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Abyssinia

Abyssinia( )
Author: Dubosarsky, Ursula
Read by: Macauley, Rebecca
ISBN:978-1-74093-686-6
Publication Date:Jul 2005
Publisher:Bolinda Publishing Pty, Limited
Imprint:Bolinda Audio
Book Format:CD-Audio
List Price:AUD $65.95
Book Description:

This is the story of two sisters, Mary and Grace. As small children, growing up at their property called Abyssinia, they played with their dolls house together, side by side, always. Grace loved Mary, and Mary loved Grace. But inseparable bonds in life can be unexpectedly shattered. When this happens to Grace, she is plunged into a dark and mesmerising world, a world full of bells and the ringing sky, of odd little children, strange events and frighteningly bizarre grown-ups.

Book Details
Detailed Subjects: Juvenile Fiction / General
Physical Dimensions (W X L X H):17.2 x 15.5 cm
Book Weight:0.5 Kilograms
Author Biography
Dubosarsky, Ursula (Author)


Ursula Dubosarsky was born in Ursula Coleman, Sydney, in 1961. She is an Australian writer of fiction and non-fiction for children and young adults, whose work is characterised by a child's vision and voice. She has won nine national literary prizes, including five New South Wales Premier's Literary Awards. She is the author of illustrated books and novels, and also three works of non-fiction about the English language, grammar and etymology for children, featuring a comically enthusiastic character known as "The Word Spy". These "Word Spy" books, illustrated by Tohby Riddle, have won the New South Wales Premier's Literary Award, the Children's Book Council of Australia Junior Judges' Award and Book of the Year Award. In the United States and Canada "The Word Spy" is published under the title "The Word Snoop. Three of her books have been adapted for theatre - "The Red Shoe", "The Terrible Plop" and "Too Many Elephants In This House".

She is a Hans Christian Andersen Award Nominee and a Astrid Lindgren Memorial Award Nominee.

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