Issue Details: First known date: 1947... vol. 2 no. 4 October 1947 of The Australasian Book News and Literary Journal est. 1947 The Australasian Book News and Literary Journal
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Notes

  • Includes an article by Eleanor Graham on her experience advising Penguin Books on a children's list.
  • Includes 'Primitive Dance' by American dancer Ted Shawn who had been studying corroborees in the Northern Territory.
  • Includes reviews of three 'whodunnits' including Agatha Christie's The Hollow, G-Men on Murder Island by Leland Jamieson and Gerald G. Swan and The Moving Finger by John Barrington.
  • Includes Books Published in Australia: List of Books Supplied to the National Library, Canberra, under the Provisions of the Copyright Act. 27 July - 26 August, 1947 (pp. 219-222)

Contents

* Contents derived from the 1947 version. Please note that other versions/publications may contain different contents. See the Publication Details.
To-Morrow's World: Books Are a Weapon Against Ignorance, George Farwell , single work prose
This editorial situates children in a global context and books as a vital part of their understanding of their situation.
(p. 171)
Drama Offshore, Eve Pownall , single work review
— Review of The Story of Sarli the Barrier Reef Turtle Leslie Rees , 1947 single work children's fiction ;
(p. 172, 178)
What Children Like To Read, Barbara Henderson , single work column (p. 173-74)
Sarli the Barrier Reef Turtle, Leslie Rees , extract children's fiction children's (p. 175, 177-78)
Australian Children's Books Honoured in U.S.A., single work column (p. 180)
Recent Children's Books, single work review
— Review of Pamela Finds the Rainbow Castle Babs McDonald , 1947 single work children's fiction ; Six Comical Stories About Rattigan Rat Paul Buddee , 1947 single work children's fiction ; Glory Bird Veronica Basser , 1947 single work picture book ;
(p. 181, 183)
Library in the School, Elizabeth Hill , single work prose (p. 186-87, 189)
South Australian Favourites, Edith Morley , single work column (p. 193-94)
Tasmanian Book Week, single work column (p. 195)
Children's Play Competition, single work column (p. 195)
Myra Morris and `White Magic', M. W. Peacock , single work biography (p. 204-205,211)
A Mixed Bag, Ken Levis , single work review
— Review of Brindle Royalist : A Story of the Australian Plains Henry G. Lamond , 1946 single work novel ; A Room on the Route : A Novel Godfrey Blunden , 1947 single work novel ;
(p. 206-07)
Not For Publication, Warrigal Jack , single work column (p. 208)
Frenchman Became a Bush Writer, Erica C. Wolff , single work (p. 213-215)
Rondeau in Martin Place Rondeaui"In Martin Place, where swift or slow", Nellie A. Evans , single work poetry (p. 223)
Note: Editor's note: (From The Remembered Valley and Other Poems by Nellie Evans, John Lynch, publisher, 5/-.)

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