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John Mystery and the Adventure Castle

December 17, 2015

The wonderful librarian at Monash University’s Rare Books (Stephen Perrin) has shared with me just a few of the many ‘John Mystery’ publications in the collection. John Mystery was an Australian children’s publishing phenomenon. He published hundreds of small, cheap books for children during the late 1930s and 1940s, for very … Continue reading →

Filed under : Fairy Tales , On Campus (and off) , On Reading , Research
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Tags : Aladdin , Ali Baba and the Forty Thieves , Austlit , Australian Women's Weekly , Buried Treasure , cobber , Daily Mercury , Derrick Moor , Ellen Sinclair , Fairies , Fairies ABC , Illawong , John Mystery , Juliet O'Conor , Lester Basil Sinclair , Monash University Rare Books Collection , Monte Christo , Ocean Gold , Publicity Press , Stephen Perrin , The Death Clock , The Gold Bug

The Butterfly’s Ball & The Grasshopper’s Feast

December 15, 2015

For the past few weeks I’ve been in Melbourne, on research leave, working on two novels (the endgame of one, the beginnings of another), attending conferences and  so on. One of the most excellent things I’ve been doing is messing about in the Monash University’s Rare Books Collection, most specifically … Continue reading →

Filed under : Fairy Tales , On art and other catastrophes , On Campus (and off) , On Reading , Research
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Tags : Alan Aldridge , children's literature , Deep Purple , fairy tale , John Harris , Love Is All , Monash University Rare Books Collection , Original Juvenile Library , poem , Roger Glover , Roscoe , The Butterfly's Ball and the Grasshopper's Feast