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y separately published work icon Colour in the Creek single work   children's fiction   children's  
Is part of Colour in the Creek Trilogy Margaret Paice , 1976 series - author children's fiction (number 1 in series)
Issue Details: First known date: 1976... 1976 Colour in the Creek
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Adaptations

form y separately published work icon Colour in the Creek Sonia Borg , ( dir. Rob Stewart ) Australia : PBL Productions Nine Network , 1985 Z976673 1985 series - publisher film/TV children's

Set during the Depression, the story follows a Queensland family who uproot and move to the goldfields after the father hears of a strike.

Notes

  • Forms part of a trilogy with Shadow of Wings (1978) and Applewood (1986). The first two novels were made into a television series Colour in the Creek (1985).
  • 'Colour in the Creek (7) is almost completely about a place remembered from childhood, but the characters are fictitious, or composites, anyhow.' Margaret Paice, 'A Dream Metamorphosed', Writing and Illustrating for Children : Children's Book Council of the A.C.T. : seminars 1975-80 ed. Eleanor Stodart (1985): 128-132.

Publication Details of Only Known VersionEarliest 2 Known Versions of

    • Sydney, New South Wales,: Collins , 1976 .
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      Extent: 176p.
      ISBN: 0001850180
    • Ringwood, Ringwood - Croydon - Kilsyth area, Melbourne - East, Melbourne, Victoria,: Puffin , 1985 .
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      Extent: 176p.
      ISBN: 0140320148
Alternative title: Pay Jagt Efter Guld
Language: Danish
    • Copenhagen,
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      Denmark,
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      Branner ,
      1977 .
      Extent: 163p.
      ISBN: 8741145623

Works about this Work

Untitled Hazel Hume , 1976 single work review
— Appears in: Reading Time : The Official Journal of the Children's Book Council of Australia , October no. 61 1976; (p. 22-23)

— Review of Colour in the Creek Margaret Paice , 1976 single work children's fiction
Untitled Hazel Hume , 1976 single work review
— Appears in: Reading Time : The Official Journal of the Children's Book Council of Australia , October no. 61 1976; (p. 22-23)

— Review of Colour in the Creek Margaret Paice , 1976 single work children's fiction
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