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1987
Birk, the Berserker
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Birk is a failure at being a Viking because he doesn't like violence. He sneaks off and falls asleep when he is meant to be raiding a village and is captured. Birk comes to love the village and, desperate to save it from future raids, becomes very fierce - or does he?
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Other Formats
- Also sound recording.
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Untitled
1988
single work
review
— Appears in: Magpies : Talking About Books for Children , March vol. 3 no. 1 1988; (p. 28)
— Review of Birk, the Berserker 1987 single work children's fiction -
Untitled
1988
single work
review
— Appears in: Reading Time : The Journal of the Children's Book Council of Australia , vol. 32 no. 2 1988; (p. 37)
— Review of Birk, the Berserker 1987 single work children's fiction -
Nude Boy in Cover-Up
1988
single work
review
— Appears in: The Weekend Australian , 2-3 April 1988;
— Review of Where the Forest Meets the Sea 1987 single work picture book ; So Much to Tell You 1987 single work novel ; Pheasant and Kingfisher 1987 single work picture book ; The Long Red Scarf 1987 single work picture book ; The Landing : A Night of Birds 1987 single work children's fiction ; Deezle Boy 1987 single work novel ; My Place : The Story of Australia from Now to Then 1987 single work picture book ; Digging to China 1988 single work picture book ; Obernewtyn 1987 single work novel ; A Paddock of Poems 1987 selected work poetry ; Looking Out For Sampson 1987 single work children's fiction ; The Makers 1987 single work novel ; Birk, the Berserker 1987 single work children's fiction ; Tucking Mummy In 1987 single work picture book -
Children's Book Council of Australia Book of the Year Awards: 1988 Judges' Report
1988
single work
criticism
— Appears in: Reading Time : The Journal of the Children's Book Council of Australia , vol. 32 no. 3 1988; (p. 5-12)
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Untitled
1988
single work
review
— Appears in: Magpies : Talking About Books for Children , March vol. 3 no. 1 1988; (p. 28)
— Review of Birk, the Berserker 1987 single work children's fiction -
Nude Boy in Cover-Up
1988
single work
review
— Appears in: The Weekend Australian , 2-3 April 1988;
— Review of Where the Forest Meets the Sea 1987 single work picture book ; So Much to Tell You 1987 single work novel ; Pheasant and Kingfisher 1987 single work picture book ; The Long Red Scarf 1987 single work picture book ; The Landing : A Night of Birds 1987 single work children's fiction ; Deezle Boy 1987 single work novel ; My Place : The Story of Australia from Now to Then 1987 single work picture book ; Digging to China 1988 single work picture book ; Obernewtyn 1987 single work novel ; A Paddock of Poems 1987 selected work poetry ; Looking Out For Sampson 1987 single work children's fiction ; The Makers 1987 single work novel ; Birk, the Berserker 1987 single work children's fiction ; Tucking Mummy In 1987 single work picture book -
Untitled
1988
single work
review
— Appears in: Reading Time : The Journal of the Children's Book Council of Australia , vol. 32 no. 2 1988; (p. 37)
— Review of Birk, the Berserker 1987 single work children's fiction -
Children's Book Council of Australia Book of the Year Awards: 1988 Judges' Report
1988
single work
criticism
— Appears in: Reading Time : The Journal of the Children's Book Council of Australia , vol. 32 no. 3 1988; (p. 5-12)
Awards
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