Images of Australia : a history of Australian children's literature 1941-1970 / Maurice Saxby

Bib ID:
1594639
Format:
Book
Author:
Saxby, H. M. (Henry Maurice), 1924-2014
Online Version:
Description:
  • Sydney : Scholastic Australia, 2002
  • 848 p. ; 25 cm.
ISBN:
  • 1865042773
  • 1865044563
Summary:

Images of Australia: a history of Australian children's literature 1941-1970.

Full contents:
  • Machine derived contents note: Introduction 1
  • I The Historical, Social and Educational Context 7
  • Eleanor Spence 9
  • Colin Thiele 1 1
  • Joan Phipson 12 12
  • Ivan Southall 12
  • David Martin 13
  • An Australian literature 17
  • The educational context 22
  • The cultural context 26
  • Children's libraries 26
  • School libraries and services 29
  • The Children's Book Council of Australia 30
  • Publishing and bookselling 32
  • Specialist collections 34
  • Educational publishing 35
  • Shifting emphases 40
  • 2 Advance Australia Fair 58
  • European discovery and early exploration 58
  • First Fleet and settlement at Sydney Cove 64
  • Doris Chadwick 66
  • Early Sydney 70
  • Eve Pownall 72
  • Nance Donkin 73
  • Colonial Australia 77
  • Judith Wright 81
  • Eleanor Spence 85
  • Mavis Thorpe Clark 90
  • 3 Young and Free: Immigrants, Settlers
  • and New Australians 99
  • The migrant family 1 102
  • Nan Chauncy 105
  • Happy immigrants 108
  • Dale Collins 1 108
  • Lydia S Eliott 113
  • Emigrant adventures 114
  • William Hatfield 114
  • G W Barrington 115
  • Robin Baker and Robert Bateman 117
  • Newcomers and assisted migrants: tthe New Australians 119
  • Allan Aldous 120
  • Denys Burrows 125
  • At the diggings: the search for gold and mineral wealth 129
  • The Eureka Stockade 129
  • The Diggings 131
  • Frank Gerald Kellaway :133
  • Margaret Paice 135
  • Other than gold 136
  • Mavis Thorpe Clark 137
  • A wider perspective 139
  • George Finkel 139
  • 4 The Face of Australia: Mapping the Landscape 144
  • Landscapes: the wilderness 146
  • The desert 149
  • Mary Elwyn Patchett 1 49
  • Reginald Ottley 150
  • Joan Woodbery 155
  • Olaf Ruhen 156
  • The Bush: rural and community life 1 57
  • The pastoral landcape 157
  • Dale Collins 158
  • Nan Chauncy 160
  • Joan Phipson 166
  • Patricia Wrightson 169
  • Overseas Publishing 170
  • Life on the rivers and the river trade 171
  • Ray Harris 173
  • Elizabeth Wilton 176
  • Max Fatchen 177
  • Colin Thiele 1 7 9
  • Regions and communities: the Barossa Valley 180
  • The New South Wales central coast 182
  • Eleanor Spence 182
  • Timber country and remote corers 184
  • Margaret Paice 184
  • The Blue Mountains 186
  • The Snowy country 187
  • Elyne M itchell 18 8
  • Seascapes: the sea, the coast and the seaside 189
  • The Sea 1 189
  • Colin Thiele 19 0
  • The coast and the seaside 193
  • Joan Woodbery 193
  • Cityscapes 1 196
  • Miles Franklin 1 9 7
  • Landscape as event and as character 199
  • Len H Evers 2 0 0
  • Patricia Wrightson 203
  • Hesba Fay Brinsmead 209
  • Mapping Australia 217
  • 5 A Land of Adventure 224
  • The Superhero 3 0
  • Biggles 230
  • Simon Black 232
  • Colossal Corcoran 234
  • Dirk Rogers 235
  • Peter Kent 2 3 7
  • Peter Keene 2 3 9
  • Captain Mettle 239
  • Jeremy Danby 240
  • The heroic tradition 241
  • Allan Aldous 241
  • The Royal Flying Doctor Service 248
  • James M Downie 249
  • Elizabeth Beresford 250
  • Michael Noonan 251
  • Adventure in the outback ' 253
  • The Kimberleys 254
  • Richard Henry Graves 256
  • Phyllis Mary Power 257
  • Joan Woodbery 260
  • Mary Elwyn Patchett 261
  • Adventure at sea 269
  • R S Porteous 269
  • Alan Villiers 272
  • James Vance Marshall 272
  • John Gunn 273
  • Islands; reefs; treasure and mystery 274
  • Charles Leslie Barrett 276
  • Pearls 277
  • Sunken/buried treasure 277
  • Harold Arthur Lindsay 278
  • Melva Lear 279
  • Mervyn A Cooke 2 0 280
  • Paul Buddee 280
  • Leslie Rees 2 282
  • Variations on the theme 282
  • War, the cold war, politics 284
  • Charles S Gould 285
  • Claire Meillon 285
  • Coutts Brisbane 286
  • Jim Blair 288
  • George Finkel 289
  • N E Buette 290
  • Nancy Parker 290
  • Uranium 291
  • Woomera 2 92
  • Seducing the reader with story 294
  • Ruth Park 295
  • Survival and a new concept of the heroic:
  • 'real adventure belongs to us' 299
  • Ivan Southall 299
  • Bushfire 316
  • Flood 318
  • Survival 318
  • Lilith Norman 319
  • 6 Aboriginal Life and Lore 327
  • Government policies 332
  • The image of the Aboriginal in children's literature 334
  • M yalls and savages 336
  • The vanguished savage 337
  • The courteous savage 339
  • The respected savage and the skilful tracker 340
  • A n th ro p o lo g y 3 4 3
  • Norman Barnett Tindale and Haro,ld Arthur Lindsay 345
  • Paternalism 347
  • Guide, protector, friend and saviour 348
  • Mavis Thorpe Clark 350
  • Judith Wright 352
  • Joan Woodbery 353
  • James Vance Marshall 355
  • Cross cultures and race relations 359
  • Frederick John McLeod 359
  • Rex Ingamells 3 6 0
  • M J Unw in 362
  • Stella Sammon 364
  • Patricia Wrightson 365
  • Nan Chauncy 3 6 9
  • Of two worlds 3 2 372
  • Hesba Fay Brinsm ead 372
  • Audrey Oldfield 37 5
  • Island people 378
  • Kylie Tennant 3 7 9
  • Elisabeth Maclntyre 381
  • Picture books and the curious blackman 382
  • Brownie Downing 386
  • Mary and Elizabeth Durack 387
  • Photographic art 389
  • Legends and stories 391
  • K Langloh Parker 395
  • Framing the stories 399
  • Folktale and fantasy 401
  • Stories from the source 402
  • Retellings of collected stories 406
  • 7 Families, Friends and Neighbours 415
  • Childness 418
  • A feminine bias 420
  • New talents; new energy 421
  • Idealised/ romanticised families 422
  • Echoes of war 424
  • Charles S Gould 424
  • Anne Bracken 424
  • Dora Joan Potter 426
  • Dora Birtles 427
  • Keane Wilson 427
  • Ruth Marjorie Hawker 428
  • Personal development and religion 427
  • Guides to healthy living 429
  • Bible stories 431
  • Fiction 432
  • Deborah Elizabeth Bennett 432
  • Marjorie Buckingham 433
  • Resourceful females 435
  • Dora Birtles 436
  • Margaret Traill Bartleet 436
  • Joyce Nicholson 437
  • Nance Clare Donkin 438
  • Irene Cheyne 441
  • Veronica Kathleen Basser 442
  • Images of the family 442
  • Helen Fowler 444
  • Family structures and roles 445
  • Father-son relationships and family 1euding 448
  • Richard Parker 448
  • The Larrikin 449
  • Fatty Finn and Ginger Meggs 451
  • The larrikin in action 453
  • The cheerful larrikin 454
  • Smiley 455
  • Ira (Iris) Nesdale 459
  • Joan Woodbery 460
  • Louts and delinquents 461
  • The Establishment writes 461
  • Margaret Paice 464
  • Nan Chauncy 4 6 8
  • Joan P hipson 4 7 8
  • Patricia Wrightson 491
  • Eleanor Spence 498
  • Mavis Thorpe Clark 502
  • Hesba Fay Brinsmead 511
  • Margaret Balderson 521
  • A composite picture 525
  • Books for Young Adults 528
  • Females in the novel for young adults 531
  • Nourma Handford 531
  • Males in the novel for young adults 536
  • John K iddell 5 3 8
  • John Mill Couper 540
  • 8 Fantasy in Australia 553
  • An Australian fairyland? 554
  • Searching for Australian fairies 5 556
  • Moralising fairies 557
  • Displaced fairies 558
  • Peg Maltby 5 6 1
  • An Australian landscape: bush fantasies 564
  • Light-hearted fantasy for young readers 570
  • Escapist Fantasy 571
  • Humour and satire 578
  • Sydney Alexander Wakefield 580
  • Randolph Stow 582
  • Secondary worlds 5 585
  • Mariorie Collard O'Dea 586
  • Alan Marshall 588
  • Nan Chauncy 591
  • Science fiction 594
  • 9 Animal Life and Nature 603
  • The wonderland of nature: lessons in natural science 608
  • First books and picture stories for early childhood 614
  • Timothy Kay 615
  • Elisabeth Maclntyre 61 6
  • Slugs, worms and caterpillars 617
  • Animal young and the life cycle 619
  • Leslie Rees and Walter Cunningham 621
  • More animal young 626
  • Supplementary readers and cirriculum support 627
  • Kangaroos 630
  • Skippy 631
  • More talking animals and insects 635
  • David Hunter Gilmore 636
  • Ruth Park 6 3 8
  • Judith Wright 6 4 0
  • Realistic novels of bird and animal Life 641
  • Henry George Lamond 642
  • Charles Kenneth Thompson 645
  • Wild dogs and brumbies 648
  • Mary Elwyn Patchett 6 4 8
  • Elyne Mitchell 654
  • Horse stories 6 6 0
  • The Thylacine 663
  • Pets and domestic animals 664
  • 10 Early and Middle Childhood Literature 73
  • First books 679
  • Nursery rhymes, alphabet and counting books 679
  • Developing concepts and playing with ideas 682
  • Kathleen Mellor 68 2
  • Jill Meillon 684
  • Mass marketing 685
  • Anne Bracken 6 8 7
  • Connie Christie 688
  • John Mystery 6 8 9
  • Illustrated stories and the development
  • of the picture book 692
  • Photographic picture books 695
  • Mechanised heroes 700
  • The evolving picture book 702
  • Ted Greenwood 714
  • Desmond Digby 1 5
  • Beginning readers 716
  • Jean Chapman 7 1 7
  • Irene Cheyne 718
  • Barbara Woods 72 2
  • Middle childhood and junior novels 724
  • Ella McFadyen 7 2 6
  • Thomas Stuart Gurr 7 728
  • Mavis Thorpe Clark 730
  • Betty Roland 734
  • 11 Songs, Plays and Poetry 741
  • Songs 742
  • Plays 7 4 7
  • Poetry 7 5 1
  • A boriginality in verse 752
  • Domestic verse 754
  • Nature and wild life 763
  • Humour and whimsy 767
  • Dame Mary Gilmore 771
  • Anthologies 773
  • Verse by young Australians 776
  • Conclusion 782
  • Images of the landscape 785
  • Images of white discovery, settlement and early Australia 787
  • Images of changing social conditions and
  • attitudinal m odification 788
  • Images of the family and a structured society 788
  • The developing nature of narrative 789
  • Images of popular culture 791
  • Title Index 795
  • General Index 5 82
  • Publishers 848.
Notes:
  • A complete rewrite of Saxby's History of Australian children's literature, 1941-1970.
  • Includes bibliographical references and index.
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