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Issue Details: First known date: 1996... 1996 Green Air
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Silus, the platypus frog, lives in the 'green' air of a small remnant rainforest in south-eastern Queensland, Australia. When heavy rain swells the creek where Silus lives, he is swept out of the forest and into the dangerous world of the 'yellow' air.

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Notes

  • Factual information presented in narrative form.
  • Described as an 'environmentally aware picture storybook', this work is illustrated with photographs of Lindsay Muir's unique three-dimensional clay sculptures.
  • Included in the 1998 White Raven's Catalogue compiled by the International Youth Library in Munich, Germany. Special mention; Easily understandable

Publication Details of Only Known VersionEarliest 2 Known Versions of

    • Maleny, Maleny area, Sunshine Coast Hinterland, South East Queensland, Queensland,: Greater Glider , 1996 .
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      Extent: 30p.
      Description: illus., col.
      Reprinted: 1997 , 2003
      ISBN: 094730424X, 0947304304 (pbk)
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  • Also sound recording.
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The Sky Is Falling : Children as Environmental Subjects in Contemporary Picture Books Clare Bradford , 2003 single work criticism
— Appears in: Children's Literature and the Fin de Siécle 2003; (p. 111-120)

"The metanarratives that circulate in Western culture around environmental topics rarely have happy endings; many, indeed, are apocalyptic in their depictions of ecological outcomes. [In this chapter, Bradford considers] what happens when these two categories of metanarrative meet in contemporary picture books, which thematize environmental topics."
The Sky Is Falling : Children as Environmental Subjects in Contemporary Picture Books Clare Bradford , 2003 single work criticism
— Appears in: Children's Literature and the Fin de Siécle 2003; (p. 111-120)

"The metanarratives that circulate in Western culture around environmental topics rarely have happy endings; many, indeed, are apocalyptic in their depictions of ecological outcomes. [In this chapter, Bradford considers] what happens when these two categories of metanarrative meet in contemporary picture books, which thematize environmental topics."
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