Seven Little Australians was a bestseller on publication. Its vibrant, social-mores-smashing heroine, Judy, has influenced generations of literary rebels since.
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Shaun Tan’s groundbreaking graphic story, The Arrival, counters the dangerous fantasy of a homogeneous (white) Australia – and invites us to inhabit the other.
Ruth Park’s classic asks us to inhabit the past as a real place – just as 14-year-old Abigail does, when she’s transported from 1980 to 1873, in Sydney’s The Rocks.
Storm Boy, Colin Thiele’s book set on South Australia’s Coorong bird sanctuary, has been internationally hailed as one of the few lasting children’s classics.
