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Issue Details: First known date: 2006... 2006 Ray's Olympics
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'The 1956 Melbourne Olympic Games are about to begin and everybody wants to watch them. Mick Leary has a new television, tickets to the Games and a cousin competing in the water polo team. Ray, who is in the same class as Mick, has to make do with sitting on the pavement watching a television in a shop window. It doesn't seem fair!

When the other children follow the boasting Leary boys around the playground, Ray retaliates by telling a lie. He announces that he is also going to the Games with his cousin, who is filming the Olympics from the new ABC broadcast van.

Mick doesn't believe Ray's story and demands proof in the form of a photo. Ray realises that he needs an excellent plan or he will be in all sorts of trouble with Mick and his rough brothers. And so begins Ray's own Olympic challenge. In trying to deal with the situation he has created, Ray gets some help from his brother, advice from his grandfather and support from his friend Skeeta.

Ray manages to get into the Games, find the ABC van and meet a new "cousin" who is happy to be photographed with Ray on the ABC van. It may have been a lie, but Ray gets the proof he needs.' (National Museum)

Notes

  • The National Museum of Australia website offers online resources associated with this title.
  • 'Ray's Olympics features an original ABC outside television broadcast van, part of the National Museum's collection.'

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Books Kids Fran Metcalf , 2006 single work review
— Appears in: The Courier-Mail , 17 - 18 June 2006; (p. 32)

— Review of Ray's Olympics Libby Gleeson , 2006 single work children's fiction
Books Kids Fran Metcalf , 2006 single work review
— Appears in: The Courier-Mail , 17 - 18 June 2006; (p. 32)

— Review of Ray's Olympics Libby Gleeson , 2006 single work children's fiction
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