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Issue Details: First known date: 2012... 2012 Ten Scared Fish
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Ten Scared Fish is an animal counting book with a difference. Following the river to the sea, the reader meets and counts the animals until finally ten little fish meet a big scary shark! Bold illustrations and a delightfully playful text help readers familiarise themselves with prepositions as well as animals and numbers (Publisher website).

Publication Details of Only Known VersionEarliest 2 Known Versions of

Language: English , Aboriginal Yanyuwa AIATSIS ref. (N153) (NT SE53-04)
    • Crows Nest, North Sydney - Lane Cove area, Sydney Northern Suburbs, Sydney, New South Wales,: Allen and Unwin , 2012 .
      person or book cover
      Courtesy of Allen and Unwin
      Extent: 24p.
      Description: col. illus.
      Reprinted: Apr 2024
      Note/s:
      • The book contains a translation of the text into the Yanyuwa language of Arnhem Land.
      • 'Yanyuwa translation of text, John Bradley' (Colophon).
      ISBN: 9781742379128 (pbk.)

Works about this Work

Demon Monsters or Misunderstood Casualties? Writing about Sharks in Australia Donna Lee Brien , 2021 single work criticism
— Appears in: M/C Journal , vol. 24 no. 5 2021;

'Over the past century, many books for general readers have styled sharks as “monsters of the deep” (Steele). In recent decades, however, at least some writers have also turned to representing how sharks are seriously threatened by human activities. At a time when media coverage of shark sightings seems ever increasing in Australia, scholarship has begun to consider people’s attitudes to sharks and how these are formed, investigating the representation of sharks (Peschak; Ostrovski et al.) in films (Le Busque and Litchfield; Neff; Schwanebeck), newspaper reports (Muter et al.), and social media (Le Busque et al., “An Analysis”). My own research into representations of surfing and sharks in Australian writing (Brien) has, however, revealed that, although reporting of shark sightings and human-shark interactions are prominent in the news, and sharks function as vivid and commanding images and metaphors in art and writing (Ellis; Westbrook et al.), little scholarship has investigated their representation in Australian books published for a general readership.' (Introduction)

[Review] Ten Scared Fish Moira Robinson , 2012 single work review
— Appears in: Magpies : Talking about Books for Children , May vol. 27 no. 2 2012; (p. 26)

— Review of Ten Scared Fish Ros Moriarty , 2012 single work picture book ; Kangaroos Hop Ros Moriarty , 2012 single work picture book
Review of Kangaroos Hop and Ten Scared Fish Penny Morrison , 2012 single work review
— Appears in: Reading Time : The Journal of the Children's Book Council of Australia , May vol. 56 no. 2 2012; (p. 25)

— Review of Kangaroos Hop Ros Moriarty , 2012 single work picture book ; Ten Scared Fish Ros Moriarty , 2012 single work picture book
[Review] Ten Scared Fish Moira Robinson , 2012 single work review
— Appears in: Magpies : Talking about Books for Children , May vol. 27 no. 2 2012; (p. 26)

— Review of Ten Scared Fish Ros Moriarty , 2012 single work picture book ; Kangaroos Hop Ros Moriarty , 2012 single work picture book
Review of Kangaroos Hop and Ten Scared Fish Penny Morrison , 2012 single work review
— Appears in: Reading Time : The Journal of the Children's Book Council of Australia , May vol. 56 no. 2 2012; (p. 25)

— Review of Kangaroos Hop Ros Moriarty , 2012 single work picture book ; Ten Scared Fish Ros Moriarty , 2012 single work picture book
Demon Monsters or Misunderstood Casualties? Writing about Sharks in Australia Donna Lee Brien , 2021 single work criticism
— Appears in: M/C Journal , vol. 24 no. 5 2021;

'Over the past century, many books for general readers have styled sharks as “monsters of the deep” (Steele). In recent decades, however, at least some writers have also turned to representing how sharks are seriously threatened by human activities. At a time when media coverage of shark sightings seems ever increasing in Australia, scholarship has begun to consider people’s attitudes to sharks and how these are formed, investigating the representation of sharks (Peschak; Ostrovski et al.) in films (Le Busque and Litchfield; Neff; Schwanebeck), newspaper reports (Muter et al.), and social media (Le Busque et al., “An Analysis”). My own research into representations of surfing and sharks in Australian writing (Brien) has, however, revealed that, although reporting of shark sightings and human-shark interactions are prominent in the news, and sharks function as vivid and commanding images and metaphors in art and writing (Ellis; Westbrook et al.), little scholarship has investigated their representation in Australian books published for a general readership.' (Introduction)

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