The Min-min / Mavis Thorpe Clark ; illustrated by Genevieve Melrose
- Bib ID:
- 135087
- Format:
- Book
- Author:
- Clark, Mavis Thorpe
- Description:
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- Melbourne, Vic. : Lansdowne Press, 1966
- 206 p. : ill. ; 22 cm.
- Series:
- Marcie Muir collection of Australian children's books.
- Summary:
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Sylvie and her young brother Reg leave their home in an outback railway town and set off across the endless desert carrying insufficient water and some bread and jam. This is the story of their journey.
- Notes:
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- Children's Book Council of Australia Book of the Year 1967.
- For children.
- Cited In:
- Muir, M. A bibliography of Australian children's books, 1584
- Subject:
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- Country life -- Australia -- Juvenile fiction
- Interpersonal conflict in adolescence -- Juvenile fiction
- Runaway children -- Australia -- Juvenile fiction
- Teenage girls -- Australia -- Juvenile fiction
- Stories and motifs - Min Min lights
- Literature and stories - Juvenile
- Literature and stories - Non indigenous - Fiction
- Nullarbor Plain (SE WA, Far West SA SH51, SH52, SI52)
- Other authors/contributors:
- Melrose, Genevieve
- Exhibited:
- National Library of Australia's MM 704 copy exhibited: “Story Time: Australian Children’s Literature”, National Library of Australia, 22 August 2019 – 16 February 2020.
- Related Records:
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This belongs to the Muir, Marcie. Marcie Muir collection of Australian children's books.
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- Material type:
- Literary Dramatic Musical
- Published status:
- Published
- Publication date:
- 1966
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