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They are available on the Allen & Unwin website. The teacher notes include many classroom activities linked to the national curriculum. I wrote the teacher notes for the publisher so I will let them speak for me further about this novel and will only give one suggestion here, Bookstyling. The boy protagonist, and Brindabella’s points of view. Reader expectations are challenged when Brindabella (the joey) and the otherĪnimals begin to speak to each other. Tale then seems to become a conventional narrative about raising a joey, but

These create a great sense of place and include the river and valley and, particularly, the wall of trees when we enter the bush. It opens with a sense of mystery, largely generated by the sensory descriptions. This junior novel is intriguing and unpredictable. She is a Hans Christian Andersen Award Nominee and a Astrid Lindgren Memorial Award Nominee.Shortlisted in the Younger Reader category of the 2019 CBCA short list. Three of her books have been adapted for theatre - "The Red Shoe", "The Terrible Plop" and "Too Many Elephants In This House". In the United States and Canada "The Word Spy" is published under the title "The Word Snoop. 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. 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". She has won nine national literary prizes, including five New South Wales Premier's Literary Awards. 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.

Ursula Dubosarsky was born in Ursula Coleman, Sydney, in 1961.
