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The Endless Playground: Celebrating Australian Childhood

Compiled and edited by Paul Cliff

Following in the series established by Acquired Tastes: Celebrating Australia's Culinary History, and A Sporting Nation: Celebrating Australia's Sporting Life, this lavishly illustrated book takes a broad sweep through the history of Australian childhood, from the early nineteenth century to the present. Drawing on material from the Library's Pictorial, Manuscript, Ephemera and Newspaper Collections, and using excerpts from the Oral History Collection, in addition to specially commissioned feature articles from Robert Holden, and children's writers Steven Herrick, Ursula Dubosarsky and Jack Bedson, the book surveys and celebrates two centuries of growing up in Australia.

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About the Editor:

Paul Cliff a freelance Writer and Editor. He is the author of the publication Spirit of Australia (1989) and has contributed to various Australian and International journals in the areas of poetry, Australiana, environment, natural history and travel and tourism.

ISBN 0 642 10724 6
2000, pb, 215 x 265 mm, b&w and colour illus.

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Last updated 14 November 2000