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'Cath Murphy, second-grade teacher, was feeling awkward and foolish, but she also felt this: quirky, cocky, small, funny, wicked and extremely blonde. As her mother liked to say, all meetings with new people, even locksmiths or seven-year-olds, can make you a little afraid. She was about to meet her new class and she had just met the new teacher: Warren Woodford.However, Cath Murphy has yet to meet the Zing family...' (Publication summary)
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Dedication: To Colin with love.
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Publisher's note: A fairytale for grown- ups.
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Re-written as The Spell Book of Listen Taylor and the Secrets of the Family Zing.
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Undercover
2007
single work
column
— Appears in: The Sydney Morning Herald , 29-30 September 2007; (p. 30) A column canvassing current literary news including the announcement of the publication of Jaclyn Moriarty's The Spell Book of Listen Taylor and the Secrets of the Family Zing. Wyndham says: 'Moriarty spent a year rewriting [I Have a Bed Made of Buttermilk Pancakes], which raises interesting questions about what distinguishes adult and teen fiction. "I didn't try to dumb it down," [Moriarty] says, "or change the vocabulary ... but I restructured it so the story opens with the girl and other things start to shift."' -
In Short : Fiction
2004
single work
review
— Appears in: The Sydney Morning Herald , 11-12 December 2004; (p. 14)
— Review of I Have a Bed Made of Buttermilk Pancakes 2004 single work novel ; Westerly vol. 49 no. November 2004 periodical issue ; Taking Care of Business : Cliff Hardy Cases 2004 selected work short story -
An Adult Fairytale, Sweet as Fairy Floss
2004
single work
review
— Appears in: The Age , 20 November 2004; (p. 5)
— Review of I Have a Bed Made of Buttermilk Pancakes 2004 single work novel
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An Adult Fairytale, Sweet as Fairy Floss
2004
single work
review
— Appears in: The Age , 20 November 2004; (p. 5)
— Review of I Have a Bed Made of Buttermilk Pancakes 2004 single work novel -
In Short : Fiction
2004
single work
review
— Appears in: The Sydney Morning Herald , 11-12 December 2004; (p. 14)
— Review of I Have a Bed Made of Buttermilk Pancakes 2004 single work novel ; Westerly vol. 49 no. November 2004 periodical issue ; Taking Care of Business : Cliff Hardy Cases 2004 selected work short story -
Undercover
2007
single work
column
— Appears in: The Sydney Morning Herald , 29-30 September 2007; (p. 30) A column canvassing current literary news including the announcement of the publication of Jaclyn Moriarty's The Spell Book of Listen Taylor and the Secrets of the Family Zing. Wyndham says: 'Moriarty spent a year rewriting [I Have a Bed Made of Buttermilk Pancakes], which raises interesting questions about what distinguishes adult and teen fiction. "I didn't try to dumb it down," [Moriarty] says, "or change the vocabulary ... but I restructured it so the story opens with the girl and other things start to shift."'
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