Ursula Dubosarsky
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Ursula Dubosarsky was born in Ursula Coleman, Sydney, in 1961. She is an Australian writer of fiction and non-fiction for children and young adults, whose work is characterised by a child's vision and voice. She has won nine national literary prizes, including five New South Wales Premier's mostra altro Literary Awards. She is the author of illustrated books and novels, and also three works of non-fiction about the English language, grammar and etymology for children, featuring a comically enthusiastic character known as "The Word Spy". These "Word Spy" books, illustrated by Tohby Riddle, have won the New South Wales Premier's Literary Award, the Children's Book Council of Australia Junior Judges' Award and Book of the Year Award. In the United States and Canada "The Word Spy" is published under the title "The Word Snoop. Three of her books have been adapted for theatre - "The Red Shoe", "The Terrible Plop" and "Too Many Elephants In This House". She is a Hans Christian Andersen Award Nominee and a Astrid Lindgren Memorial Award Nominee. (Bowker Author Biography) mostra meno
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The Great War: Stories Inspired by Items from the First World War (2015) — Collaboratore — 107 copie
The Road to Camelot: Tales of the Young Merlin, Arthur, Lancelot and More (2002) — Collaboratore — 38 copie
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Informazioni generali
- Data di nascita
- 1961-06-25
- Sesso
- female
- Nazionalità
- Australia
- Luogo di nascita
- Sydney, New South Wales, Australia
- Luogo di residenza
- Canberra, Australian Capital Territory, Australia
- Istruzione
- Macquarie University (PhD - English Literature)
University of Sydney (BA Hons ∙ DipEd)
SCEGGS Darlinghurst - Attività lavorative
- novelist
children's book author - Relazioni
- Coleman, Peter (father)
Coleman, Verna (mother)
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The Return of the Word Spy: A Funny and Fantastic…
Brilliant funny interesting informative and did I say funny
This spooky little book catches the edge of things just right - the boundaries of what we know about each other, the line between tame gardens and wild places, the quick switch in the fall between bright afternoons and surprisingly dark evenings, and on and on. It's murky, secretive, beautiful territory. I love when I can't really say whether it's realistic fiction or fantasy because it depends on what you choose to believe.
This book is awesome! (hyperbole) I love great book, a grook (portmanteau).
Good, but I never really got completely involved in the story.
FROM SYNC: There were only eleven of them, like eleven sisters all the same age in a large family...
On the television news they heard gunfire and the sound of helicopter blades and bombs falling. The little girls hung on to the brink of a hugeness that they knew was there but had no way of discovering.
The Vietnam War rages overseas, but back at home, in a year that begins with the hanging of one man and ends with the drowning of another, eleven schoolgirls embrace their own chilling history when their teacher abruptly goes missing on a field trip. Who was the mysterious poet they met in the garden? What actually happened that day? And most important, who can they tell about it?
In beautifully crafted prose that shimmers and fades, Ursula Dubosarsky reveals how a single shared experience can alter the course of young lives forever. Part gripping thriller, part ethereal tale of innocence lost, The Golden Day is a poignant study of fear and friendship, and of what it takes to come of age with courage.
Each chapter has a title from a work of art by Charles Blackman.… (altro)
FROM SYNC: There were only eleven of them, like eleven sisters all the same age in a large family...
On the television news they heard gunfire and the sound of helicopter blades and bombs falling. The little girls hung on to the brink of a hugeness that they knew was there but had no way of discovering.
The Vietnam War rages overseas, but back at home, in a year that begins with the hanging of one man and ends with the drowning of another, eleven schoolgirls embrace their own chilling history when their teacher abruptly goes missing on a field trip. Who was the mysterious poet they met in the garden? What actually happened that day? And most important, who can they tell about it?
In beautifully crafted prose that shimmers and fades, Ursula Dubosarsky reveals how a single shared experience can alter the course of young lives forever. Part gripping thriller, part ethereal tale of innocence lost, The Golden Day is a poignant study of fear and friendship, and of what it takes to come of age with courage.
Each chapter has a title from a work of art by Charles Blackman.… (altro)
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Statistiche
- Opere
- 63
- Opere correlate
- 4
- Utenti
- 1,461
- Popolarità
- #17,584
- Voto
- 3.7
- Recensioni
- 52
- ISBN
- 249
- Lingue
- 5