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Issue Details: First known date: 1988... 1988 Ali Baba and the Forty Thieves
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'One of the most popular of all the tales of the Arabian Nights. It is a wondrous story, full of excitement and suspense - will Ali Baba manage to escape the terrible revenge of the robbers and their chief? But the real hero of this story is the clever servant, Morgiana, whose quick thinking saves Ali Baba's life.' (Source: GoodReads)

Notes

  • Won the Galley Club of Sydney Award for Excellence in the hardback books under $30 category, 1989.

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

Alternative title: Aribaba to jonjunin no tozoku
Language: Japanese
    • Tokyo, Honshu,
      c
      Japan,
      c
      East Asia, South and East Asia, Asia,      :       Hyoronsha ,       1988 .
      Extent: 27p.
      ISBN: 456600354X
    • Glebe, Glebe - Leichhardt - Balmain area, Sydney Inner West, Sydney, New South Wales,: Walter McVitty Books , 1988 .
      Extent: 28p.
      Description: chiefly col. illus.
      ISBN: 0949183164
    • New York (City), New York (State),
      c
      United States of America (USA),
      c
      Americas,      :       Harry N. Abrams ,       1989 .
      Extent: 36p.
      Note/s:
      • 'The famous story is illustrated in the style of tenth-century Persian miniatures.' (Libraries Australia record).
      • 'retold by Walter McVitty'.(Libraries Australia record).
      ISBN: 0810918889
    • Glebe, Glebe - Leichhardt - Balmain area, Sydney Inner West, Sydney, New South Wales,: Walter McVitty Books , 1990 .
      Extent: 28p.
      Description: col. illus.
      ISBN: 0949183474 (pbk.)
    • Port Melbourne, South Melbourne - Port Melbourne area, Melbourne - Inner South, Melbourne, Victoria,: Lothian , 1998 .
      Extent: 28p.
      Description: col. ill.
      ISBN: 0850919541 (pbk.), 0850919983
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Works about this Work

Artful retelling of Tell tatle Laurie Copping , 1991 single work review
— Appears in: The Canberra Times , 7 September 1991; (p. C8)
— Review of Ali Baba and the Forty Thieves Walter McVitty , 1988 single work picture book
Untitled Walter McVitty , 1990 single work review
— Appears in: The Junior Bookshelf , February vol. 54 no. 1 1990; (p. 15,17)
— Review of Ali Baba and the Forty Thieves Walter McVitty , 1988 single work picture book
Untitled 1990 single work review
— Appears in: The Junior Bookshelf , February vol. 54 no. 1 1990; (p. 17)
— Review of Ali Baba and the Forty Thieves Walter McVitty , 1988 single work picture book
Untitled 1990 single work review
— Appears in: The School Librarian , February vol. 38 no. 1 1990; (p. 15)
— Review of Ali Baba and the Forty Thieves Walter McVitty , 1988 single work picture book
Untitled Mandy Cheetham , 1989 single work review
— Appears in: Magpies : Talking About Books for Children , July vol. 4 no. 3 1989; (p. 30)
— Review of Ali Baba and the Forty Thieves Walter McVitty , 1988 single work picture book
Untitled Mandy Cheetham , 1989 single work review
— Appears in: Magpies : Talking About Books for Children , July vol. 4 no. 3 1989; (p. 30)
— Review of Ali Baba and the Forty Thieves Walter McVitty , 1988 single work picture book
Untitled Marcia Hupp , 1989 single work review
— Appears in: School Library Journal : For Children's, Young Adult and School Librarians , July vol. 35 no. 11 1989; (p. 80)
— Review of Ali Baba and the Forty Thieves Walter McVitty , 1988 single work picture book
Untitled 1989 single work review
— Appears in: Horn Book Magazine , Jul/August vol. 65 no. 4 1989; (p. 494)
— Review of Ali Baba and the Forty Thieves Walter McVitty , 1988 single work picture book
Untitled 1990 single work review
— Appears in: The School Librarian , February vol. 38 no. 1 1990; (p. 15)
— Review of Ali Baba and the Forty Thieves Walter McVitty , 1988 single work picture book
Untitled 1990 single work review
— Appears in: The Junior Bookshelf , February vol. 54 no. 1 1990; (p. 17)
— Review of Ali Baba and the Forty Thieves Walter McVitty , 1988 single work picture book
The Children's Book Council of Australia Awards 1989 1989 single work criticism
— Appears in: Reading Time : The Journal of the Children's Book Council of Australia , vol. 33 no. 3 1989; (p. 3-8) The judges' report for the 1989 Australian Children's Book Council Book of the Year Awards.
Ali Baba's Progress Margaret Early , 1989 single work column
— Appears in: Reading Time : The Journal of the Children's Book Council of Australia , vol. 33 no. 3 1989; (p. 10-11)
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