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Issue Details: First known date: 1978... 1978 A Foreign Father
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As a German wool buyer in Sydney, Paul Gerder has a difficult time during the war years of the Great War 1914-1918. When it's finally over, he takes his family away to a new life on a banana farm in Queensland. His children, Dot and Robert, grow doubtful and uneasy over their magnificent but foreign father who is so different from everyone else, but finally come to see him clearly. Seen through the eyes of young Robert, this is an autobiographical narrative which reflects the author's childhood. (Libraries Australia)

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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).
Untitled Millicent Jones , 1979 single work review
— Appears in: Reading Time : The Journal of the Children's Book Council of Australia , April vol. 71 no. 1979; (p. 43)
— Review of A Foreign Father Paul Metzler , 1978 single work children's fiction
Untitled Millicent Jones , 1979 single work review
— Appears in: Reading Time : The Journal of the Children's Book Council of Australia , April vol. 71 no. 1979; (p. 43)
— Review of A Foreign Father Paul Metzler , 1978 single work children's fiction
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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Subjects:
  • Sydney, New South Wales,
  • Queensland,
  • ca. 1918-1939
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