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'Kate Miller-Heidke has turned an award-winning picture book about native marsupials invaded by rabbits into an award-winning opera that captures the parallel themes of white settlement and black dispossession, write Chris Hook and Clare MorganWhen Brisbane pop singer Kate Miller-Heidke checked out the children’s book that theatre director John Sheedy wanted to turn into an opera, ...'
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The Rabbits
Shaun Tan
(illustrator),
Port Melbourne
:
Lothian
,
1998
Z139449
1998
single work
picture book
children's
(taught in 11 units)
"The rabbits came many grandparents ago.
They build houses, made roads, had children.
They cut down trees.
A whole continent of rabbits..." (back cover)
An allegorical story using rabbits, an introduced species, to represent the arrival of Europeans in Australia and the subsequent widespread environmental destruction.
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