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Issue Details: First known date: 1969... 1969 Uhu : (pronounced yoo-hoo)
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Tells the story of a family's efforts to raise a baby owl to maturity.

Notes

  • First edition published simultaneously in Australia and Great Britain.
  • Dedication: For FLK, his best friend.
  • 'Without supernatural assistance, our fellow creatures can tell us the most beautiful stories, and that means true stories, because the truth about nature is always far more beautiful even than what our great poets sing of it, and they are the only real magicians that exist.' / King Solomon's Ring / by Konrad L. Lorenz

Publication Details of Only Known VersionEarliest 2 Known Versions of

    • London,
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      England,
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      United Kingdom (UK),
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      Western Europe, Europe,      :       Sydney, New South Wales,: Rapp & Whiting ; Ure Smith ,       1969 .
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      Extent: 62p.
      Description: illus. (some col.)
      Reprinted: 1970 Several reprints
      ISBN: 0853911363
    • New York (City), New York (State),
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      United States of America (USA),
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      Americas,      :       Knopf ,       1970 .
      Extent: 54p.
      Edition info: 1st American Edition
      Description: illus. (part col.)
    • Sydney, New South Wales,: Lansdowne , 1980 .
      Extent: 62p.
      Description: illus. (some col.)
      ISBN: 070181344X
    • Melbourne, Victoria,: Nelson , 1985 .
      Extent: 62p.
      Description: illus. (some col.)
      Note/s:
      • Published as part of a set of texts for Young Australia reading scheme.
      ISBN: 0170067084
Alternative title: Oehoe
Language: Dutch
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  • Also braille, sound recording.
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Works about this Work

Another Point of View 1970 single work criticism
— Appears in: Reading Time : New Books for Boys and Girls , July no. 36 1970; (p. 19-22) Children comment on three novels from the Children's Book Council Book of the Year Award, 1970
Children's Book Council of Australia 1970 Judge's Report 1970 single work criticism
— Appears in: Reading Time : New Books for Boys and Girls , July no. 36 1970; (p. 11-13)
Untitled Geoffrey Atkinson , 1970 single work review
— Appears in: Reading Time : New Books for Boys and Girls , March no. 35 1970; (p. 45-46)
— Review of Uhu : (pronounced yoo-hoo) Annette Macarthur-Onslow , 1969 single work children's fiction
Untitled Geoffrey Atkinson , 1970 single work review
— Appears in: Reading Time : New Books for Boys and Girls , March no. 35 1970; (p. 45-46)
— Review of Uhu : (pronounced yoo-hoo) Annette Macarthur-Onslow , 1969 single work children's fiction
Children's Book Council of Australia 1970 Judge's Report 1970 single work criticism
— Appears in: Reading Time : New Books for Boys and Girls , July no. 36 1970; (p. 11-13)
Another Point of View 1970 single work criticism
— Appears in: Reading Time : New Books for Boys and Girls , July no. 36 1970; (p. 19-22) Children comment on three novels from the Children's Book Council Book of the Year Award, 1970
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