Playing Beatie Bow

Teacher Resource Essay

Publisher's synopsis

‘Now then,’ thought Abigail, ‘something very weird has happened to me. I’m in the last century. I don’t know why, and that doesn’t matter. I’ve got to get back.’

Every so often, there comes a story so brilliant and lively and moving that it cannot be left in the past. Rediscover the magic of our country’s most memorable children’s books in the Penguin Australia Children’s Classics series of stories too precious to leave behind.

Awards

Winner 1981 CBCA Children’s Book of the Year Award
Winner 1982 Parents’ Choice Award for Literature
Winner 1982 Boston Globe–Horn Book Award
Winner 1982 International Board on Books for Young People (Australia) Honour Diploma
Runner up 1982 Guardian Fiction Prize (UK)

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Ruth Park

Born in New Zealand, Ruth Park came to Australia in 1942 to continue her career as a journalist. She married the writer D’Arcy Niland and travelled with him through the north-west of New South Wales before settling in Sydney where she became a full-time writer.

She has written over fifty books, and her many awards include the prestigious Miles Franklin Award for Swords and Crowns and Rings; the Australian Children’s Book of the Year Award and the Boston Globe-Horn Book Award (USA) for Playing Beatie Bow and The Age Book of the Year Award for A Fence Around the Cuckoo.

She was made a Member of the Order of Australia in 1987 and in 1994 was awarded an Honorary Doctor of Letters from the University of New South Wales. Ruth Park passed away in December 2010.

Further Details

Author Ruth Park

Publisher Penguin Random House Australia

Date of Publication 1982

ISBN 9780670076864 (print)

Category Children's Books

SCIS number

5472993