y separately published work icon Kaboodle series - publisher   picture book   children's  
Issue Details: First known date: 1987... 1987 Kaboodle
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  • Picture books adapted from the Kaboodle televison series

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y separately published work icon Lock Up Your Toys Penny Robenstone , Penny Robenstone (illustrator), Crows Nest : Australian Broadcasting Corporation Australian Children's Television Foundation , 1987 Z991728 1987 single work picture book children's Crows Nest : Australian Broadcasting Corporation Australian Children's Television Foundation , 1987
y separately published work icon Molly Makes Music Penny Robenstone , Penny Robenstone (illustrator), Crows Nest : Australian Children's Television Foundation Thomas Nelson Australia , 1987 Z991738 1987 single work picture book children's

Molly comes home to find that her parents have separated. What follows is the story of the way in which she copes, and finally comes to terms with their separation. (Source: Libraries Australia.)

 Crows Nest : Australian Children's Television Foundation Thomas Nelson Australia , 1987
y separately published work icon The Secret Life of Trees Jeff Peck , Jenny Rendall (illustrator), Crows Nest : Australian Broadcasting Corporation Australian Children's Television Foundation , 1987 Z1365935 1987 single work picture book children's Crows Nest : Australian Broadcasting Corporation Australian Children's Television Foundation , 1987
y separately published work icon The Wheelie Wonder Hazel Edwards , Ross Gathercole (illustrator), New South Wales : Australian Broadcasting Corporation Australian Children's Television Foundation , 1987 Z846583 1987 single work picture book children's New South Wales : Australian Broadcasting Corporation Australian Children's Television Foundation , 1987
y separately published work icon Double Take and Other Stories Jeff Peck , Patricia Webb , Anne Hoey (illustrator), Sydney : Australian Broadcasting Corporation Australian Children's Television Foundation , 1988 Z1031401 1988 single work picture book children's Sydney : Australian Broadcasting Corporation Australian Children's Television Foundation , 1988
y separately published work icon Wizards of Solmar and Other Stories Jeff Peck , Patricia Webb , Crows Nest : Australian Broadcasting Corporation , 1988 Z1365940 1988 selected work children's fiction short story children's Crows Nest : Australian Broadcasting Corporation , 1988
y separately published work icon Grandfather's Dream Machine Bronwen Scarffe , Paul Williams (illustrator), Sydney : Australian Children's Television Foundation Hodder and Stoughton Australia , 1989 Z832510 1989 single work picture book children's Sydney : Australian Children's Television Foundation Hodder and Stoughton Australia , 1989
y separately published work icon The Great Detective and the Case of Captain Blunderbuss's Secret Susan Green , Stuart Billington (illustrator), Sydney : Hodder and Stoughton Australia Australian Children's Television Foundation , 1989 Z832513 1989 single work picture book adventure mystery children's

'Alexander Holmes possesses an extraordinary flair for observation and detection. With his dog, Watson, he sets out to unravel the mystery of the strange happenings at the house of Aunt Helen.' (Publication summary)

 Sydney : Hodder and Stoughton Australia Australian Children's Television Foundation , 1989
y separately published work icon Echidna Crossing Maggie Geddes , Neil Robinson , Neil Robinson (illustrator), Maggie Geddes (illustrator), Sydney : Hodder and Stoughton Australia , 1989 Z832801 1989 single work picture book children's Little Echidna finds herself stranded on the wrong side of the road. She and her new friend Wombat, together with help from other familiar Australian bush animals, get into one hilarious scrape after the other as they struggle to return Echidna to her home. Kookaburra wants Echidna to fly across the busy road, platypus wants her to swim across the river, and possum wants her to swing from branch to branch to get to the other side. Even if little Echidna does get back home, will it be as wonderful as she remembers it? (Australian Children's Television Foundation) Sydney : Hodder and Stoughton Australia , 1989
y separately published work icon Hedge Island Virginia Ferguson , Peter Martin Durkin , Peter Viska (illustrator), Con Aslanis (illustrator), Sydney : Australian Children's Television Foundation Hodder and Stoughton Australia , 1989 Z846784 1989 single work picture book children's Sydney : Australian Children's Television Foundation Hodder and Stoughton Australia , 1989

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First known date: 1987
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form y separately published work icon Kaboodle Penny Robenstone , Jeff Peck , Hazel Edwards , Pat Edwards , John Taylor , Alan Love , Murray Oliver , Steve French , Morris Gleitzman , Peter Viska , Paul Cox , Sue Smith , Gary Davis , Jan Sardi , Peita Letchford , Julia Gardiner , Shirley Barrett , Cate Cahill , Mark Osborn , Jennifer Mellet , Maggie Geddes , Neil Robinson , Jill Morris , John Skibinski , Sue Rendall , Greg Millin , Richard Chataway , Michael Cusack , Ross Gathercole , Paul Williams , ABC Television (publisher), ( dir. Jan Sardi et. al. )agent 1987 Australia : Australian Children's Television Foundation ABC Television , Z1398900 1987 series - publisher film/TV children's fantasy science fiction humour adventure horror

An anthology series of children's stories, mixing live-action episodes with animation, clay animation, and puppetry. The stories, aimed specifically at the under 10s, are drawn from a variety of sources, including children's books, fairy tales, myths, and original ideas. Some of the episodes have involved, for example, Snow White as a punk bikie and the seven dwarves as a motorcycle gang; a pet stegosaurus; a boy with wheels instead of toes; and Trevor the glider-plane-catching cat.

According to Patricia Edgar,

Thirty separate self-contained dramas of differing lengths were to be packaged into half-hour episodes. The project was designed to showcase new, creative talent in the television industry. Competitions were run at the Australian Film and Television School and Swinburne Institute of Technology for the best concepts suitable for inclusion in the Kaboodle package, with prizes of $1000 awarded. The Foundation sought promising but inexperienced writers, would-be producers, directors and even accountants who wanted to earn their first credit to enable them to find a future in the industry.

Source: Patricia Edgar, Bloodbath: A Memoir of Australian Television, Melbourne: Melbourne UP, 2006, pp.175-76.

Kaboodle was produced in two series, the first of which included some live-action segements, but the second of which was entirely animated.

For a full list of episodes, see Film Details.

Episode listing for Kaboodle series two courtesy of the Australian Children's Television Foundation.
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