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Selby Series
1985-
series - author
children's fiction
Issue Details:
First known date:
1988...
1988
Selby Speaks
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'Selby is still valiantly trying to keep his gift of the gab a secret. After all, if his owners, the Trifles, find out that their pet pooch can talk, they might ask him to do chores like answer the telephone or do the shopping. Worse still, they might hand him over to snoopy scientists and he'd spend the rest of his life answering stupid questions. Selby has vowed to keep his trap shut — even if it kills him! But only fast talking can save him when he's caught in a cage with Two-Tooth Tina, or is about to be dumped over a cliff, or is going to be sliced into Selby-salami by a gigantic saw blade ... Yikes!' (Source: author's website.)
Affiliation Notes
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This work is affiliated with the AustLit subset Asian-Australian Children's Literature and Publishing because it has a Japanese translation.
Publication Details of Only Known VersionEarliest 2 Known Versions of
Other Formats
- Also braille and sound recording.
Works about this Work
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The Nine Lives of Aoi Kashima
1995
single work
prose
— Appears in: Reading Time : The Journal of the Children's Book Council of Australia , May vol. 39 no. 2 1995; (p. 5-7) In this essay, Ball discusses some of the problems that translators encounter when they try to translate his works. He also describes the translation of his books into Japanese by 'Aoi Kashima', who is not actually a single translator, but rather a group of nine Japanese women who translate as a team, working under a pseudonym of their own construction; the name 'Aoi Kashima' is 'made up of letters from the names of the actual translators', Ball writes.
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[Review] Selby Screams
1991
single work
review
— Appears in: Reading Time : The Journal of the Children's Book Council of Australia , vol. 35 no. 3 1991; (p. 22)
— Review of Selby Speaks 1988 single work children's fiction ; Selby Screams 1989 single work children's fiction -
Magical Gorilla in a Hat and Coat
1991
single work
review
— Appears in: Herald Sun , 2 March 1991; (p. 58)
— Review of Selby Speaks 1988 single work children's fiction -
Untitled
1988
single work
review
— Appears in: Magpies : Talking About Books for Children , November vol. 3 no. 5 1988; (p. 30)
— Review of Selby Speaks 1988 single work children's fiction
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[Review] Selby Screams
1991
single work
review
— Appears in: Reading Time : The Journal of the Children's Book Council of Australia , vol. 35 no. 3 1991; (p. 22)
— Review of Selby Speaks 1988 single work children's fiction ; Selby Screams 1989 single work children's fiction -
Untitled
1988
single work
review
— Appears in: Magpies : Talking About Books for Children , November vol. 3 no. 5 1988; (p. 30)
— Review of Selby Speaks 1988 single work children's fiction -
Magical Gorilla in a Hat and Coat
1991
single work
review
— Appears in: Herald Sun , 2 March 1991; (p. 58)
— Review of Selby Speaks 1988 single work children's fiction -
The Nine Lives of Aoi Kashima
1995
single work
prose
— Appears in: Reading Time : The Journal of the Children's Book Council of Australia , May vol. 39 no. 2 1995; (p. 5-7) In this essay, Ball discusses some of the problems that translators encounter when they try to translate his works. He also describes the translation of his books into Japanese by 'Aoi Kashima', who is not actually a single translator, but rather a group of nine Japanese women who translate as a team, working under a pseudonym of their own construction; the name 'Aoi Kashima' is 'made up of letters from the names of the actual translators', Ball writes.
Awards
- 1998 winner KOALA Awards — Junior Book
- 1990 winner West Australian Young Readers' Book Award — Younger Readers
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