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Issue Details: First known date: 1989... 1989 Dream Time : New Stories by Sixteen Award-Winning Authors
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'A collection of sixteen short stories, produced by asking authors recognized or awarded by the Australian Book Council to write on the theme of "Dream Time."' 

(Publication summary)

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  • Sound recording available.

Contents

* Contents derived from the Ringwood, Ringwood - Croydon - Kilsyth area, Melbourne - East, Melbourne, Victoria,:Viking Kestrel , 1989 version. Please note that other versions/publications may contain different contents. See the Publication Details.
Dolphin Dreaming, Gillian Rubinstein , single work short story (p. 1-14)
Up Taree Way, Libby Hathorn , single work short story (p. 15-26)
The Dreamer, John Marsden , single work short story (p. 27-36)
Mr Pemberley Checks the Gate, Morris Lurie , single work short story (p. 37-44)
Night of Passage, Lee Harding , single work short story science fiction

The story 'tells of a young girl earning her womanhood in an eerie adventure in a strangely deserted city.'

Source: 'Dreams and Illusions Bear Literary Fruit', Canberra Times, 19 August 1989, p.27.

(p. 45-58)
Aunt Millicent, Mary Steele , single work short story

An eccentric family invent for themselves a fascinating aunt.

(p. 59-78)
Castle Hawksmere, Allan Baillie , single work short story (p. 79-86)
You Can't Keep a Unicorn, Patricia Wrightson , single work short story fantasy

A blue heeler pup impersonates a unicorn.

(p. 87-98)
Initiation, Christobel Mattingley , single work short story

'Christobel Mattingley's very short story creates in a mere five pages a moving vignette of the frustration experienced by a young Aboriginal boy trying to find a job in a world which does not want him. So he joins the listless black crowd outside the pub watching hordes of tourists in their Range Rovers, Mercedes, and Volvos as they point their cameras at the nearby ancestral hunting grounds. It is a bitter tale.'

Source: 'Dreams and Illusions Bear Literary Fruit', Canberra Times, 19 August 1989, p.27.

(p. 99-104)
Zelda, Emily Rodda , single work short story fantasy (p. 105-112)
Not for the Ear of Alice, Ivan Southall , single work short story (p. 113-124)
Sleepwalkman, Ted Greenwood , single work short story fantasy

'A boy sits in assembly, daydreaming, while the headmaster drones on about school standards and discipline and littering and whatnot. Young Le Fevre daydreams about the school librarian who, like so many of her ilk, would rather keep all the books and tapes neatly stacked away than hand them out to messy students, and about his family and about his splendid invention which turns your mind off while you continue to look attentive. Here indeed is a schoolboy's dream.'

Source: 'Dreams and Illusions Bear Literary Fruit', Canberra Times, 19 August 1989, p.27.

(p. 125-134)
River Serpent, Victor Kelleher , single work short story (p. 135-144)
Miss Fabergé's Last Daze, Jenny Wagner , single work short story fantasy (p. 145-158)
Silent Reporter, Frank Willmott , single work short story (p. 159-172)
The Mimics, Thurley Fowler , single work short story (p. 173-184)

Publication Details of Only Known VersionEarliest 2 Known Versions of

    • Ringwood, Ringwood - Croydon - Kilsyth area, Melbourne - East, Melbourne, Victoria,: Viking Kestrel , 1989 .
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      Extent: viii, 184p.p.
      Description: illus.
      ISBN: 0670829005
    • Ringwood, Ringwood - Croydon - Kilsyth area, Melbourne - East, Melbourne, Victoria,: Puffin , 1989 .
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      Extent: 184pp.
      Description: illus.
      Reprinted: 1990 Subsequent reprints of this ed. are undated, 5th reprint 1998.
      ISBN: 0140342613 (pbk.)
    • Boston, Massachusetts,
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      United States of America (USA),
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      Americas,
      :
      Houghton Mifflin ,
      1991 .
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      Link: 19214314Access online Sighted: 07/05/2020
      Extent: 184p.
      Edition info: 1st American ed.
      ISBN: 039557434X

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Parties in Print : A Decade of Stories John Appleton , 2023 single work review
— Appears in: Magpies : Talking About Books for Children , March vol. 38 no. 1 2023; (p. 4-7)

— Review of The Blue Dress : Stories 1991 anthology short story ; Beetle Soup : Australian Stories and Poems for Children 1996 anthology poetry children's fiction ; Bushland Stories Amy Eleanor Mack , 1910 selected work children's fiction ; Tales from the Wasteland : Stories from the 13th Floor 2000 anthology short story ; Love Me, Love Me Not Libby Gleeson , 1993 selected work children's fiction ; Landmarks : Nine New Australian Stories 1991 anthology short story ; Before Dawn : More Tales to Read at Night 1988 anthology children's fiction ; Dream Time : New Stories by Sixteen Award-Winning Authors 1989 anthology short story
Dream Time 1989 single work column
— Appears in: Magpies : Talking About Books for Children , July vol. 4 no. 3 1989; (p. 23)
Untitled Laurie Copping , 1989 single work review
— Appears in: Reading Time : The Journal of the Children's Book Council of Australia , vol. 33 no. 3 1989; (p. 32)

— Review of Dream Time : New Stories by Sixteen Award-Winning Authors 1989 anthology short story
Children's Books Meg Sorensen , 1989 single work review
— Appears in: Australian Book Review , September no. 114 1989; (p. 45-46)

— Review of The Smiling Madonna Deirdre Hill , 1989 single work novel ; Came Back to Show You I Could Fly Robin Klein , 1989 single work novel ; Balyet Patricia Wrightson , 1989 single work novel ; Dream Time : New Stories by Sixteen Award-Winning Authors 1989 anthology short story
Children's Books Meg Sorensen , 1989 single work review
— Appears in: Australian Book Review , September no. 114 1989; (p. 45-46)

— Review of The Smiling Madonna Deirdre Hill , 1989 single work novel ; Came Back to Show You I Could Fly Robin Klein , 1989 single work novel ; Balyet Patricia Wrightson , 1989 single work novel ; Dream Time : New Stories by Sixteen Award-Winning Authors 1989 anthology short story
Untitled Laurie Copping , 1989 single work review
— Appears in: Reading Time : The Journal of the Children's Book Council of Australia , vol. 33 no. 3 1989; (p. 32)

— Review of Dream Time : New Stories by Sixteen Award-Winning Authors 1989 anthology short story
Parties in Print : A Decade of Stories John Appleton , 2023 single work review
— Appears in: Magpies : Talking About Books for Children , March vol. 38 no. 1 2023; (p. 4-7)

— Review of The Blue Dress : Stories 1991 anthology short story ; Beetle Soup : Australian Stories and Poems for Children 1996 anthology poetry children's fiction ; Bushland Stories Amy Eleanor Mack , 1910 selected work children's fiction ; Tales from the Wasteland : Stories from the 13th Floor 2000 anthology short story ; Love Me, Love Me Not Libby Gleeson , 1993 selected work children's fiction ; Landmarks : Nine New Australian Stories 1991 anthology short story ; Before Dawn : More Tales to Read at Night 1988 anthology children's fiction ; Dream Time : New Stories by Sixteen Award-Winning Authors 1989 anthology short story
Dream Time 1989 single work column
— Appears in: Magpies : Talking About Books for Children , July vol. 4 no. 3 1989; (p. 23)
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