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Issue Details: First known date: 1986... 1986 Blue Days
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A sixteen-year-old wonders whether it's worth growing up at all as she tries to cope with loss, disillusionment, and confusion. (Publisher's blurb)

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  • Dedication: To everyone who ever had to grow up.

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Alternative title: Das Tagebuch der Marie Lucas
Language: German
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y separately published work icon Elements of Carnival and the Carnivalesque in Contemporary Australian Children's Literature B. F. Haynes , Sydney : 2009 27495428 2009 single work thesis

'This thesis discusses the influence of elements of Bakhtinian camivalesque in selected contemporary Australian children’s literature. Many of the Bakhtinian ideas are centred on the work of Franqois Rabelais, particularly his five books collectively entitled Gargantua and Pantagruel. Aspects of the complex field of Bakhtinian camivalesque that have been considered include: attitudes to authority, the grotesque body and its working, the importance of feasting and the associated concepts of bodily functioning, customs in relation to food, and ritual and specific language such as the use of curses and oaths. The role of humour and the manifest forms this takes within carnival are intrinsic and are discussed at some length. These central tenets are explored in two ways: first, in relation to their connection and use within the narrative structures of a selection of books short listed (and thus critically acclaimed) by the Australian Children’s Book Council from the early 1980s to the early 2000s, and second, by means of contrast, to the commercially popular but generally less critically acclaimed works of other Australian writers such as Paul Jennings and Andy Griffiths. The thesis concludes by considering the ways in which camivalesque freedom is encouraged through and by new media.'

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Binding Friendships and the Discovery of Death Robyn Marshall , 1988 single work review
— Appears in: The Courier-Mail , 20 August 1988; (p. 6)
— Review of Blue Days Donna Sharp , 1986 single work novel
Untitled Dinny Culican-Ward , 1987 single work review
— Appears in: LiNQ , vol. 15 no. 1 1987; (p. 104-106)
— Review of The Other Side of the Family Maureen Pople , 1986 single work novel ; Blue Days Donna Sharp , 1986 single work novel ; The Sky Between the Trees James Preston , 1986 single work novel
Untitled Faye Davis , 1987 single work review
— Appears in: Fremantle Arts Review , January vol. 2 no. 1 1987; (p. 14)
— Review of Blue Days Donna Sharp , 1986 single work novel ; The Other Side of the Family Maureen Pople , 1986 single work novel ; The Sky Between the Trees James Preston , 1986 single work novel
Untitled Carmel Ballinger , 1987 single work review
— Appears in: Magpies : Talking About Books for Children , May vol. 2 no. 2 1987; (p. 26)
— Review of The Other Side of the Family Maureen Pople , 1986 single work novel ; Blue Days Donna Sharp , 1986 single work novel ; The Sky Between the Trees James Preston , 1986 single work novel
Untitled Carmel Ballinger , 1987 single work review
— Appears in: Magpies : Talking About Books for Children , May vol. 2 no. 2 1987; (p. 26)
— Review of The Other Side of the Family Maureen Pople , 1986 single work novel ; Blue Days Donna Sharp , 1986 single work novel ; The Sky Between the Trees James Preston , 1986 single work novel
Untitled Faye Davis , 1987 single work review
— Appears in: Fremantle Arts Review , January vol. 2 no. 1 1987; (p. 14)
— Review of Blue Days Donna Sharp , 1986 single work novel ; The Other Side of the Family Maureen Pople , 1986 single work novel ; The Sky Between the Trees James Preston , 1986 single work novel
Untitled Dinny Culican-Ward , 1987 single work review
— Appears in: LiNQ , vol. 15 no. 1 1987; (p. 104-106)
— Review of The Other Side of the Family Maureen Pople , 1986 single work novel ; Blue Days Donna Sharp , 1986 single work novel ; The Sky Between the Trees James Preston , 1986 single work novel
Binding Friendships and the Discovery of Death Robyn Marshall , 1988 single work review
— Appears in: The Courier-Mail , 20 August 1988; (p. 6)
— Review of Blue Days Donna Sharp , 1986 single work novel
Australian Children's Book Awards : The 1987 shortlist Margaret Dunkle , 1987 single work review
— Appears in: Australian Book Review , June no. 91 1987; (p. 29-32)
— Review of Riverman Allan Baillie , 1986 single work novel ; Creatures in the Beard Margaret Wild , 1986 single work picture book ; Kojuro and the Bears Helen Smith (translator), 1987 single work picture book ; The Wild Bob Graham , 1986 single work picture book ; All About Anna and Harriet and Christopher and Me Libby Hathorn , 1986 single work children's fiction ; Melissa's Ghost Michael Dugan , 1986 single work children's fiction ; Blue Days Donna Sharp , 1986 single work novel ; Space Demons Gillian Rubinstein , 1986 single work novel ; Taronga Victor Kelleher , 1986 single work novel ; My Sister Sif Ruth Park , 1986 single work novel ; All We Know Simon French , 1986 single work children's fiction ; Animalia Graeme Base , 1986 single work picture book ; Farmer Schulz's Ducks Colin Thiele , 1986 single work picture book ; Pigs Might Fly Emily Rodda , 1986 single work children's fiction ; Sister Madge's Book of Nuns Doug MacLeod , 1986 selected work poetry ; Boss of the Pool Robin Klein , 1986 single work children's fiction ; Murgatroyd's Garden Judy Zavos , 1986 single work picture book ; The Nativity Ron Lander , 1986 single work picture book
The Children's Book Council Book of the Year Awards 1987 : The Short Lists Jo Goodman , 1987 single work column
— Appears in: Magpies : Talking About Books for Children , May vol. 2 no. 2 1987; (p. 12-13)
y separately published work icon Elements of Carnival and the Carnivalesque in Contemporary Australian Children's Literature B. F. Haynes , Sydney : 2009 27495428 2009 single work thesis

'This thesis discusses the influence of elements of Bakhtinian camivalesque in selected contemporary Australian children’s literature. Many of the Bakhtinian ideas are centred on the work of Franqois Rabelais, particularly his five books collectively entitled Gargantua and Pantagruel. Aspects of the complex field of Bakhtinian camivalesque that have been considered include: attitudes to authority, the grotesque body and its working, the importance of feasting and the associated concepts of bodily functioning, customs in relation to food, and ritual and specific language such as the use of curses and oaths. The role of humour and the manifest forms this takes within carnival are intrinsic and are discussed at some length. These central tenets are explored in two ways: first, in relation to their connection and use within the narrative structures of a selection of books short listed (and thus critically acclaimed) by the Australian Children’s Book Council from the early 1980s to the early 2000s, and second, by means of contrast, to the commercially popular but generally less critically acclaimed works of other Australian writers such as Paul Jennings and Andy Griffiths. The thesis concludes by considering the ways in which camivalesque freedom is encouraged through and by new media.'

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