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Issue Details:
First known date:
1946...
vol.
1
no.
5
November
1946
of
The Australasian Book News and Library Journal
est. 1946
The Australasian Book News and Library Journal
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Notes
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On cover: Children's Book Week Issue
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Also includes 'Teen-age Reading' by Marie Hurley of the U.S. Information Library and a list of award winning American books for children.
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Includes Bernard Smith's review 'The Art of William Dobell'.
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Includes circulation statistics for Australian books from the Annual Report of the Hawthorn Public Library, Melbourne for 1945.
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Also includes other lists of books about to be published.
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Includes Sydney librarian F. L. S. Bell's extensive report on a tour of North American children's libraries.
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Includes Books Published in Australia: List of Books Supplied to the National Library, Canberra, under the Provisions of the Copyright Act. 26 August - 25 September 1946 (pp. 225-228)
Contents
* Contents derived from the 1946 version. Please note that other versions/publications may contain different contents. See the Publication Details.
- Books Are Bridges, single work prose (p. 169)
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Australia Story,
single work
review
— Review of Susan Who Lives in Australia 1944 single work picture book ; (p. 171) -
'Katherine' in America,
single work
review
— Review of Susan Who Lives in Australia 1944 single work picture book ; (p. 171) - Her Books Delight Young and Old, single work biography (p. 173-174)
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No Nonsense in the Nursery,
single work
prose
Blunt suggests that fantasy is more suited to adults than children.
- Book Week in Sydney, single work column (p. 176)
- Children's Book Week, single work column (p. 177)
- Mosman Children's Library, single work column (p. 179-180)
- What Children Are Reading, single work column (p. 182)
- Books Are Cargoes, single work column (p. 190)
- Children Made a Puppet Show : Hawthorn Public Library, single work column (p. 201)
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Recent Australian Children's Books,
single work
review
— Review of The Antics of Algy 1946 single work children's fiction ; Cheno : A Tale of the Black Swan 1945 single work children's fiction ; Jancy Wins Through 1945 single work children's fiction ; Our Day at the Zoo 1946 single work picture book ; Popsy's Picnic : Introducing Jeffery Alexander Jones 1945 single work picture book ; (p. 203, 205) -
New Novels,
single work
review
— Review of My Career Goes Bung : Purporting to be the Autobiography of Sybylla Penelope Melvyn 1946 single work novel ; (p. 207) -
New Novels,
single work
review
— Review of The Overlanders : A Novel 1946 single work novel ; (p. 209, 211) -
Recent Books : Digest of the Month's Reading,
single work
review
— Review of Heed McGlarity 1945 single work novel ; Coast of Adventure : Untamed North Australia 1941 selected work prose ; (p. 217) -
War Books,
single work
review
— Review of The Sand and the Sky 1945 single work autobiography ; (p. 219)
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