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Issue Details: First known date: 1990... 1990 Boy Soldiers
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Notes

  • Book published in conjunction with the corresponding children's/young adult drama series that was produced by the Australian Children's Television Foundation.
  • Dedication: To David
  • Epigraph: In 1910 the Australian Government passed a law requiring all boys aged between fourteen and seventeen years to register for compulsory military training. Between 1911 and 1915, 34 000 boys were prosecuted for failing to obey this law. This is the story of two such boys.
  • Author's note: Cliff Green wishes to express his gratitude to Mark Joffe, who, as director of the telemovie Boy Soldiers, contributed much to the shaping of the screenplay upon which this book is based.

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form y separately published work icon Boy Soldiers Cliff Green , ( dir. Mark Joffe ) 1990 Z1561362 1990 single work film/TV children's young adult war literature

'In 1910 the Australian Government passed a law requiring all boys aged between 14 and 17 years of age to register for compulsory military training. Will Barnes is a 14-year-old conscientious objector who refuses to register. He is sentenced to three months training at Fort Queenscliff, where he meets a lot of opposition, but also wins his share of admirers for sticking to his beliefs.'

Source: Australian Television Information Archive (http://www.australiantelevision.net/more_winners.html). Sighted: 10/11/2011
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Attitudes to War in Australian Children's Literature Anne M. O'Sullivan , 1994 single work criticism
— Appears in: Papers : Explorations into Children's Literature , April vol. 5 no. 1 1994; (p. 34-48) O'Sullivan seeks to 'identify attitudes to war in Australian children's literature' in the period 1914-1994, noting in particular the movement from identification with Britain and the Empire in the early decades of this period to an affinity with Asia and the Pacific in the latter decades (34). The discussion begins with a literature review of Australian and overseas critical research in this field and then surveys a large number of (mainly Australian) novels with war as the central/pivotal theme. O'Sullivan concludes that there has been a change in attitudes to war in Australian children's literature, whereby 'once Australia was part of the British Empire and prepared to fight for that anywhere in the world, now multicultural Australia takes a broader view and sees herself as part of a global family' (47).
Playing Soldiers Ian Stevenson , 1991 single work review
— Appears in: Northern Perspective , Dry Season vol. 14 no. l 1991; (p. 114-116)
— Review of The Glass Cannon : A Bougainville Diary 1944-45 Peter Pinney , 1990 single work novel ; Boy Soldiers Cliff Green , 1990 single work novel
Untitled Kevin Steinberger , 1990 single work review
— Appears in: Magpies : Talking About Books for Children , November vol. 5 no. 5 1990; (p. 32)
— Review of Boy Soldiers Cliff Green , 1990 single work novel
Untitled 1990 single work review
— Appears in: The Age , 6 July 1990;
— Review of Boy Soldiers Cliff Green , 1990 single work novel
Untitled Kevin Steinberger , 1990 single work review
— Appears in: Magpies : Talking About Books for Children , November vol. 5 no. 5 1990; (p. 32)
— Review of Boy Soldiers Cliff Green , 1990 single work novel
Playing Soldiers Ian Stevenson , 1991 single work review
— Appears in: Northern Perspective , Dry Season vol. 14 no. l 1991; (p. 114-116)
— Review of The Glass Cannon : A Bougainville Diary 1944-45 Peter Pinney , 1990 single work novel ; Boy Soldiers Cliff Green , 1990 single work novel
Untitled 1990 single work review
— Appears in: The Age , 6 July 1990;
— Review of Boy Soldiers Cliff Green , 1990 single work novel
Attitudes to War in Australian Children's Literature Anne M. O'Sullivan , 1994 single work criticism
— Appears in: Papers : Explorations into Children's Literature , April vol. 5 no. 1 1994; (p. 34-48) O'Sullivan seeks to 'identify attitudes to war in Australian children's literature' in the period 1914-1994, noting in particular the movement from identification with Britain and the Empire in the early decades of this period to an affinity with Asia and the Pacific in the latter decades (34). The discussion begins with a literature review of Australian and overseas critical research in this field and then surveys a large number of (mainly Australian) novels with war as the central/pivotal theme. O'Sullivan concludes that there has been a change in attitudes to war in Australian children's literature, whereby 'once Australia was part of the British Empire and prepared to fight for that anywhere in the world, now multicultural Australia takes a broader view and sees herself as part of a global family' (47).
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Settings:
  • Queenscliff, Queenscliff area (Bellarine Peninsula), Geelong - Terang - Lake Bolac area, Victoria,
  • 1910s
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