same perspective as we do, and who requires a great of protection from some adults if he is to be able to return home safely before the next full moon'. (Source: Trove.)

Publication Details of Only Known VersionEarliest 2 Known Versions of

    • Richmond, East Melbourne - Richmond area, Melbourne, Victoria,: London,
      c
      England,
      c
      c
      United Kingdom (UK),
      c
      Western Europe, Europe,
      :
      Hutchinson Australia ,
      1965 .
      Extent: 189p.
      Description: illus.
      ISBN: 0090736508
    • Ringwood, Ringwood - Croydon - Kilsyth area, Melbourne - East, Melbourne, Victoria,: Penguin , 1972 .
      Extent: 189p.
      Description: illus.
      Reprinted: 1978 , 1993
      ISBN: 0140305599
    • Harmondsworth, Middlesex,
      c
      England,
      c
      c
      United Kingdom (UK),
      c
      Western Europe, Europe,
      :
      Puffin ,
      1972 .
      Extent: 189p.
Alternative title: Wakusei kara kita shonen
Language: Japanese
    • Tokyo, Honshu,
      c
      Japan,
      c
      East Asia, South and East Asia, Asia,
      :
      Akane Shobo ,
      1971 .
      Extent: 253p.

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  • Also braille and sound recording.

Works about this Work

Patricia Wrightson : At the Edge of Australian Vision Walter McVitty , 1981 single work criticism biography
— Appears in: Innocence and Experience : Essays on Contemporary Australian Children's Writers 1981; (p. 99-130)
Off and Away : 10 - 13 Years 1966 single work review
— Appears in: New Books for Boys and Girls , March no. 23 1966; (p. 12-20)

— Review of By the Sandhills of Yamboorah Reginald L. Ottley , 1965 single work novel ; Birkin Joan Phipson , 1965 single work children's fiction ; Ash Road Ivan Southall , 1965 single work children's fiction ; Down to Earth Patricia Wrightson , 1965 single work children's fiction
Off and Away : 10 - 13 Years 1966 single work review
— Appears in: New Books for Boys and Girls , March no. 23 1966; (p. 12-20)

— Review of By the Sandhills of Yamboorah Reginald L. Ottley , 1965 single work novel ; Birkin Joan Phipson , 1965 single work children's fiction ; Ash Road Ivan Southall , 1965 single work children's fiction ; Down to Earth Patricia Wrightson , 1965 single work children's fiction
Patricia Wrightson : At the Edge of Australian Vision Walter McVitty , 1981 single work criticism biography
— Appears in: Innocence and Experience : Essays on Contemporary Australian Children's Writers 1981; (p. 99-130)
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