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Issue Details: First known date: 1972... 1972 An Older Kind of Magic
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'Beneath the earth are older things than perhaps we understand; as old as the ground in which they live, and part of it. Every so often, when the time is right, the Nyol, Net-Net, Pot-Koorak and Bitarr appear again above the earth to visit the world that was once theirs alone.'

Source: Publisher's blurb (Puffin edition).

Publication Details of Only Known VersionEarliest 2 Known Versions of

    • London,
      c
      England,
      c
      c
      United Kingdom (UK),
      c
      Western Europe, Europe,
      :
      Richmond, East Melbourne - Richmond area, Melbourne, Victoria,: Hutchinson ,
      1972 .
      image of person or book cover 4483415211289294236.jpg
      This image has been sourced from online (1974 Hutchinson reprint)
      Extent: 151p.
      Description: illus.
      ISBN: 0091114306
    • New York (City), New York (State),
      c
      United States of America (USA),
      c
      Americas,
      :
      Harcourt Brace Jovanovich ,
      1972 .
      image of person or book cover 7068062449341686847.jpg
      This image has been sourced from online
      Extent: 186p.
      Edition info: 1st American
      Description: illus.
      ISBN: 0152036008
    • Ringwood, Ringwood - Croydon - Kilsyth area, Melbourne - East, Melbourne, Victoria,: Puffin , 1974 .
      image of person or book cover 3954992238152123238.jpg
      This image has been sourced from online
      Extent: 149p.
      Description: illus.
      ISBN: 0140307397
Alternative title: E magemene nuchta
Language: Greek
Notes:
Patrisia Raitson ; metaphrase, Kira Sinou ; eikonographese, Elene Arvanite
    • Athens,
      c
      Greece,
      c
      Western Europe, Europe,
      :
      Metope ,
      1982 .
      Extent: 194p.
      Description: illus.

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  • Sound recording.

Works about this Work

The Gift and the Ethics of Representing Aboriginality in Australian Children's Literature Xu Daozhi , 2016 single work criticism
— Appears in: Australian Aboriginal Studies , no. 2 2016; (p. 33-45)

'This paper draws on theories of the gift to address the ethics of representing Aboriginality in Australian children's literature, which is a contentious debate that centres on who is eligible to tell Aboriginal stories and how the stories can be told. Considering the historical indebtedness in Australian racial relations, the paper suggests that children's books that incorporate reference to Aboriginal cultural elements constitute a metaphorical 'gift' exchange between Aboriginal custodians as the givers and writers as the recipients who are expected to 'return' such an intellectual gift through their books in an appropriate manner. In this view, the paper specifies the ethical issues confronted by non-Aboriginal writers for children, including Patricia Wrightson, Phillip Gwynne and Kate Constable, and examines the way in which the gift relationship sheds light on the question of how to avoid infringement of Aboriginal protocols without submitting to self-censorship. A caring gesture, underlining the relationship between self and others in gift exchanges, is identified to negotiate the writer's interests in Aboriginal stories with cultural sensitivity against unauthorised appropriation. The paper therefore argues that the morality of gift exchanges, which demands a balanced consideration of disparate interests in obligatory reciprocation, offers a possible solution to the dilemma of non-Aboriginal writers in the treatment of Aboriginal subject matter.' (Publication abstract)

Patricia Wrightson : A Dreaming - Lilith Norman Talks About an Old Friend Lilith Norman , 1994 single work column
— Appears in: Magpies : Talking About Books for Children , November vol. 9 no. 5 1994; (p. 18-20)
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)
Patricia Wrightson : the Making of Myth John Cohen , 1978 single work criticism
— Appears in: Reading Time : The Official Journal of the Children's Book Council of Australia , July no. 68 1978; (p. 11-14)
Hurtling into Freedom Patricia Wrightson , 1974 single work autobiography
— Appears in: Reading Time : The Official Journal of the Children's Book Council of Australia , July no. 52 1974; (p. 6-7)
Untitled H. M. Saxby , 1973 single work review
— Appears in: Reading Time : New Books for Boys and Girls , January no. 46 1973; (p. 29)

— Review of An Older Kind of Magic Patricia Wrightson , 1972 single work children's fiction
Patricia Wrightson : A Dreaming - Lilith Norman Talks About an Old Friend Lilith Norman , 1994 single work column
— Appears in: Magpies : Talking About Books for Children , November vol. 9 no. 5 1994; (p. 18-20)
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)
Children's Book Council of Australia Judges' Report 1973 1973 single work criticism
— Appears in: Reading Time : New Books for Boys and Girls , July no. 48 1973; (p. 3-5)
Hurtling into Freedom Patricia Wrightson , 1974 single work autobiography
— Appears in: Reading Time : The Official Journal of the Children's Book Council of Australia , July no. 52 1974; (p. 6-7)
Patricia Wrightson : the Making of Myth John Cohen , 1978 single work criticism
— Appears in: Reading Time : The Official Journal of the Children's Book Council of Australia , July no. 68 1978; (p. 11-14)
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