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'From the moment Tom Downs was born backwards - the moment of his mother's death - time has held him the wrong way round, like he's caught inside a fractured story. But the thing about Tom's town flooding, and the thing that takes him by surprise is not what Old Mother Murray takes away, but who she brings back.' (From the publisher's website.)
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Dedication: For my boys, Caleb and Luke.
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Epigraph: If I had the words I could tell Tom that I am real, even though he can't see me yet, and some days we are so close we can almost touch. That I hold in my memory the moment of our future; because if a backwards birth can be a boy's beginning, then it is possible death is not the end but a big river flowing forward. Tomorrow remembers us; Little and the Fish.
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Included on the 2011 White Ravens list compiled by the International Youth Library in Munich, Germany.
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Connecting Strands : A Yarn of Intrigue for Young Readers
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— Appears in: Fiction Focus : New Titles for Teenagers , vol. 25 no. 4 2011; (p. 56)
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'Big River Little Fish'
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— Appears in: Reading Time : The Journal of the Children's Book Council of Australia , February vol. 55 no. 1 2011; (p. 4-5) -
Under Age
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— Appears in: The Sunday Age , 13 March 2011; (p. 23)
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Big River Little Fish by Belinda Jeffrey
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— Appears in: Buzz Words , October 2010;
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Pick of the Week
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— Appears in: The Age , 18 September 2010; (p. 28)
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[Review] Big River Little Fish
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— Appears in: Bookseller + Publisher Magazine , September vol. 90 no. 2 2010; (p. 25)
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High Tide on Old Mother Murray
2010
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— Appears in: The Canberra Times , 23 October 2010; (p. 22)
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[Review] Big River, Little Fish
2010
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— Appears in: Magpies : Talking About Books for Children , September vol. 25 no. 4 2010; (p. 42)
— Review of Big River, Little Fish 2010 single work novel -
[Review] Big River Little Fish
2010
single work
review
— Appears in: Fiction Focus : New Titles for Teenagers , vol. 24 no. 3 2010; (p. 53)
— Review of Big River, Little Fish 2010 single work novel -
'Big River Little Fish'
2011
single work
column
— Appears in: Reading Time : The Journal of the Children's Book Council of Australia , February vol. 55 no. 1 2011; (p. 4-5) -
Connecting Strands : A Yarn of Intrigue for Young Readers
2012
single work
column
— Appears in: Brisbane News , 20 - 26 June no. 887 2012; (p. 24)
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Settings:
- Murray River,
- South Australia,
- 1956
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