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y separately published work icon Black Dog single work   children's fiction   children's  
Alternative title: First Friend
Issue Details: First known date: 1979... 1979 Black Dog
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When, on her first day, she loses her way in the halls of her new large school, Kerry is confronted by a frightening big black dog who eventually leads her to where she wants to go.

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  • Read on ABC radio, 1984.

Publication Details of Only Known VersionEarliest 2 Known Versions of

    • Sydney, New South Wales,: Collins , 1979 .
      Extent: 32p.
      Description: illus.
      ISBN: 0001843877
    • London,
      c
      England,
      c
      c
      United Kingdom (UK),
      c
      Western Europe, Europe,
      :
      Bodley Head ,
      ca. 1979 .
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      Extent: 32p.
      Description: illus.
      ISBN: 0370303490
    • Ringwood, Ringwood - Croydon - Kilsyth area, Melbourne - East, Melbourne, Victoria,: Puffin , 2000 .
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      Alternative title: First Friend
      Extent: 59 p.p.
      Description: illus.
      ISBN: 014130894X
      Series: y separately published work icon Aussie Nibbles Puffin (publisher), Ringwood : Penguin , 2000-2012 23077643 2000 series - publisher children's fiction children's
Form: audiobook
    • Tullamarine, Keilor - Sunshine area, Melbourne - West, Melbourne, Victoria,: Bolinda Audio Books , 2013 .
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      Extent: 12 minsp.
      Note/s:
      • Published 6 February 2013

Works about this Work

[Review] Poor Fish!, Freeing Billy and Black Dog Judithe Hall , 2000 single work review
— Appears in: Reading Time : The Journal of the Children's Book Council of Australia , November vol. 44 no. 4 2000; (p. 29)

— Review of Freeing Billy Meredith Costain , 2000 single work children's fiction ; Poor Fish! Jane Godwin , 2000 single work children's fiction ; Black Dog Christobel Mattingley , 1979 single work children's fiction
School : A Microcosm of the World Belle Y. Alderman , 1981 single work criticism
— Appears in: Reading Time : The Journal of the Children's Book Council of Australia , April no. 79 1981; (p. 5-11)
Belle Alderman looks at the school story as an important element in children's realistic fiction. Some Australian examples of the school story are included in the discussion.
Untitled Jenny St Hill , 1980 single work review
— Appears in: Reading Time : The Journal of the Children's Book Council of Australia , April no. 75 1980; (p. 31-32)

— Review of Black Dog Christobel Mattingley , 1979 single work children's fiction
[Review] Poor Fish!, Freeing Billy and Black Dog Judithe Hall , 2000 single work review
— Appears in: Reading Time : The Journal of the Children's Book Council of Australia , November vol. 44 no. 4 2000; (p. 29)

— Review of Freeing Billy Meredith Costain , 2000 single work children's fiction ; Poor Fish! Jane Godwin , 2000 single work children's fiction ; Black Dog Christobel Mattingley , 1979 single work children's fiction
Untitled Jenny St Hill , 1980 single work review
— Appears in: Reading Time : The Journal of the Children's Book Council of Australia , April no. 75 1980; (p. 31-32)

— Review of Black Dog Christobel Mattingley , 1979 single work children's fiction
School : A Microcosm of the World Belle Y. Alderman , 1981 single work criticism
— Appears in: Reading Time : The Journal of the Children's Book Council of Australia , April no. 79 1981; (p. 5-11)
Belle Alderman looks at the school story as an important element in children's realistic fiction. Some Australian examples of the school story are included in the discussion.
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