Judith clarke biography

In Memoriam

Rosemary Thomas –

After graduating from Teacher’s College in the ’s she has been a member of the Children’s Book Council of Australia, both in Victoria and the ACT. She was passionate about the importance of reading to children and is a positive and visible role model who reads voraciously. She was diligent and reliable and participated in all aspects of the ACT Branch including being a long-serving member of the Branch Committee, organising the annual Christmas Book Appeal and judges workshops. In Rosemary was the ACT Branch recipient of the Laurie Copping Award for her significant and sustained contribution to the ACT in the field of children’s literature. Nationally, Rosemary was a director of the National board from and has been a Fiction Judge, an Awards Co-ordinator and was an energetic member of the National Conference Committee. Rosemary promoted the CBCA wherever she could and has been responsible for attracting new members to the ACT Branch.

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Arone Raymond Meeks –

As a Kuku Midigi man, Arone Meeks grew up in Far North Queensland. He was a founding member of the Boomalli Aboriginal Artists Co-operative. His knowledge of the bush and it

Books by Judith Holmes Clarke

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My Lovely Frankie

May 11,
A surprisingly underwhelming and occasionally cloying young adult novel from the acclaimed Australian writer, Judith Clarke, My Lovely Frankie looks back on retired priest Tom Rowland’s teenage years and first months at St. Finbar’s, a Catholic seminary by the sea. There he met and fell in love with the beautiful, radiant Frankie (Francis Maguire). Frankie had come to the seminary from a large, poor, and rigidly devout Catholic family in Western Australia. His zealous father had beaten him mercilessly for three days straight after catching him with a neighbour girl, known to consort with any boy with functioning male parts. Frankie, we are told, has a deep and abiding love of God and an improbably naïve, childlike belief in Heaven, with a capital H. He is kindness personified and responds rapturously to the beauties of nature. He apparently decided to train as a priest in expiation for offending God and the saints, hoping that if he offered up his life in this way he’d gain his father's love.

At St. Finbar’s, Frankie attracts more than Tom’s attention. He catches the eye of Etta, a bizarre-looking, clever, underage and undersized prefect who lov

Judith Clarke () Biography

Biographical and Critical Sources

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Booklist, March 15, , Stephanie Zvirin, "Guffaws, Giggles, and Good Old-Fashioned Roars," p. ; August, , Stephanie Zvirin, review of Al Capsella and the Watchdogs, p. ; July, , Stephanie Zvirin, review of Al Capsella Takes a Vacation, p. ; June 1, , Frances Bradburn, review of Night Train, p. ; September 1, , Frances Bradburn, review of Wolf on the Fold, p. ; June 1, , Anne O'Malley, review of Starry Nights, p.

Bulletin of the Center for Children's Books, July-August, , p. ; May, , review of Night Train, p. ; October, , review of Wolf on the Fold, p.

Five Owls, September-October, , p. 19; May-June, , p.

Horn Book, September-October, , Joanna Rudge Long, review of Starry Nights, p.

Kirkus Reviews, June 1, , p. ; May 15, , review of Wolf on the Fold, p. ; May 15, , review of Starry Nights, p. ; April 1, , review of Kalpana's Dream, p.

Kliatt, September, , p. 6; July, , Claire Rosser, review of Wolf on the Fold, p. 7.

Magpies, March, , p. 37; May, , Jane Connolly, review of Night Train, pp. ; March, , Margot Hillel, interview with Clarke, pp. ; March, , rev


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