''The Crooked Snake'' (1955) is the first novel by Australian author Patricia Wrightson. The book was illustrated by Margaret Horder. It won the Children's Book of the Year Award: Older Readers in 1956.Austlit - ''The Crooked Snake'' by Patricia Wrightson
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Plot outline

A gang of children form a secret society to protect a nearby national park from vandals. They record the bush with a camera and write to the Ministry of Conservation requesting the park be designated a flora and fauna sanctuary.

Critical reception

In a survey of Australian children's books dealing with the Australian bush, Susan Sheridan and Emma Maguire noted: "In their preferred method of research, and in their dealings with the bureaucracy, these children mark out a specifically modern, as well as Australian, mode of the Enid Blyton or Arthur Ransome adventure story in a natural setting.""Relationships to the Bush in Nan Chauncy’s Early Novels for Children" by Susan Sheridan and Emma Maguire, JASAL, Vol. 14, No. 3, 2014
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References

{{DEFAULTSORT:Crooked Snake, The Australian children's novels Novels by Patricia Wrightson 1955 Australian novels Novels set in Australia CBCA Children's Book of the Year Award-winning works 1955 children's books Angus & Robertson books Children's books set in Australia

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