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- 1 2 ""Children's Book Week"". Canberra Times, 8 July 1972, p13. Retrieved 9 December 2024.
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- ↑ Innocence & Experience: Essays on Contemporary Australian Children's Writers by Walter McVitty, Nelson, 1981, p157