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y separately published work icon Goblin on the Reef single work   children's fiction   children's   humour  
Is part of Goblin Victor Kelleher , 2002 series - author children's fiction
Issue Details: First known date: 2003... 2003 Goblin on the Reef
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"Gibblewort the Irish goblin is as nasty as ever. When his goblin friends get tired of his wicked ways, they teach him a lesson by packing him off to a damp part of Australia. The place he ends up in couldn't be damper, the Great Barrier Reef." (Source: Trove)

Affiliation Notes

  • This work is affiliated with the AustLit subset Asian-Australian Children's Literature and Publishing because it has been translated into Japanese.

Publication Details of Earliest 2 Known Versions of 2

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    • Milsons Point, North Sydney - Lane Cove area, Sydney Northern Suburbs, Sydney, New South Wales,: Random House , 2003 .
      Extent: 71p.
      Description: illus.
      ISBN: 1740518551
    • North Sydney, North Sydney - Lane Cove area, Sydney Northern Suburbs, Sydney, New South Wales,: Random House Australia , 2010 .
      image of person or book cover 3090862304262633575.jpg
      Cover image courtesy of publisher.
      Extent: 73p.
      Edition info: 2nd Ed.
      Description: illus.
      ISBN: 9781864719505
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Alternative title: 海なんて大きらい
Transliterated title: Umi nante daikirai
Language: Japanese
    • Tokyo, Honshu,
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      Japan,
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      East Asia, South and East Asia, Asia,
      :
      Shōgakukan ,
      2010 .
      image of person or book cover 2235464898736489281.png
      This image has been sourced from online.
      Extent: 94p.
      Description: illus.
      ISBN: 409290505X, 9784092905054
      Series: Itazura goburin 2010 series - publisher children's fiction Number in series: 2

Works about this Work

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[Untitled] Elizabeth Douglas , 2003 single work review
— Appears in: Reading Time : The Journal of the Children's Book Council of Australia , August vol. 47 no. 3 2003; (p. 35)

— Review of Goblin on the Reef Victor Kelleher , 2003 single work children's fiction
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[Untitled] Elizabeth Douglas , 2003 single work review
— Appears in: Reading Time : The Journal of the Children's Book Council of Australia , August vol. 47 no. 3 2003; (p. 35)

— Review of Goblin on the Reef Victor Kelleher , 2003 single work children's fiction
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