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Volume 37 Nº 2: July 2001 Children's Book Week in Western AustraliaA Feast of BooksMargaret ClementsA talk by Margaret Clements broadcast on the ABC, October 1953 Around about this time every year the Town Hall assumes, for children, an entirely new character. This metamorphosis begins when its rather austere interior becomes a cross between a museum and a zoo - I mean of course, the Wild Life show. Here, hundreds of fascinated children gazed with wonder at the exhibits, alive and dead, which have been collected together to enable them to know something of Australian wildlife which would otherwise be a closed book to many of them. This year, the Tree Climbing Fish stole the show, and were obliging enough to demonstrate their prowess at all times of the day, seemingly heedless of their audience... |
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