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Issue Details: First known date: 1994... 1994 Where the Whales Sing
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"When Claire is stranded on the boat after her father is thrown overboard in a storm, she spends days and nights alone, her only solace being the whales that seem strangely to accompany and protect her." (Source: Trove)

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Notes

  • Dedication: 'For Leila' (V.K.) 'For my father' (V.G.)
  • Epigraph: 'I shall sleep, and move with the moving ships, / Change as the winds change, veer in the tide.' (A.C. Swinburne, The Triumph of Time).

Affiliation Notes

  • This work is affiliated with the AustLit subset Asian-Australian Children's Literature and Publishing because it has a Japanese translation.

Publication Details of Only Known VersionEarliest 2 Known Versions of

    • Ringwood, Ringwood - Croydon - Kilsyth area, Melbourne - East, Melbourne, Victoria,: Viking , 1994 .
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      Cover image courtesy of publisher.
      Extent: 61 p., [4] leaves of platesp.
      Description: illus. (some col.)
      ISBN: 0670832081
    • Ringwood, Ringwood - Croydon - Kilsyth area, Melbourne - East, Melbourne, Victoria,: Puffin , 1997 .
      Extent: 61p.
      ISBN: 0140344934
Alternative title: Kujira no uta ga kikoeru
Alternative title: クジラの歌がきこえる
Language: Japanese
    • Tokyo, Honshu,
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      Japan,
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      East Asia, South and East Asia, Asia,      :       Kin no Hoshisha ,       1996 .
      Extent: 139p.
      Description: illus.
      ISBN: 4323025211
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  • Also braille, sound recording.
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Works about this Work

Untitled Lee Finkelstein , 1995 single work review
— Appears in: Reading Time : The Journal of the Children's Book Council of Australia , February vol. 39 no. 1 1995; (p. 31)
— Review of Where the Whales Sing Victor Kelleher , 1994 single work picture book
Untitled Josephine Schaefer , 1994 single work review
— Appears in: Fiction Focus : New Titles for Teenagers , vol. 8 no. 2 1994; (p. 24)
— Review of Where the Whales Sing Victor Kelleher , 1994 single work picture book
Victor Kelleher : A Common Heritage Sophie Masson , 1994 single work column
— Appears in: Reading Time : The Journal of the Children's Book Council of Australia , November vol. 38 no. 4 1994; (p. 8-9)
Form, Content in Harmony Stephen Matthews , 1994 single work review
— Appears in: The Canberra Times , 16 July 1994; (p. C10)
— Review of Where the Whales Sing Victor Kelleher , 1994 single work picture book
Cover Book : Where the Whales Sing John Murray , 1994 single work review
— Appears in: Magpies : Talking About Books for Children , May vol. 9 no. 2 1994; (p. 4)
— Review of Where the Whales Sing Victor Kelleher , 1994 single work picture book
Untitled Josephine Schaefer , 1994 single work review
— Appears in: Fiction Focus : New Titles for Teenagers , vol. 8 no. 2 1994; (p. 24)
— Review of Where the Whales Sing Victor Kelleher , 1994 single work picture book
Family Ties that Strangle Nicola Robinson , 1994 single work review
— Appears in: The Weekend Australian , 2-3 July 1994; (p. rev 5)
— Review of Family : A Collection of Short Stories 1994 anthology short story ; Where the Whales Sing Victor Kelleher , 1994 single work picture book
Whale of a Tale Karen Deb , 1994 single work review
— Appears in: The Advertiser Magazine , 2 July 1994; (p. 3)
— Review of Where the Whales Sing Victor Kelleher , 1994 single work picture book
Helpful Friends Needed Meg Sorensen , 1994 single work review
— Appears in: Australian Book Review , July no. 162 1994; (p. 66-67)
— Review of Where the Whales Sing Victor Kelleher , 1994 single work picture book ; Peter and the Polar Bear Elizabeth Best , 1994 single work picture book
Untitled Jeri Kroll , 1994 single work review
— Appears in: Viewpoint : On Books for Young Adults , Spring vol. 2 no. 3 1994; (p. 36-37)
— Review of Where the Whales Sing Victor Kelleher , 1994 single work picture book
Victor Kelleher : A Common Heritage Sophie Masson , 1994 single work column
— Appears in: Reading Time : The Journal of the Children's Book Council of Australia , November vol. 38 no. 4 1994; (p. 8-9)
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