y separately published work icon Penny Pollard's Diary single work   diary   children's   humour  
Is part of The Penny Pollard Series Robin Klein , 1983 series - author Young Australia. Extension 1983 series - publisher
Issue Details: First known date: 1983... 1983 Penny Pollard's Diary
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Penny's diary reveals her love of horses and her hatred of such things as wearing dresses, doing homework and old people until a meeting with the unusual eighty-one-year-old Mrs. Edith Bettany begins to challenge her point of view.

Adaptations

form y separately published work icon Kaboodle Penny Robenstone , Jeff Peck , Hazel Edwards , Pat Edwards , John Taylor , Alan Love , Murray Oliver , Steve French , Morris Gleitzman , Peter Viska , Paul Cox , Sue Smith , Gary Davis , Jan Sardi , Peita Letchford , Julia Gardiner , Shirley Barrett , Cate Cahill , Mark Osborn , Jennifer Mellet , Maggie Geddes , Neil Robinson , Jill Morris , John Skibinski , Sue Rendall , Greg Millin , Richard Chataway , Michael Cusack , Ross Gathercole , Paul Williams , ABC Television (publisher), ( dir. Jan Sardi et. al. )agent 1987 Australia : Australian Children's Television Foundation ABC Television , Z1398900 1987 series - publisher film/TV children's fantasy science fiction humour adventure horror

An anthology series of children's stories, mixing live-action episodes with animation, clay animation, and puppetry. The stories, aimed specifically at the under 10s, are drawn from a variety of sources, including children's books, fairy tales, myths, and original ideas. Some of the episodes have involved, for example, Snow White as a punk bikie and the seven dwarves as a motorcycle gang; a pet stegosaurus; a boy with wheels instead of toes; and Trevor the glider-plane-catching cat.

According to Patricia Edgar,

Thirty separate self-contained dramas of differing lengths were to be packaged into half-hour episodes. The project was designed to showcase new, creative talent in the television industry. Competitions were run at the Australian Film and Television School and Swinburne Institute of Technology for the best concepts suitable for inclusion in the Kaboodle package, with prizes of $1000 awarded. The Foundation sought promising but inexperienced writers, would-be producers, directors and even accountants who wanted to earn their first credit to enable them to find a future in the industry.

Source: Patricia Edgar, Bloodbath: A Memoir of Australian Television, Melbourne: Melbourne UP, 2006, pp.175-76.

Kaboodle was produced in two series, the first of which included some live-action segements, but the second of which was entirely animated.

For a full list of episodes, see Film Details.

Episode listing for Kaboodle series two courtesy of the Australian Children's Television Foundation.

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

Language: Japanese

Other Formats

  • Also braille, sound recording.

Works about this Work

Jo Goodman Revisits the Work of Robin Klein Jo Goodman , 2005 single work column
— Appears in: Magpies : Talking About Books for Children , March vol. 20 no. 1 2005; (p. 10-13)
Fiction Lorien Kaye , 2004 single work review
— Appears in: The Age , 28 February 2004; (p. 6)

— Review of Penny Pollard's Diary Robin Klein , 1983 single work diary
Rereading Robin Klein Mark Macleod , 2001 single work criticism
— Appears in: Viewpoint : On Books for Young Adults , Spring vol. 9 no. 3 2001; (p. 8-11)
Changing Perspectives : The Implied Reader in Australian Children's Literature 1841-1994 H. M. Saxby , 1995 single work criticism
— Appears in: Children's Literature in Education , March vol. 26 no. 1 1995; (p. 25-38)
In Context : Some Recent Australian Writing for Adolescents I. V. Hansen , 1989 single work criticism
— Appears in: Children's Literature in Education , September vol. 20 no. 3 1989; (p. 151-163)
Untitled Leslie Derksen , 1984 single work review
— Appears in: Fremantle Arts Centre Broadsheet , November - December vol. 3 no. 6 1984; (p. 2-3)

— Review of Penny Pollard's Diary Robin Klein , 1983 single work diary
Fiction Lorien Kaye , 2004 single work review
— Appears in: The Age , 28 February 2004; (p. 6)

— Review of Penny Pollard's Diary Robin Klein , 1983 single work diary
Untitled Mark Tonkiss , 1984 single work review
— Appears in: Review (South Australia. School Libraries Branch) , September vol. 12 no. 3 1984; (p. 18)

— Review of Penny Pollard's Diary Robin Klein , 1983 single work diary
Untitled 1984 single work review
— Appears in: The Sydney Morning Herald , 22 July 1984; (p. 3)

— Review of Penny Pollard's Diary Robin Klein , 1983 single work diary
Untitled 1984 single work review
— Appears in: The Age , 21 July 1984;

— Review of Penny Pollard's Diary Robin Klein , 1983 single work diary
Jo Goodman Revisits the Work of Robin Klein Jo Goodman , 2005 single work column
— Appears in: Magpies : Talking About Books for Children , March vol. 20 no. 1 2005; (p. 10-13)
Changing Perspectives : The Implied Reader in Australian Children's Literature 1841-1994 H. M. Saxby , 1995 single work criticism
— Appears in: Children's Literature in Education , March vol. 26 no. 1 1995; (p. 25-38)
Rereading Robin Klein Mark Macleod , 2001 single work criticism
— Appears in: Viewpoint : On Books for Young Adults , Spring vol. 9 no. 3 2001; (p. 8-11)
Judges' Report, 1984 1984 single work criticism
— Appears in: Reading Time : The Journal of the Children's Book Council of Australia , July no. 92 1984; (p. 6-13)
Robin Klein on Writing for Children Robin Klein , 1984 single work criticism
— Appears in: Reading Time : The Journal of the Children's Book Council of Australia , July no. 92 1984; (p. 15-16)
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