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  SHAUN TAN is an artist, writer and film-maker based in Melbourne. His illustrated books for both adults and children include The Rabbits, The Red Tree, Rules of Summer, Tales from Outer Suburbia and the acclaimed wordless novel The Arrival. In 2011 he received the Astrid Lindgren Memorial Award in Sweden, and an Academy Award for his short animated film The Lost Thing.

  DR JARED THOMAS is a Nukunu person of the Southern Flinders Ranges. Jared’s play Flash Red Ford toured Uganda and Kenya in 1999 and his play Love, Land and Money featured during the 2002 Adelaide Fringe Festival. Jared’s young adult novel Sweet Guy was shortlisted for the South Australian and Victorian Premier’s Literary Awards and his children’s novel Dallas Davis, the Scientist and the City Kids is published in the Oxford University Press Yarning Strong series. His latest novel Calypso Summer won the 2013 State Library of Queensland black&write! Indigenous Writing Fellowship, was shortlisted in the 2014 Victorian Premier’s Literary Award for Indigenous Writing and joined the 2015 International Youth Library White Ravens List – given to books that deserve worldwide attention because of their universal themes and exceptional artistic and literary style and design. His professional career has included roles such as Manager, Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander Arts, Arts South Australia and lecturer at the University of South Australia.

  FIONA WOOD is the author of Six Impossible Things, Wildlife and Cloudwish. Six Impossible Things was shortlisted for the Children’s Book Council of Australia (CBCA) Book of the Year, Older Readers in 2011. Wildlife won the CBCA Award in 2014 and was shortlisted for a number of other awards. Cloudwish won the 2016 Indie Book Award for YA fiction, and is longlisted for the 2016 Gold Inky Award. Her books are published internationally. Before writing YA fiction, Fiona wrote television scripts. She lives in Melbourne with her family.

  MARKUS ZUSAK is the author of five novels: The Underdog, Fighting Ruben Wolfe, When Dogs Cry, The Messenger and The Book Thief.

  About the Indigenous Literacy Foundation

  The Indigenous Literacy Foundation (ILF) was founded by Suzy Wilson and set up by members of the Australian Book Industry in 2005 with the core aim of drawing upon the skills and expertise of the Australian book industry to address literacy levels in remote Indigenous communities.

  The ILF aims to raise literacy levels and improve the lives and opportunities of Indigenous children living in remote and isolated regions. This is done through the delivery of books and literacy resources, publishing and an early literacy program called Book Buzz. In addition, the Foundation advocates to raise community awareness of Indigenous literacy issues.

  Set up in 2011, the Foundation is a not-for-profit charity, without any government or major corporate funding. It works with the support of the Australian Publishers Association, the Australian Booksellers Association and the Australian Society of Authors, along with a team of ambassadors, volunteers and four full-time staff.

  The Foundation’s major fundraising campaign, the Great Book Swap, is held on Indigenous Literacy Day, the first Wednesday in September each year.

  Books Mentioned in the Collection

  Adam’s Empire by Evan Green

  Adventures of the Wishing-Chair by Enid Blyton

  The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn by Mark Twain

  The Adventures of Tom Sawyer by Mark Twain

  American Born Chinese by Gene Luen Yang

  Animal Farm by George Orwell

  Anne of Green Gables by LM Montgomery

  Anne of the Island by LM Montgomery

  Archie Comics by Archie Comic Publications, Inc

  Armada Book for Girls by (Various)

  The Arrival by Shaun Tan

  Ask Annie (Sweet Dreams #17) by Suzanne Rand

  Astro Boy series by Osamu Tezuka

  A Traveller in Time by Alison Uttley

  Australia’s Heritage by Frank Mutsaers

  A Wrinkle in Time by Madeleine L’Engle

  The Baby-Sitters Club series by Ann M Martin

  Ballet Shoes by Noel Streatfeild

  The Bastable series by E Nesbit

  The BFG by Roald Dahl

  Black Jack series by Osamu Tezuka

  Blankets by Craig Thompson

  The Book Thief by Markus Zusak

  The Borrowers by Mary Norton

  Bunchy by Joyce Lankester Brisley

  By the Shores of Silver Lake by Laura Ingalls Wilder

  Calypso Summer by Jared Thomas

  Carrie’s War by Nina Bawden

  The Cat in the Hat by Dr Seuss

  Charlie and the Chocolate Factory by Roald Dahl

  Charlotte Sometimes by Penelope Farmer

  The Children of Green Knowe by LM Boston

  The Children of the New Forest by Capt. Frederick Marryat

  The Chronicles of Narnia by CS Lewis

  Climb a Lonely Hill by Lilith Norman

  Comet in Moominland by Tove Jansson

  Cue for Treason by Geoffrey Trease

  Displaced Person by Lee Harding

  Doraemon Series by Fujiko Fujio

  Dragon Ball Z series by Akira Toriyama

  Dragon Quest: Dai no Daiboken series by Riku Sanjo & Koji Inada

  The Dreaming by Queenie Chan

  Drovers Road by Joyce West

  Earthsea Trilogy by Ursula Le Guin

  Emil and the Detectives by Erich Kästner

  Ethel & Ernest: A True Story by Raymond Briggs

  The Family of Man by Edward Steichen

  Fantastic Mr Fox by Roald Dahl

  Farewell to Shady Glade by Bill Peet

  Farmer Giles of Ham by JRR Tolkien

  The Faraway Tree Series by Enid Blyton

  Fish in the Sky by George Mendoza & Milton Glaser

  The Flame Takers by Lilith Norman

  The Flashman Papers by George MacDonald Fraser

  Flash Red Ford (play) by Jared Thomas

  Flowers in the Attic by VC Andrews

  Fox by Margaret Wild & Ron Brooks

  Free Lunch by Vivian Walsh & J Otto Seibold

  Freedom Ride by Sue Lawson

  Funerals and Circuses (play) by Roger Bennett

  The Gashlycrumb Tinies by Edward Gorey

  Gemma by Noel Streatfeild

  George’s Marvellous Medicine by Roald Dahl

  The Ghost of Thomas Kempe by Penelope Lively

  Ghost World by Daniel Clowes

  Going Back by Penelope Lively

  The Golden Treasury of Poetry by Louis Untermeyer

  The Good Master by Kate Seredy

  Grand Days by Frank Moorhouse

  The Great Escape from City Zoo by Tohby Riddle

  Great Expectations by Charles Dickens

  Green Eggs and Ham by Dr Seuss

  Green Eyes (Sweet Dreams #7) by Suzanne Rand

  Guitar Highway Rose by Brigid Lowry

  Gulliver’s Travels by Jonathan Swift

  Half Magic by Edward Eager

  Hatchet by Gary Paulsen

  The Headless Horseman Rides Tonight – More Poems to Trouble Your Sleep by Jack

  Prelutsky & Arnold Lobel

  Heidi by Johanna Spyri

  High Fidelity by Nick Hornby

  Hills End by Ivan Southall

  The Hobbit by JRR Tolkien

  The Hotspur by DC Thomson & Co (publisher)

  The House on Mango Street by Sandra Cisneros

  The Hunger Games series by Suzanne Collins

  The Iliad by Homer

  The Incredible Here and Now by Felicity Castagna

  The Island by Armin Greder

  James and the Giant Peach by Roald Dahl

  The James Bond series by Ian Fleming

  Jane Eyre by Charlotte Brontë

  Jolliffe’s Outback by Eric Jolliffe

  Josh by Ivan Southall

  Lace by Shirley Conran

  The Lion, the Witch and the Wardrobe by CS Lewis

  Little Golden Books by (various)

  Little House on the Prairie by Laura Ingalls Wilder


  The Little White Horse by Elizabeth Goudge

  Little Women by Louisa May Alcott

  Looking for Alibrandi by Melina Marchetta

  Lord of the Flies by William Golding

  The Lord of the Rings by JRR Tolkien

  Love, Land and Money (play) by Jared Thomas

  The Machine Gunners by Robert Westall

  Magic by the Lake by Edward Eager

  The Magic Finger by Roald Dahl

  Master of the Game by Sidney Sheldon

  Matilda by Roald Dahl

  Megumi no Daigo series by Masahito Soda

  Midnite by Randolph Stow

  Mila 18 by Leon Uris

  Moby-Dick by Herman Melville

  The Mouse and His Child by Russell Hoban

  Mr Chicken Goes to Paris by Leigh Hobbs

  The Mysteries of Harris Burdick by Chris Van Allsburg

  The Mystery of the Midnight Marauder (Trixie Belden #30) by Kathryn Kenny (pseudonym)

  Nancy Drew series by Carolyn Keene (pseudonym)

  The Nargun and the Stars by Patricia Wrightson

  Nineteen Eighty-Four by George Orwell

  No Sugar (play) by Jack Davis

  The Odyssey by Homer

  The Odyssey of Homer by Barbara Leonie Picard

  On the Edge (Sweet Valley High #40) by Francine Pascal

  Once by Morris Gleitzman

  One Fish Two Fish Red Fish Blue Fish by Dr Seuss

  The Outsiders by SE Hinton 192

  The Owl Service by Alan Garner

  Pan’s Whisper by Sue Lawson

  Pellinor Quartet by Alison Croggon

  Persepolis by Marjane Satrapi

  The Popularity Plan (Sweet Dreams #2) by Rosemary Vernon

  The Popularity Summer (Sweet Dreams #20) by Rosemary Vernon

  The Power of One by Bryce Courtenay

  Preep: the Little Pigeon of Trafalgar Square by Milton Shulman & Dale Maxey

  Puberty Blues by Gabrielle Carey & Kathy Lette

  QB VII by Leon Uris

  The Rabbits by John Marsden & Shaun Tan

  The Railway Children by E Nesbit

  The Red Tree by Shaun Tan

  The Rover by DC Thomson & Co (publisher)

  Roy of the Roversby Fleetway Publications (publisher)

  Ruby Moonlight by Ali Cobby Eckermann

  Rumble Fish by SE Hinton

  The Secret Seven Series by Enid Blyton

  Seven Little Australians by Ethel Turner

  Shortcomings by Adrian Tomine

  The Silent Places by Stewart Edward White

  Silly Verse for Kids by Spike Milligan

  The Silver Sword by Ian Serraillier

  Skim by Mariko Tamaki & Jillian Tamaki

  Slaughterhouse-Five by Kurt Vonnegut

  Smith by Leon Garfield

  The Snowman by Raymond Briggs

  The Spark Series by Rachael Craw

  Starry Messenger: Galileo Galilei by Peter Sís

  The Stinky Cheese Man and Other Fairly Stupid Tales by Jon Scieszka & Lane Smith

  Stitches by David Small

  Summer Lightning and Other Stories by Olive Senior

  Swallows and Amazons by Arthur Ransome

  Sweet Dreams series by Francine Pascal

  Sweet Valley High series by Francine Pascal

  The Summer of the Great Secret by Monica Edwards

  The Tenth Power by Kate Constable

  Tex by SE Hinton

  The Three Musketeers by Alexandre Dumas

  Tiger: the Sport & Adventure Picture Story Weekly by Fleetway Publications (publisher)

  Tom’s Midnight Garden by Philippa Pearce

  Tree and Leaf by JRR Tolkien

  Trixie Belden Series by Julie Campbell Tatham & Kathryn Kenny (pseudonym)

  The Trouble with Charlie (Sweet Dreams #24) by Jaye Ellen

  The Twits by Roald Dahl

  Urusei Yatsura series by Rumiko Takahashi

  The Victor by DC Thomson & Co (publisher)

  Watership Down by Richard Adams

  Waltzing Matilda by AB Paterson

  When Hitler Stole Pink Rabbit by Judith Kerr

  When Marnie Was There by Joan G Robinson

  When the Wind Blows by Raymond Briggs

  Where the Wild Things Are by Maurice Sendak

  The White Goddess by Robert Graves

  Why Be Happy When You Could Be Normal? by Jeanette Winterson

  The Witches by Roald Dahl

  Wolfe Brothers trilogy by Markus Zusak

  The World According to Garp by John Irving

  Wuthering Heights by Emily Brontë

  You Don’t Even Know by Sue Lawson

  Zigzag Street by Nick Earls

  Writers Mentioned in the Collection

  Joan Aiken Edward Lear

  Catherine Bateson CS Lewis

  The Brothers Grimm Jan Mark

  Judy Blume AA Milne

  Lewis Carroll E Nesbit

  Paul Celan Charles Perrault

  Aidan Chambers Christopher Pike

  Susan Coolidge Beatrix Potter

  Jackie Collins Harold Robbins

  Caroline B Cooney Siegfried Sassoon

  Fyodor Dostoevsky William Shakespeare

  Michel Foucault RL Stine

  Kenneth Grahame Dylan Thomas

  Alan Garner Dorothy Wall

  May Gibbs Jacqueline Wilson

  Steven Herrick William Wordsworth

  Robin Klein Benjamin Zephaniah

  EL Konigsburg

  Acknowledgements

  Thank you to Sarah Foster and Nicola Robinson for getting things started, and to Mary Verney and the rest of the amazing team at Walker Books Australia for bringing it all together so beautifully. I am so very grateful to the contributors for sharing these delicious slices of their reading lives, and for their generosity in donating their author royalties to the Indigenous Literacy Foundation. Special thanks to Angelo Loukakis and Pamela Freeman for their personal and professional advice and support.

  Published in 2016

  by Walker Books Australia Pty Ltd

  Locked Bag 22, Newtown

  NSW 2042 Australia

  www.walkerbooks.com.au

  This ebook edition published in 2016

  The moral rights of the anthologist and contributors have been asserted.

  Anthology and foreword © 2016 Judith Ridge

  Individual Essays © 2016 individual contributors

  Cover Illustration © 2016 Sarah Wilkins

  All rights reserved. No part of this publication may be reproduced, stored in a retrieval system, or transmitted in any form or by any means – electronic, mechanical, photocopying, recording or otherwise – without the prior written permission of the publisher.

  National Library of Australia Cataloguing-in-Publication entry:

  The book that made me / edited by Judith Ridge.

  For young adults.

  Subjects: Anthologies.

  Authors – Australia – Biography.

  Influence (Literary, artistic, etc.)

  Short stories, Australian.

  Australian poetry.

  Australian literature.

  Other Creators/Contributors: Ridge, Judith, editor.

  A820.80994

  ISBN: 978-1-925126-89-1 (ePub/mobi)

  ISBN: 978-1-925126-88-4 (ePDF)

  Credits

  “A Feverish Desire to Possess” text © 2016 Randa Abdel-Fattah; “Twelve Reasons” text © 2016 Markus Zusak; “A Short Leap” text © 2016 Cathy Cassidy; “What Happens Next?” text © 2016 Will Kostakis; “The Great Sense of Unease” text © 2016 Mandy Hager, quote on page 46 from Julius Caesar by William Shakespeare, quote on page 47 from Why I Write by George Orwell, first published in 1947, quote on pages 48/49 from Nineteen Eighty-four by George Orwell, first published in 1949; “Hooked (and a Bit Unsettled)” text © 2012 Shaun Tan, originally published in 2012 on the blog: About Dinner: A Love Story, reproduced by kind permission; cartoons by Shaun Tan on pages 15,
16, 23, 27, 33, 41, 50, 66, 73, 83, 95, 103, 111, 132, 143, 151, 159, 167, 173, 181, 195, 203, 210, 233 and 234 were originally created for and appeared on the National Year of Reading 2012 website. We thank the National Year of Reading library founder partners for their permission to use Shaun’s comics in this book. Read more about the Love2Read campaign at http://www.love2read.org.au/; “Thwack!” text © 2016 Fiona Wood, quotes on pages 60, 61, 62, 63 & 65 from Anne of Green Gables by LM Montgomery, first published in 1908; “Becoming Human” text © 2016 Bernard Beckett; “Looking Where I’m Standing” text © 2016 Felicity Castagna, photograph on page 75 © Bill Reda, reproduced with kind permission; “This World is More Than What Can Be Seen” text © 2016 Ambelin Kwaymullina; “What the Doctor Recommended” text and illustration © 2016 Queenie Chan; “Of Magic and Memory” text © 2016 Kate Constable; “The Big Scooby-Doo Reveal” text © 2016 Rachael Craw; “Sweet Dreams and Social Fails” text © 2016 Simmone Howell; “Every Disgusting Detail” text © 2016 Benjamin Law; “Challenging the Machinations of Racism” text © 2016 Jared Thomas; “Invested with Enchantment” text © 2016 Alison Croggon; “It Looks Like a Comic” text © 2016 Mal Peet; “My First Reader” text © 2016 Ursula Dubosarsky; “In Folded Arms” text © 2016 Cath Crowley; extracts from Zigzag Street by Nick Earls copyright © Nick Earls 1996. Reprinted by permission of Penguin Random House Australia Pty Limited & By Arrangement with the Licensor, Nick Earls, c/- Curtis Brown (Aust) Pty Ltd; “What Would Edith Do?” text © 2016 Emily Maguire, extracts from Grand Days by Frank Moorhouse Copyright © Frank Moorhouse 2000 Reprinted by permission of Random House Australia Pty Ltd; “Putting the World to Rights” text © 2016 Catherine Mayo; “Beyond the Influence” text © 2016 Ted Dawe, quote on page 170 from The Silent Places by Stewart Edward White, first published 1904; “A Sense of Resolution” text © 2016 Simon French; “Only White People Lived in Books” text © 2016 Catherine Johnson, extract from “The Nutcracker and the Sugar-Tongs” on page 185, first published in Nonsense Songs, Stories, Botany, and Alphabets by Edward Lear in 1871; “Set My Senses Alight” text © 2016 Sue Lawson; “Happy Endings” text © 2016 Brigid Lowry; “You’ll Go Blind: A Cautionary Tale about the Power of Reading” text © 2016 Julia Lawrinson; “Ingenious Decisions” text © 2016 Sue McPherson; “James Remembering” text © 2016 James Roy, extract from Josh by Ivan Southall on page 224 has been reproduced with permission by University of Queensland Press; “Seeing Red” text © 2016 Jaclyn Moriarty.

 

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