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Issue Details: First known date: 1989... 1989 Bushfire Moon
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In the year of 1891 Ned O'Day mistakes a curmudgeonly old swagman for Father Christmas, and attempts to imbue him with the Christmas spirit.

Notes

  • Adapted from the 1987 film Miracle Down Under.

Publication Details of Only Known VersionEarliest 2 Known Versions of

    • Ringwood, Ringwood - Croydon - Kilsyth area, Melbourne - East, Melbourne, Victoria,: Puffin , 1989 .
      Extent: 109p.
      ISBN: 014034103X (pbk.)
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  • Also braille and sound recording.
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form y separately published work icon Miracle Down Under The Christmas Visitor; Bushfire Moon Jeff Peck , ( dir. George T. Miller ) Melbourne : Entertainment Media , 1987 Z1368065 1987 single work film/TV historical fiction children's

In the Australian outback, a young boy becomes determines to help an old miser develop a proper sense of the Christmas spirit.
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Works about this Work

Untitled Robyn Sheahan-Bright , 1990 single work review
— Appears in: Magpies : Talking About Books for Children , September vol. 5 no. 4 1990; (p. 33)
— Review of Bushfire Moon Jeff Peck , 1989 single work children's fiction
Untitled Margot Nelmes , 1990 single work review
— Appears in: Reading Time : The Journal of the Children's Book Council of Australia , vol. 34 no. 2 1990; (p. 20)
— Review of Bushfire Moon Jeff Peck , 1989 single work children's fiction
Untitled Robyn Sheahan-Bright , 1990 single work review
— Appears in: Magpies : Talking About Books for Children , September vol. 5 no. 4 1990; (p. 33)
— Review of Bushfire Moon Jeff Peck , 1989 single work children's fiction
Untitled Margot Nelmes , 1990 single work review
— Appears in: Reading Time : The Journal of the Children's Book Council of Australia , vol. 34 no. 2 1990; (p. 20)
— Review of Bushfire Moon Jeff Peck , 1989 single work children's fiction
VIEW ALL WORKS ABOUT (2)
Last amended 23 Mar 2007 14:31:31
Subjects:
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  • Australian Outback, Central Australia,
  • 1891
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