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Issue Details: First known date: 1953... 1953 Good Luck to the Rider
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A twelve-year-old girl, youngest of four children, adopts an orphaned, unlikely foal named Rosinante just before she leaves for boarding school, and, with the vision of her own horse to inspire her, begins to gain assurance and maturity.

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Alternative title: Lycka till, ryttare
Language: Swedish

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Works about this Work

Shifting Versions of Masculinity in Australian Children's Literature, 1953-1997 Beverley Pennell , 2001 single work criticism
— Appears in: Bookbird , vol. 39 no. 2 2001; (p. 6-11)
Pennell encountered significant change with regard to the concept of 'masculinity' in Australian realist children's fiction. She decided a major outcome of her research would be a literary sociocultural map of the shifting paradigms of gendered social relations in Australian society.
John Marsden Presents... Stella Lees , 2001 single work criticism
— Appears in: Viewpoint : On Books for Young Adults , Winter vol. 9 no. 2 2001; (p. 30-33)
One Man's Classics Margaret Robson Kett , 2001 single work review
— Appears in: Australian Book Review , May no. 230 2001; (p. 62-63)

— Review of Peter & Co. Mary Grant Bruce , 1940 single work children's fiction ; Tiger in the Bush Nan Chauncy , 1957 single work children's fiction autobiography ; Good Luck to the Rider Joan Phipson , 1953 single work children's fiction ; Seventeen Seconds Ivan Southall , 1973 single work biography ; John Marsden Presents Australian Children's Classics series - publisher
Footprints on the Sands of Time H. M. Saxby , 2001 single work criticism
— Appears in: Magpies : Talking About Books for Children , May vol. 16 no. 2 2001; (p. 4-7)
One Man's Classics Margaret Robson Kett , 2001 single work review
— Appears in: Australian Book Review , May no. 230 2001; (p. 62-63)

— Review of Peter & Co. Mary Grant Bruce , 1940 single work children's fiction ; Tiger in the Bush Nan Chauncy , 1957 single work children's fiction autobiography ; Good Luck to the Rider Joan Phipson , 1953 single work children's fiction ; Seventeen Seconds Ivan Southall , 1973 single work biography ; John Marsden Presents Australian Children's Classics series - publisher
Shifting Versions of Masculinity in Australian Children's Literature, 1953-1997 Beverley Pennell , 2001 single work criticism
— Appears in: Bookbird , vol. 39 no. 2 2001; (p. 6-11)
Pennell encountered significant change with regard to the concept of 'masculinity' in Australian realist children's fiction. She decided a major outcome of her research would be a literary sociocultural map of the shifting paradigms of gendered social relations in Australian society.
Footprints on the Sands of Time H. M. Saxby , 2001 single work criticism
— Appears in: Magpies : Talking About Books for Children , May vol. 16 no. 2 2001; (p. 4-7)
John Marsden Presents... Stella Lees , 2001 single work criticism
— Appears in: Viewpoint : On Books for Young Adults , Winter vol. 9 no. 2 2001; (p. 30-33)

Awards

1953 joint winner CBCA Book of the Year Awards Book of the Year Award With Aircraft of Today and Tomorrow.
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