Volume two of a reference work listing all children's books by Australians. Thsi volume covers the period from 1973 to 1988. Entries provide physical descriptions, dates, publishers, illustrations, awards received and, in some cases, remarks on the content. Entries are arrnaged by author. Title and illustrator indexes are included

Exhaustive bibliography listing 11,560 fiction, poetry, drama and non-fiction monographs by 3828 Australian women. Includes the first book published by a woman (in 1795) up to and including some 1991 titles, and an author checklist by genres. The author has produced two previous bibliographic guides to Australian women's writing.

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