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Robin Klein
Robin McMaugh Klein (born 28 February 1936) is an Australian author of books for children. She was born in Kempsey, New South Wales, Australia, and now resides near Melbourne. Early life Robin Klein is one of nine children. She had her first short story published at the age of 16. She worked in number of jobs before becoming an established writer, including tea lady at a warehouse, bookshop assistant, nurse, copper enamelist, and program aide at a school for disadvantaged children. In 1981, she was awarded a Literature Board grant for writing, and since then, she has had more than 20 books published. She is the poet of the poem "Amanda!". Robin Klein was educated at Newcastle Girls' High School. Career Several of her books have been Short list, short-listed for the Children's Book Council of Australia (CBCA) Australian Children's Book of the Year Award, Children's Book of the Year Award, including ''Hating Alison Ashley (novel), Hating Alison Ashley'' (also a Hating Alison Ashl ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
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Boss Of The Pool
''Boss of the Pool'' is a children's book by Australian author Robin Klein and also is the name of a play adaptation by Scottish-Australian playwright Mary Morris. The story follows a teenage girl called Shelley, who must accompany her mother to work in the summer holidays as her mother has no other way of minding her. Her mother works at a hostel for people with disabilities, and Shelley meets a boy called Ben, who really likes her, but is afraid of water. Shelley helps teach Ben to overcome his fear of the water. Book The book was published in 1986. It addresses topics of disabilities and literacy and is discussed in numerous works about those topics. Kirkus gave it a starred review: "This is an extraordinary book in honestly depicting the fear and cruel taunts that are common and perhaps natural in children who confront people who are different before they understand their humanity." Another reviewer puts it among contemporary junior novels comparable to Beverly Cleary's ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
1936 Births
Events January–February * January 20 – George V of the United Kingdom and the British Dominions and Emperor of India, dies at his Sandringham Estate. The Prince of Wales succeeds to the throne of the United Kingdom as King Edward VIII. * January 28 – Britain's King George V state funeral takes place in London and Windsor. He is buried at St George's Chapel, Windsor Castle * February 4 – Radium E (bismuth-210) becomes the first radioactive element to be made synthetically. * February 6 – The 1936 Winter Olympics, IV Olympic Winter Games open in Garmisch-Partenkirchen, Germany. * February 10–February 19, 19 – Second Italo-Ethiopian War: Battle of Amba Aradam – Italian forces gain a decisive tactical victory, effectively neutralizing the army of the Ethiopian Empire. * February 16 – 1936 Spanish general election: The left-wing Popular Front (Spain), Popular Front coalition takes a majority. * February 26 – February 26 Inci ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Richard Lowenstein
Richard Lowenstein (born 1 March 1959) is an Australian filmmaker. He has written, produced and directed: feature films, including '' Strikebound'' (1984), ''Dogs in Space'' (1986) and ''He Died with a Felafel in His Hand'' (2001); music videos for bands such as INXS and U2; concert performance films, '' Australian Made: The Movie'' (1987) and '' U2: LoveTown'' (1989); and TV adverts. Biography Richard Lowenstein was born on 1 March 1959 in Melbourne. His mother was the author, oral historian, and activist, Wendy Lowenstein (née Katherin Wendy Robertson, 1927–2006). His father is Werner Lowenstein, also an activist, who had fled Nazi Germany to United Kingdom and was relocated to Australia in 1940 as one of the ''Dunera'' boys. The couple married in July 1947; and had three children, Peter, Martie and Richard. Lowenstein attended Brinsley Road Community School from 1973 to 1974; and graduated from Swinburne Institute of Technology, Film and Television Department in 1979. ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Mary Morris
Mary Lilian Agnes Morris (13 December 1915 – 14 October 1988) was a Fijian born British actress. Life and career Morris was the daughter of Herbert Stanley Morris, a botanist, and his wife, Sylvia Ena de Creft-Harford. She trained at the Royal Academy of Dramatic Art. Morris made her debut in ''Lysistrata'' at the Gate Theatre, London in 1935. She performed with Leslie Howard in ''"Pimpernel" Smith'' (1941) and Anna Petrovitch in the Ealing Studios, Ealing war movie ''Undercover (1943 film), Undercover'' (1943) as the wife of a Serbian guerrilla leader. On television, she played Professor Madeleine Dawnay in the science-fiction television drama ''A for Andromeda'' (and its sequel, ''The Andromeda Breakthrough''), Queen Margaret in the BBC's ''An Age of Kings'' (a version of Shakespeare's History Plays), Lady Macbeth in the 1960 radio production of Macbeth, and Cleopatra in ''Antony and Cleopatra'' (as part of the BBC's adaptation of Shakespeare's Roman plays, ''The Spread of ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Cathy Wilcox
Cathy Wilcox (born 1963) is an Australian cartoonist and children's book illustrator, best known for her work as a cartoonist for ''The Sydney Morning Herald'' and ''The Age'' newspapers. She has also twice won the Australian Children's Book Council's 'Picture Book of the Year' award. In 2007 she won the Walkley Award in Cartooning for a cartoon about Sheikh Taj el-Din al Hilaly's infamous 'uncovered meat' remarks on Australian women. She went on to win a second Walkley Award in Cartoon for 'Kevin Cleans Up' and a third in 2017 for 'Low-cost Housing, London' which is a reference to the Grenfell Tower fire in North Kensington, London. Wilcox won her first Australian Cartoonist Association ''Stanley'' Award for Best Editorial/Political Cartoonist and Best Single Gag Artist for her work in ''The Sydney Morning Herald'' in 1994. Since then, she has received a ''Stanley'' Award for Single Gag Cartoonist in 1997, 2014 and 2015 and was a finalist in 2018. Wilcox was named Cartoonis ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Rolf Heimann
Rolf Heimann (born 9 May 1940) is an Australian author, cartoonist and illustrator. Heimann was born in Dresden, Germany, fled to the West in 1955 and migrated to Australia in 1959. Biography He is the author of over thirty books, including novels, travel books, cartoon collections, but mainly of children's books, which have been translated into German, Danish, Spanish, and Chinese and have sold millions of copies worldwide. In 1974 Heimann skippered La Flor (renamed Greenpeace IV for the voyage) from Melbourne, Australia, to Mururoa via New Zealand but arrived after the final nuclear test for the year. Heimann has been cartooning since the mid-seventies and is a member of the Australian Black and White (cartoonists) Association. He has contributed cartoons to numerous publications in Australia and overseas. Among his most popular works are the 'Eagle Eyes' series of books published in the late 1980s and early 1990s. Awards and recognitions He was named Australian Cartooni ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Ann James
Ann Catherine Stewart James (born 6 October 1952) is an Australian illustrator of more than 60 children's books, some of which she also wrote. She was born in Melbourne, Victoria. James has been illustrating books since the 1980s and has become a significant contributor towards the development and appreciation of children's literature in Australia. In 2000 she was awarded the Pixie O'Harris Award as a formal acknowledgment of this contribution and was also the 2002 recipient of the national Dromkeen Medal for services towards children's literature. Ann James currently still lives and works in Melbourne, where she runs the Books Illustrated gallery and studio that she co-founded with Ann Haddon in 1988. Biography Ann James was born in Melbourne, Australia, in October 1952, and grew up in the suburb of Ringwood. She attended Norwood Primary School and Tintern Girls School. Later she earned the Higher Diploma at Melbourne Teachers College. Trained as an arts and crafts teacher, s ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Dromkeen Medal
The Dromkeen Medal is a literary prize awarded annually by the Courtney Oldmeadow Children's Literature Foundation for those who have advanced children's literature in Australia. The Medal was established by bookseller, Joyce Oldmeadow in 1982, and is named after the property, Dromkeen Homestead, near Riddell's Creek, Victoria which the Oldmeadow family purchased in 1973, and established as a children's literature museum. The State Library of Victoria has presented the Dromkeen Medal since 2013. List of medal winners 1980s *1982 Lu Rees AM MBE *1983 Maurice Saxby AM *1984 Patricia Wrightson OBE *1985 Anne Bower Ingram OAM *1986 Albert Ullin OAM *1987 Joan Phipson AM *1988 Patricia Scott AM *1989 Robert Ingpen AM 1990s *1990 Mem Fox AM *1991 Robin Klein *1992 Julie Vivas *1993 Alf Mappin *1994 Agnes Nieuwenhuizen *1995 Jennifer Rowe AC *1996 Belle Alderman AM *1997 Colin Thiele AC *1998 Graeme Base *1999 Barbara Ker Wilson AM 2000s *2000 Paul Jennings AM *2001 Juli ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
People Might Hear You
''People Might Hear You'' is a children's novel by Robin Klein Robin McMaugh Klein (born 28 February 1936) is an Australian author of books for children. She was born in Kempsey, New South Wales, Australia, and now resides near Melbourne. Early life Robin Klein is one of nine children. She had her first s ..., first published by Puffin Books in 1983. Summary Don't ever let them know you're here. 'Our religion is for every day we live, every living moment. You mustn't ever raise your voice or call out... people outside might hear you... Frances had a good life until her aunt marries Mr Tyrell. Frances is pushed into a sinister mansion enclosed by unclimbable walls. At first she trustingly accepts her aunt's new life, and tries to be a 'worthy member of the temple'. But as she uncovers its sinister secrets she realises she has to escape ..... Characters Frances, the main character, is a 12-year-old girl. She constantly moves from one apartment to another with Aunt Lori ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Fiction For Older Readers Award
Fiction is any creative work, chiefly any narrative work, portraying individuals, events, or places that are imaginary, or in ways that are imaginary. Fictional portrayals are thus inconsistent with history, fact, or plausibility. In a traditional narrow sense, "fiction" refers to written narratives in prose often referring specifically to novels, novellas, and short stories. More broadly, however, fiction encompasses imaginary narratives expressed in any medium, including not just writings but also live theatrical performances, films, television programs, radio dramas, comics, role-playing games, and video games. Definition Typically, the fictionality of a work is publicly marketed and so the audience expects the work to deviate in some ways from the real world rather than presenting, for instance, only factually accurate portrayals or characters who are actual people. Because fiction is generally understood to not fully adhere to the real world, the themes and conte ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Younger Readers
Younger or Youngers may refer to: People * Younger (surname) * List of people known as the Elder or the Younger Arts and entertainment * ''Younger'', an American novel by Pamela Redmond Satran ** ''Younger'' (TV series), an American sitcom based on the novel * "Younger" (Seinabo Sey song), 2013 * "Younger" (Ruel song), 2018 * "Younger", (Jonas Blue and Hrvy song), 2019 * '' Youngers'', a British teen drama * "Younger", a song by Dala from '' Everyone Is Someone'', 2009 * "Younger", a song by Olly Murs from '' You Know I Know'', 2018 * the Younger family, fictional characters in the play '' A Raisin in the Sun'' Other uses * ''Younger v. Harris'', a decision of the United States Supreme Court * Younger Hall, the main music venue in St Andrews, Scotland * Viscount Younger of Leckie, title in the Peerage of the United Kingdom * Younger (title) Younger is a Scottish convention, style of address, or description traditionally used by the heir apparent to: #A current laird (owner ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
