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Issue Details: First known date: 2010... 2010 The Midnight Zoo
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'Under cover of darkness, two brothers cross a war-ravaged countryside carrying a secret bundle. One night they stumble across a deserted town reduced to smouldering ruins. But at the end of a blackened street they find a small green miracle: a zoo filled with animals in need of hope.

'A moving and ageless fable about war, and freedom.' (From the publisher's website.)

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  • Ages 13+
  • This book won the 2011 Australian Publishers Association Best Designed Children’s Fiction Book sponsored by 1010 Printing International.
  • Included on the 2011 White Ravens list compiled by the International Youth Library in Munich, Germany.

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  • This work is affiliated with the AustLit subset Asian-Australian Children's Literature and Publishing because it has a Japanese translation

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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      Extent: 186p.
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      • Published May 2010
      ISBN: 9780670074051 (hbk.)
    • London,
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      England,
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      United Kingdom (UK),
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      Western Europe, Europe,      :       Walker Books [London] ,       2010 .
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      Extent: 204p.
      Note/s:
      • Published November 1st 2010
      ISBN: 9781406331493 140633149X
    • Somerville, Massachusetts,
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      United States of America (USA),
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      Americas,      :       Candlewick Press ,       2011 .
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      Extent: 217p.
      Note/s:
      • Published September 13, 2011
      ISBN: 9780763653392
    • Melbourne, Victoria,: Penguin Books , 2014 .
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      Extent: 208p.
      Note/s:
      • Published 27 August 2014
      ISBN: 9780143504887
    • Massachusetts,
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      United States of America (USA),
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      Americas,      :       Candlewick Press ,       2018 .
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      Extent: 224 p.p.
      Description: illus.
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      • Published August 2018.

      ISBN: 9780763664626
Alternative title: Lo zoo di mezzanotte
Language: Italian
    • Milan,
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      Italy,
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      Western Europe, Europe,      :       Cairo ,       2012 .
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      Extent: 220p.
      Note/s:
      • Published 1 January 2012
      ISBN: 8860524334, 9788860524331
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The Necessity of an Anthropomorphic Approach to Children’s Literature Chengcheng You , 2021 single work criticism
— Appears in: Children's Literature in Education , June vol. 52 no. 3 2021; (p. 183-199) 'The study focuses on the necessity of an anthropomorphic approach in deconstructing the symbolic understandings of animals in children’s literature, and considers how such an approach can be used to draw ethical attention to the unnatural history of animals in the Anthropocene. The paper analyses three children’s novels that depict animals without representing their subjectivity in characteristically human terms. These novels are Eva Hornung’s ferality tale Dog Boy (2009), Sonya Hartnett’s fable The Midnight Zoo (2011) and Kate Applegate’s animal autobiography The One and Only Ivan (2012). Informed by Jacques Derrida’s anti-anthropocentric views and the ethical discourse of creaturely vulnerability, this essay argues that the world’s present state of cascading environmental impoverishment demands an anthropomorphic approach that is not inherently anthropocentric, along with an emerging kind of creaturely consciousness.' (Publication abstract)
Digger Spirit Draws in Kids Fiona Purdon , 2012 single work column
— Appears in: The Courier-Mail , 21-22 April 2012; (p. 20-21) 'Authors are keeping the nation's military history alive, writes Fiona Purdon.'
CBCA Awards - Acceptance Speeches : Older Readers Sonya Hartnett , 2011 single work column
— Appears in: Reading Time : The Journal of The Children's Book Council of Australia , November vol. 55 no. 4 2011; (p. 6)
Untitled Caroline Tesauro , 2011 single work review
— Appears in: School Library Journal : For Children's, Young Adult and School Librarians , September vol. 57 no. 9 2011; (p. 156)
— Review of The Midnight Zoo Sonya Hartnett , 2010 single work children's fiction
Untitled 2011 single work review
— Appears in: Publishers Weekly , 8 August vol. 258 no. 32 2011; (p. 48)
— Review of The Midnight Zoo Sonya Hartnett , 2010 single work children's fiction
Naked Apes and Talking Animals Nicola Walker , 2010 single work review
— Appears in: The Age , 14 August 2010; (p. 25) The Sydney Morning Herald , 14-15 August 2010; (p. 37)
— Review of The Midnight Zoo Sonya Hartnett , 2010 single work children's fiction
[Review] Takeshita Demons Michelle Hamer , 2010 single work review
— Appears in: The Sunday Age , 22 August 2010; (p. 21)
— Review of The Midnight Zoo Sonya Hartnett , 2010 single work children's fiction ; Takeshita Demons Cristy Burne , 2010 single work children's fiction ; The Truth about Penguins Megan McKinlay , 2010 single work picture book
Bejewelled Fable Lost in the Realm of Realism Barry Oakley , 2010 single work review
— Appears in: The Weekend Australian , 28-29 August 2010; (p. 21)
— Review of The Midnight Zoo Sonya Hartnett , 2010 single work children's fiction
Winds of War Ruth Starke , 2010 single work review
— Appears in: Australian Book Review , September no. 324 2010; (p. 71)
— Review of The Midnight Zoo Sonya Hartnett , 2010 single work children's fiction ; The Red Wind Isobelle Carmody , 2010 single work children's fiction
The Winds of War Margaret Bromley , 2010 single work review
— Appears in: The Canberra Times , 18 September 2010; (p. 30)
— Review of The Midnight Zoo Sonya Hartnett , 2010 single work children's fiction ; The Red Wind Isobelle Carmody , 2010 single work children's fiction ; Let Me Whisper You My Story Moya Simons , 2010 single work children's fiction
Strange Beasts : Sonya Hartnett's Midnight Zoo Geordie Williamson , 2010 single work criticism
— Appears in: The Monthly , August no. 59 2010; (p. 62-65)
Escaping the Cycle of Dull Amanda Horswill , 2010 single work column
— Appears in: The Courier-Mail , 28 - 29 August 2010; (p. 22)
Judged By More than Their Covers Katharine England , 2011 single work column
— Appears in: The Advertiser , 16 April 2011; (p. 50-51)
There's More to the Story Terry Denton , 2011 single work column
— Appears in: The Sydney Morning Herald , 20-21 August 2011; (p. 12-13)
Passion, Pedagogy and the Political : Looking Back, Looking Forward Lyn Wilkinson , 2011 single work criticism
— Appears in: English in Australia , vol. 46 no. 2 2011; (p. 27-35)
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