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'"What is it, Gran?" Peter demanded, pulling urgently at her sleeve. "What's the matter?"
'Meg didn't answer. She was staring down at the book they had been reading together, a shocked expression on her face. For there on the page she had just turned was a picture of the thing itself. Not a photograph, naturally, that would have been impossible. This was merely an artists' impression. Still, there was no mistaking what she was looking at: the self same creature she had encountered all those years before, when she had been not much older than Peter.
'What a long time ago that was! Over forty years, and in all that time she hadn't mentioned what she had seen to anyone. She had thought about it often enough, though. And now, confronted by the creature once more, here in the pages of a book, she almost felt that the long years had never passed. Those ancient eyes, gazing up at her from the painting, seemed to plunge her back in time, back to the lonely country road which ran between school and her grandmother's farm. It was as if she were actually here, surrounded by the sounds and smells of the bush; as if she were a fourteen-year-old girl once more, hurrying through the dusk towards that first unsettling moment of contact . . .'
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Teaching Classic Australian Children's Fiction
Anthony Shaw
,
St Lucia
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AustLit: The Australian Literature Resource
,
2016-
15827758
2016
website
prose
This Exhibition is a collection of extensive teaching resources for classic Australian children's texts. The resources are aimed at upper primary school and lower high school teachers. The collection forms part of Anthony Shaw's Learning with Literature program.
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Story Obscured by Graphics
2001
single work
review
— Appears in: The Canberra Times , 31 March 2001; (p. 19)
— Review of Dreamwalker 2001 single work picture book ; Beyond the Dusk 2000 single work children's fiction -
[Review] Beyond the Dusk
2000
single work
review
— Appears in: Magpies : Talking About Books for Children , September vol. 15 no. 4 2000; (p. 33-34)
— Review of Beyond the Dusk 2000 single work children's fiction -
[Review] Beyond the Dusk
2000
single work
review
— Appears in: Reading Time : The Journal of the Children's Book Council of Australia , November vol. 44 no. 4 2000; (p. 26)
— Review of Beyond the Dusk 2000 single work children's fiction -
Traditional Tales and Bush Mythology
2000
single work
review
— Appears in: Viewpoint : On Books for Young Adults , Summer vol. 8 no. 4 2000; (p. 37-38)
— Review of Robber Girl 2000 single work picture book ; Beyond the Dusk 2000 single work children's fiction
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[Review] Beyond the Dusk
2000
single work
review
— Appears in: Reading Time : The Journal of the Children's Book Council of Australia , November vol. 44 no. 4 2000; (p. 26)
— Review of Beyond the Dusk 2000 single work children's fiction -
[Review] Beyond the Dusk
2000
single work
review
— Appears in: Magpies : Talking About Books for Children , September vol. 15 no. 4 2000; (p. 33-34)
— Review of Beyond the Dusk 2000 single work children's fiction -
Story Obscured by Graphics
2001
single work
review
— Appears in: The Canberra Times , 31 March 2001; (p. 19)
— Review of Dreamwalker 2001 single work picture book ; Beyond the Dusk 2000 single work children's fiction -
Traditional Tales and Bush Mythology
2000
single work
review
— Appears in: Viewpoint : On Books for Young Adults , Summer vol. 8 no. 4 2000; (p. 37-38)
— Review of Robber Girl 2000 single work picture book ; Beyond the Dusk 2000 single work children's fiction -
y
Teaching Classic Australian Children's Fiction
Anthony Shaw
,
St Lucia
:
AustLit: The Australian Literature Resource
,
2016-
15827758
2016
website
prose
This Exhibition is a collection of extensive teaching resources for classic Australian children's texts. The resources are aimed at upper primary school and lower high school teachers. The collection forms part of Anthony Shaw's Learning with Literature program.
- Bush,