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Tells the story of a family's efforts to raise a baby owl to maturity.
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First edition published simultaneously in Australia and Great Britain.
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Dedication: For FLK, his best friend.
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'Without supernatural assistance, our fellow creatures can tell us the most beautiful stories, and that means true stories, because the truth about nature is always far more beautiful even than what our great poets sing of it, and they are the only real magicians that exist.' / King Solomon's Ring / by Konrad L. Lorenz
Publication Details of Only Known VersionEarliest 2 Known Versions of
Other Formats
- Also braille, sound recording.
Works about this Work
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Another Point of View
1970
single work
criticism
— Appears in: Reading Time : New Books for Boys and Girls , July no. 36 1970; (p. 19-22) Children comment on three novels from the Children's Book Council Book of the Year Award, 1970 -
Children's Book Council of Australia 1970 Judge's Report
1970
single work
criticism
— Appears in: Reading Time : New Books for Boys and Girls , July no. 36 1970; (p. 11-13) -
Untitled
1970
single work
review
— Appears in: Reading Time : New Books for Boys and Girls , March no. 35 1970; (p. 45-46)
— Review of Uhu : (pronounced yoo-hoo) 1969 single work children's fiction
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Untitled
1970
single work
review
— Appears in: Reading Time : New Books for Boys and Girls , March no. 35 1970; (p. 45-46)
— Review of Uhu : (pronounced yoo-hoo) 1969 single work children's fiction -
Children's Book Council of Australia 1970 Judge's Report
1970
single work
criticism
— Appears in: Reading Time : New Books for Boys and Girls , July no. 36 1970; (p. 11-13) -
Another Point of View
1970
single work
criticism
— Appears in: Reading Time : New Books for Boys and Girls , July no. 36 1970; (p. 19-22) Children comment on three novels from the Children's Book Council Book of the Year Award, 1970
Awards
- 1971 joint diplome d' honneur Biennale d'Illustrations de Bratislava (BIB)
- 1970 winner CBCA Book of the Year Awards — Book of the Year Award
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