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Issue Details: First known date: 1989... 1989 The Blue Chameleon
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"Story of famine in the deep Sahara, the ozone hole over Antarctica, the dangerous legacy of a dead biologist - and Beui Ish-Mahel, the survivor of an ancient desert clan. The B̀lue chameleon' is currently being adapted as a screenplay." (Source: Trove)

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Notes

  • Dedication: For Caroline and John Ball

Affiliation Notes

  • This work is affiliated with the AustLit subset Asian-Australian Children's Literature and Publishing because it has an Arabic character and references to the Middle East.

Publication Details of Only Known VersionEarliest 2 Known Versions of

    • Melbourne, Victoria,: Hill of Content , 1989 .
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      Extent: 169p.
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      ISBN: 0855721928
Alternative title: Die Flucht nach Fasaran
Language: German
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  • Also braille, sound recording.
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Works about this Work

Other Selves: Subjectivity and the 'Doppelganger' in Australian Adolescent Fiction Robyn McCallum , 1996 single work criticism
— Appears in: Writing the Australian Child : Texts and Contexts in Fictions for Children 1996; (p. 17-36)
'The Blue Chameleon' by Katherine Scholes Jane Ponting , 1993 single work review
— Appears in: Viewpoint : On Books for Young Adults , Spring vol. 1 no. 3 1993; (p. 26-27)
— Review of The Blue Chameleon Katherine Scholes , 1989 single work novel
New Values, New Awards Maureen Crago , 1991 single work column
— Appears in: Magpies : Talking About Books for Children , September vol. 6 no. 4 1991; (p. 14-16)
'A Green Thought in a Green Shade' : A Study of the Pastoral in Australian Children's Fiction of the 1980s Heather Scutter , 1991 single work criticism
— Appears in: Children's Literature and Contemporary Theory 1991; Papers : Explorations into Children's Literature , April vol. 4 no. 1 1993; (p. 22-37) Scutter canvasses over 20 Australian children's and young adult novels, some in more detail than others, with a view to examining their representation of the 'pastoral'. While drawing attention to the changing significance of how the pastoral is portrayed, Scutter points out that the fundamental paradigm of the pastoral continues to depend upon the dichotomy, or contrast between the city and country (23). Scutter believes that 'the future locus of the pastoral' lies in 'the continued exploration of what is perceived to be other in our lives' (36) and sees the genre as moving in two distinct directions: 'towards the otherness that is within the individual psyche' and 'towards a more expansive otherness', one which takes the pastoral out of the 'secret garden or hidden valley into the wider world' (36).
Grand Translations Agnes Nieuwenhuizen , 1991 single work review
— Appears in: Editions , March-April no. 10 1991; (p. 10-11)
— Review of Strange Objects Gary Crew , 1990 single work novel ; The Blue Chameleon Katherine Scholes , 1989 single work novel
Grand Translations Agnes Nieuwenhuizen , 1991 single work review
— Appears in: Editions , March-April no. 10 1991; (p. 10-11)
— Review of Strange Objects Gary Crew , 1990 single work novel ; The Blue Chameleon Katherine Scholes , 1989 single work novel
'The Blue Chameleon' by Katherine Scholes Jane Ponting , 1993 single work review
— Appears in: Viewpoint : On Books for Young Adults , Spring vol. 1 no. 3 1993; (p. 26-27)
— Review of The Blue Chameleon Katherine Scholes , 1989 single work novel
Untitled 1990 single work review
— Appears in: The Sydney Morning Herald , 17 March 1990;
— Review of The Blue Chameleon Katherine Scholes , 1989 single work novel
Untitled 1989 single work review
— Appears in: The Age , 16 December 1989;
— Review of The Blue Chameleon Katherine Scholes , 1989 single work novel
Untitled 1990 single work review
— Appears in: The Canberra Times , 13 March 1990; (p. 3)
— Review of The Blue Chameleon Katherine Scholes , 1989 single work novel
New Values, New Awards Maureen Crago , 1991 single work column
— Appears in: Magpies : Talking About Books for Children , September vol. 6 no. 4 1991; (p. 14-16)
Sources of Resilience: Australian Books for Children and Adolescents Don Pemberton , 1990 single work criticism
— Appears in: Children's Literature Association Quarterly , vol. 15 no. 4 1990; (p. 166-167) Pemberton introduces six papers that critically engage with children's books in Australia and present a wide range of subjects and critical approaches. He briefly references the work of the aforementioned authors, quoting from Wrightson's Nargun and the Stars in recognition of the 'mythic potentialities' and 'immense challenge' of writing about what it means to be Australian (166). In this sense it is 'the image of the Australian child' and how this image is situated within and in relation to, the landscape that provides the focus for this issue of the periodical, drawing attention to how 'the dimensions of mythic distance in Australian children's literature are wide indeed' (167). For Pemberton, the authors and texts under discussion utilise 'the idiosyncrasies of Australian idiom, humour and candour' in ways that 'are testimony to a national resilience' and representative of 'the evolution of national identity' (166-67).
Getting Inside the Head of a Chameleon Agnes Nieuwenhuizen , 1990 single work criticism biography
— Appears in: The Age , 17 February 1990; (p. 10)
Other Selves: Subjectivity and the 'Doppelganger' in Australian Adolescent Fiction Robyn McCallum , 1996 single work criticism
— Appears in: Writing the Australian Child : Texts and Contexts in Fictions for Children 1996; (p. 17-36)
'A Green Thought in a Green Shade' : A Study of the Pastoral in Australian Children's Fiction of the 1980s Heather Scutter , 1991 single work criticism
— Appears in: Children's Literature and Contemporary Theory 1991; Papers : Explorations into Children's Literature , April vol. 4 no. 1 1993; (p. 22-37) Scutter canvasses over 20 Australian children's and young adult novels, some in more detail than others, with a view to examining their representation of the 'pastoral'. While drawing attention to the changing significance of how the pastoral is portrayed, Scutter points out that the fundamental paradigm of the pastoral continues to depend upon the dichotomy, or contrast between the city and country (23). Scutter believes that 'the future locus of the pastoral' lies in 'the continued exploration of what is perceived to be other in our lives' (36) and sees the genre as moving in two distinct directions: 'towards the otherness that is within the individual psyche' and 'towards a more expansive otherness', one which takes the pastoral out of the 'secret garden or hidden valley into the wider world' (36).
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  • Melbourne, Victoria,
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