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y separately published work icon Sharpur the Carpet Snake single work   picture book   children's  
Issue Details: First known date: 1967... 1967 Sharpur the Carpet Snake
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Sharpur, the carpet snake, quietly goes about his night work of keeping down the rat population at the local fruit market. But when he unexpectedly appears during the day the pandemonium he creates may result in Sharpur being banned from the market altogether.

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Other Formats

  • Also braille, sound recording.

Works about this Work

Untitled Howard George , 1987 single work review
— Appears in: Reading Time : The Journal of the Children's Book Council of Australia , vol. 31 no. 3 1987; (p. 53)

— Review of Sharpur the Carpet Snake Lydia Pender , 1967 single work picture book
Untitled Amanda Swaney , 1983 single work review
— Appears in: Reading Time : The Journal of the Children's Book Council of Australia , January no. 86 1983; (p. 30-31)

— Review of Sharpur the Carpet Snake Lydia Pender , 1967 single work picture book
Three Australian Picture Books Margaret Horder , 1968 single work review
— Appears in: Reading Time : New Books for Boys and Girls , March no. 29 1968; (p. 15-16)

— Review of Sharpur the Carpet Snake Lydia Pender , 1967 single work picture book ; Puffing Billy : A Story for Children Esta De Fossard , 1967 single work picture book ; Moggie and Her Circus Pony Katharine Susannah Prichard , 1967 single work picture book
Three Australian Picture Books Margaret Horder , 1968 single work review
— Appears in: Reading Time : New Books for Boys and Girls , March no. 29 1968; (p. 15-16)

— Review of Sharpur the Carpet Snake Lydia Pender , 1967 single work picture book ; Puffing Billy : A Story for Children Esta De Fossard , 1967 single work picture book ; Moggie and Her Circus Pony Katharine Susannah Prichard , 1967 single work picture book
Untitled Howard George , 1987 single work review
— Appears in: Reading Time : The Journal of the Children's Book Council of Australia , vol. 31 no. 3 1987; (p. 53)

— Review of Sharpur the Carpet Snake Lydia Pender , 1967 single work picture book
Untitled Amanda Swaney , 1983 single work review
— Appears in: Reading Time : The Journal of the Children's Book Council of Australia , January no. 86 1983; (p. 30-31)

— Review of Sharpur the Carpet Snake Lydia Pender , 1967 single work picture book
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