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Issue Details: First known date: 2010... 2010 The Boy and the Toy
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'One day a man invented the best toy in the world. He gave the toy to his son. The boy thought the toy was marvellous. It could do anything!

'But as time passed, the boy started to wonder about the toy. Was it really the best toy in the world?' (From the publisher's website.)

Publication Details of Only Known VersionEarliest 2 Known Versions of

    • Camberwell, Camberwell - Kew area, Melbourne - Inner South, Melbourne, Victoria,: Viking , 2010 .
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      Cover image courtesy of Penguin Books Australia.
      Extent: 36p.
      Description: col. illus.
      Note/s:
      • Publication date: 3 May 2010.
      ISBN: 9780670073627 (hbk.)
    • Melbourne, Victoria,: Puffin , 2014 .
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      Cover image courtesy of publisher.
      Extent: 35p.
      Description: col. illus.
      ISBN: 9780143506041

Works about this Work

The Boy and the Toy by Sonya Hartnett Anastasia Gonis , 2013 single work review
— Appears in: Buzz Words , December 2013;

— Review of The Boy and the Toy Sonya Hartnett , 2010 single work picture book
There Be Dragons Thornton McCamish , 2012 single work column
— Appears in: The Sunday Age , 26 August 2012; (p. 15)
Untitled Graham Davey , 2010 single work review
— Appears in: Reading Time : The Journal of the Children's Book Council of Australia , May vol. 54 no. 2 2010; (p. 26)

— Review of The Boy and the Toy Sonya Hartnett , 2010 single work picture book
Untitled Christopher Thompson , 2010 single work review
— Appears in: Viewpoint : On Books for Young Adults , Spring vol. 18 no. 3 2010; (p. 20)

— Review of The Boy and the Toy Sonya Hartnett , 2010 single work picture book
Old Friends Stephanie Owen Reeder , 2010 single work review
— Appears in: Australian Book Review , July-August no. 323 2010; (p. 69-70)

— Review of Grug and the Circus Ted Prior , 2010 single work picture book ; Grug Learns to Read Ted Prior , 2009 single work picture book ; There's a Hippopotamus on Our Roof Eating Cake Hazel Edwards , 1980 single work picture book ; Hooray! There's a Hippopotamus on Our Roof Having a Birthday Party Hazel Edwards , 2010 single work picture book ; A Giraffe in the Bath Mem Fox , Olivia Rawson , 2010 single work picture book ; The Boy and the Toy Sonya Hartnett , 2010 single work picture book ; Flame Stands Waiting Corinne Fenton , 2010 single work picture book ; Little Dog Katrina Germein , 2010 single work picture book ; An ABC of Pirates Caroline Stills , 2010 single work picture book
Untitled Margaret Hamilton , 2010 single work review
— Appears in: Bookseller + Publisher Magazine , March vol. 89 no. 6 2010; (p. 20)

— Review of The Boy and the Toy Sonya Hartnett , 2010 single work picture book
Off the Shelf : Picture Book Dianne Dempsey , 2010 single work review
— Appears in: The Age , 8 May 2010; (p. 26)

— Review of The Boy and the Toy Sonya Hartnett , 2010 single work picture book
Untitled Katharine England , 2010 single work review
— Appears in: Advertiser , 15 May 2010; (p. 25)

— Review of The Boy and the Toy Sonya Hartnett , 2010 single work picture book
Missing : A Dog with a Big Heart Meg Sorensen , 2010 single work review
— Appears in: The Sydney Morning Herald , 29-30 May 2010; (p. 37)

— Review of The Boy and the Toy Sonya Hartnett , 2010 single work picture book
Under Age Frances Atkinson , 2010 single work review
— Appears in: The Sunday Age , 6 June 2010; (p. 21)

— Review of The Return of the Word Spy Ursula Dubosarsky , 2010 single work non-fiction ; The Boy and the Toy Sonya Hartnett , 2010 single work picture book
There Be Dragons Thornton McCamish , 2012 single work column
— Appears in: The Sunday Age , 26 August 2012; (p. 15)
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