The Golden Age: a journey through the renaissance of 80s and 90s Australian children's books
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AUTHORS of the Golden Age
the authors alongside some of their titles from the Golden Age
Julie Ireland (A Face in the Window, A Kind of Dreaming)
David Rish (Follow the Dog, Detective Paste)
Wendy Orr (Ark in the Park, Leaving it to You, The Tin Can Puppy)
Hazel Edwards (General Store, There's a Hippopotamus On Our Roof Eating Cake)
Sally Odgers (Five Easy Lessons, Aurora, Shadowdancers)
Duncan Ball (Emily Eyefinger, Selby the Talking Dog)
Allan Baillie (Adrift, The China Coin)
Nadia Wheatley (The House that Was Eureka, Five Times Dizzy)
Caroline Macdonald (The Lake at the End of the World, Secret Lives)
Penny Hall (Catalyst, The Paperchaser)
Gillian Rubinstein (Space Demons, Answers to Brut)
Jenny Pausacker (What Are Ya?, Mr Enigmatic)
Sonya Hartnett (Wilful Blue, Sleeping Dogs)
Catherine Jinks (Witch Bank, Pagan's Vows)
Margaret Clark (Fat Chance, Mango Street Mania)
Melina Marchetta (Looking for Alibrandi)
Margo Lanagan (The Best Thing, Touching Earth Lightly)
Maureen McCarthy (Queen Kat, Carmel, and St Jude Get a Life)
Pamela Freeman (Victor's Quest, Windrider)
Susanne Gervay (Jamie's a Hero, The Cave)
Isobelle Carmody (Greylands, Scatterlings)
Nette Hilton (The Web, Square Pegs)
Graeme Base (The Eleventh Hour, Animalia)
Sophie Masson (Cold Iron, The Sun is Rising)
Emily Rodda (Something Special, Finders Keepers)
Victor Kelleher (Fire Dancer, The Red King)
John Marsden (Letters from the Inside, So Much to Tell You)
Robin Klein (Hating Alison Ashley, Games, Penny Pollard's Diary)
Simon French (Cannily, Cannily, Hey Phantom Singlet)
Jackie French (Walking the Boundaries, Annie's Pouch)
Lilith Norman (Grandpa, A Dream of Seas)
Libby Gleeson (Dodger, Mum Goes to Work)
Libby Hathorn (All About Anna, Thunderwith)
Maureen Sherlock (Pink Fluffy Slippers)
Mary K. Pershall (You Take the High Road)
Judith Clarke (Night Train, Wolf on Fold)
Dianne Bates (Grandma Cadbury's Trucking Tales, Piggy Moss)
Max Dann (The Lonely Hearts Club, One Night at Lottie's House)
Steven Herrick (Water Bombs)
Meredith Costain (Musical Harriet)
Gary Crew (The Watertower, Strange Objects)
Margaret Barbalet (The Wolf)
Anthony Hill (The Burnt Stick)
Garry Disher (The Bamboo Flute)
Morris Gleitzman (Second Childhood, Misery Guts)
Paul Jennings (Unbelievable!, Granddad's Gifts)
Elizabeth Honey (Honey Sandwich, 45 Stella Street)
Nan Hunt (Never Tomorrow, Whistle Up the Chimney)
Ruth Park (Playing Beattie Bow)
Sue Gough (A Long Way to Tipperary, Wyrd)
Rachel Flynn (I Hate Fridays)
Lee Harding (Displaced Person)
Maureen Stewart (Out of It, Dear Emily)
Donna Sharp (Blue Days)
Goldie Alexander (Mavis Road Medley)
Bron Nicholls (Mullaway)
Kate Walker (Peter, The Dragon of Mith)
Ursula Dubosarsky (The White Guinea-Pig, Bruno and the Crumhorn)
Diana Kidd (Onion Tears)
Eleanor Nilsson (The House Guest, Outside Permission)
Moya Simon (Sit Down Mum, There's Something I've Got To Tell You)
Thurley Fowler (The Caretakers, There's a Bushranger in My Bedroom)
Mem Fox (Koala Lou, Night Noises)
Doug Macleod (Sister Madge's Book of Nuns)
Jeannie Baker (Window, Polar)
Jenny Wagner (Message to Avalon, The Nimbin)
Margaret Wild (Our Granny, The Very Best of Friends)
Anna Fienberg (Tashi)
Mary Small (Tracey McBean's Stretching Machine)
Anne Farrell (The Gift-Wrapped Pony, The Calf on Shale Hill)
Joanne Horniman (Sand Monkeys, Loving Athena)
David McRobbie (Mandragora, Prices)
Mike Dumbleton (Dial-a-Croc)
Brian Caswell (A Cage of Butterflies)
James Moloney (A Bridge to Wiseman's Cove)
ILLUSTRATORS of the Golden Age
Donna Rawlins (Digging to China, My Place, Tucking Mummy In)
Craig Smith (Where's Mum?, Whistle Up the Chimney, Billy the Punk, The Giant's Tooth)
Ann James (Jessica Joan, Skating on Sand, A Pet for Mrs Arbuckle)
Margaret Power (The Long Red Scarf, Cat-Face)
David Legge (Bamboozled, Would You?)
Patricia Mullins (Crocodile Beat, Shoes from Grandpa)
Rod Clement (Just An Ordinary Day, Edward the Emu)
Anne Spudvilas (The Race)
Kim Gamble (Arabella, Our Fete)
Kerry Millard (Nim's Island, Just Like Emily)
David Cox (The Big Boast, Queen of the Universe)
Andrew Mclean (Steam Train Crew)
Janet Mclean (Dog Tales)
Kerry Argent (Wombat Divine, One Woolly Wombat)
Dee Huxley (Mr Nick's Knitting, Light the Lamps)
Jane Tanner (The Wolf, Playmates)
Deborah Niland (There's a Hippopotamus on Our Roof Eating Cake)
Kilmeny Niland (Sheep Shape, My Brother John)
Noela Young (Something Special, Toby)
Cathy Wilcox (A Proper Little Lady, Bus Fuss)
Ron Brooks (John Brown, Rose and the Midnight Cat)
Alison Lester (Clive Eats Alligators)
Roland Harvey (Sick As!)
CREATIVES, ADVOCATES & GATEKEEPERS of the Golden Age
Linsay Knight
Kerry White & Marcie Muir (I am indebted to their bibliography work which has been the greatest resource I could ever find)
Julie Watts
Anne Godden
Anne Bower Ingram
Lisa Berryman
Maryann Ballantyne
Belinda Bolliger
Laura Harris
Kay Ronai
Maurice Saxby
George Dale
Walter McVitty
Belle Alderman
Margaret Hamilton
Jon Appleton
Erica Wagner
Sue Williams
Jane Covernton
Agnes Nieuwenhuizen
Jane Godwin
Jennifer Rowe
Robin Morrow
Beryl Matthews
Cathie Tasker
Dyan Blacklock
Mark MacLeod
Barbara Mobbs
Helen Chamberlin
Laurie Copping
Margaret Dunkle
Rosalind Price
Margaret Connolly
Margaret Kennedy
Barbara Ker Wilson
Rita Hart
Robert Sessions
Leonie Tyle
Aidan Chambers
Celia Jellett
Robert Sessions
Ann Haddon
Albert Ullin
Robyn Sheahan-Bright
The 'Golden Age' Project
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Books that Made Me
Authors that Shaped Me
The People of the Golden Age
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Images & Memorabilia
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