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y separately published work icon A Strange Visitor single work   picture book   children's   horror  
Issue Details: First known date: 1987... 1987 A Strange Visitor
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'This is a very old story from Scotland which is best told on a dark night. In the story, an old lady who lived by herself wanted someone to come and visit her because she was lonely. Then one night someone did come to visit her – but it was a STRANGE visitor.'

Source: Publisher's blurb.

Notes

  • A re-writing of an old story, usually called 'Give Me My Bone', in which a skeleton turns up to demand the return of a bone that an old woman has already put in her soup pot.

Publication Details of Only Known VersionEarliest 2 Known Versions of

    • South Melbourne, South Melbourne - Port Melbourne area, Melbourne - Inner South, Melbourne, Victoria,: Macmillan , 1987 .
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      Extent: 26p.
      Description: chiefly col. illus.
      ISBN: 0333450299
    • South Melbourne, South Melbourne - Port Melbourne area, Melbourne - Inner South, Melbourne, Victoria,: Macmillan , 1988 .
      Extent: 24p.
      ISBN: 0333500717
      Series: y separately published work icon Australian Picturemac Macmillan (publisher), South Melbourne : Macmillan , 1987-1992 Z1013238 1987-1992 series - publisher picture book children's
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  • Also braille.
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Works about this Work

Untitled Peter Bansel , 1988 single work review
— Appears in: Magpies : Talking About Books for Children , July vol. 3 no. 3 1988; (p. 37)
— Review of A Strange Visitor Mary O'Toole , 1987 single work picture book
Untitled Laurie Copping , 1988 single work review
— Appears in: The Canberra Times , 16 April 1988; (p. B4)
— Review of A Strange Visitor Mary O'Toole , 1987 single work picture book
Untitled Peter Bansel , 1988 single work review
— Appears in: Magpies : Talking About Books for Children , July vol. 3 no. 3 1988; (p. 37)
— Review of A Strange Visitor Mary O'Toole , 1987 single work picture book
Untitled Laurie Copping , 1988 single work review
— Appears in: The Canberra Times , 16 April 1988; (p. B4)
— Review of A Strange Visitor Mary O'Toole , 1987 single work picture book
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