Christobel Mattingley
Auteur de No Gun for Asmir
A propos de l'auteur
Christobel Mattingley was born at Brighton, South Australia, on October 26, 1931. She started writing when she was 10, in the children's pages of a nature magazine. While her children were growing up, she worked as a librarian in schools and a teacher's college. Her first book was published in 1970 afficher plus and she has been a full time writer since 1974. Mattingley is the author of 42 books. Some have been shortlisted for awards, and some have won awards. Cockawun and Cockatoo was named a Notable Book in the Children's Book Council Awards for 2000 and received a Certificate of Merit in the Whitley Awards for the Best Children's Novel of 2000 of the Royal Zoological Society of New South Wales.She has also received an Advance Australia Award, an Honorary Doctorate of the University of South Australia, and been made a Member of the Order of Australia for my contribution to literature. She won the inaugural Children¿s Book Council of Australia Junior Book of the Year Award in 1982 for Rummage. The Race was an Honour Book in the 1996 Children¿s Book Council of Australia Picture Book of the Year Awards. As well as writing for children, Christobel has written film scripts, short stories, articles and poetry. In 1990 she received the Advance Australia Award for Service to Literature, and in 1996 she was made a Member of the Order of Australia for service to literature, particularly children's literature, and for community service through her commitment to social and cultural issues. No Gun for Asmir received a High Commendation in the Australian Human Rights Awards of 1994. In 1990 she received the ultimate accolade an Advance Australia Medal for her contribution to literature in Australia. (Bowker Author Biography) afficher moins
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Œuvres de Christobel Mattingley
Survival in Our Own Land: 'Aboriginal' Experiences in 'South Australia' since 1836 (1988) 29 exemplaires
Miracle tree, The 1 exemplaire
My Father's Islands Abel Tasman's Heroic Voyages 1 exemplaire
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Partage des connaissances
- Date de naissance
- 1931-10-26
- Sexe
- female
- Nationalité
- Australia
- Lieux de résidence
- Brighton, South Australia, Australia
- Prix et distinctions
- Pheme Tanner Award (1999)
Advance Australia Medal (1990)
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My Father's Islands Abel Tasman's Heroic Voyages par Christobel Mattingley
6/10
Poignant story about a difficult topic. Despair, loneliness, survival, remorse, forgiveness; this is a good book for introducing hard things.
Asmir es un niño musulmán que vive en Sarajevo, ciudad que la guerra ha convertido en un infierno. Junto a su hermano, su madre y su abuela consigue coger un avión que les aleja del peligro. Sin embargo, su padre se ha quedado atrás.
I've been looking for this book for ages but it was a bit expensive to buy new. Then found a great copy at the local market for $10. Bargain! It's a lovely book with truly lovely botanical illustrations. It seems to have been written for an exhibition held in the National Library of Australia and has a nice biographical article about Adam Forster. Actually, his real name was Carl Ludwig August Wiarda and he was German. But changed his name....understandably during the anti German attitudes of the first world war.....and adopting the name of a German English naturalist painter. Forster himself seems to have been quite a formidable character...emigrating first to South Africa (marrying there and having three children) thence to Australia to "establish himself". It took over 8 years before he was reunited with wife and children. Most of his career was spent as Registrar of the Pharmaceutical Board.
But, on the side he was a significant botanical painter ....in fact he did most ...if not all of the illustrations for the book Wild Flowers of Australia published in 1938 for the first time. At the time of his death (in 1928) Forster had painted 928 paintings of Australian wildflowers. They are lovely works and nicely reproduced in this book.....though it's a mini book and I would have liked to see a larger format. In a few cases there are enlargements of the individual works so one can see the brushwork and drawing more readily. One advantage (for the artist) of the small size is that the paintings look even more wizardly at the reduced scale....and any defects are minimised.
There are a nice selection of plants and flowers....most of them from around the Sydney region..and I recognise most of them. He has also painted a few of insects including all the cicadas that i remember from my youth: Double drummers, Greengrocers, Yellow Mondays. ......and lovely work. I know my friends with whom I meet for botanical painting sessions will be entranced by his work. Maybe, it's a bit more free-flowing and less detailed that some of theirs but the local subject matter will be familiar to all...and I know some of our group have painted the same species so will be really interested in how Adam Forster painted them.
No hesitation in awarding this book five stars.… (plus d'informations)
But, on the side he was a significant botanical painter ....in fact he did most ...if not all of the illustrations for the book Wild Flowers of Australia published in 1938 for the first time. At the time of his death (in 1928) Forster had painted 928 paintings of Australian wildflowers. They are lovely works and nicely reproduced in this book.....though it's a mini book and I would have liked to see a larger format. In a few cases there are enlargements of the individual works so one can see the brushwork and drawing more readily. One advantage (for the artist) of the small size is that the paintings look even more wizardly at the reduced scale....and any defects are minimised.
There are a nice selection of plants and flowers....most of them from around the Sydney region..and I recognise most of them. He has also painted a few of insects including all the cicadas that i remember from my youth: Double drummers, Greengrocers, Yellow Mondays. ......and lovely work. I know my friends with whom I meet for botanical painting sessions will be entranced by his work. Maybe, it's a bit more free-flowing and less detailed that some of theirs but the local subject matter will be familiar to all...and I know some of our group have painted the same species so will be really interested in how Adam Forster painted them.
No hesitation in awarding this book five stars.… (plus d'informations)
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Statistiques
- Œuvres
- 52
- Aussi par
- 4
- Membres
- 677
- Popularité
- #37,312
- Évaluation
- 4.0
- Critiques
- 15
- ISBN
- 150
- Langues
- 5