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Cover artist Margaret Horder Publication date 1955 Pages 153pp Originally published 1955 Genre Children's literature Country Australia | 4/5 Goodreads Media type Print Followed by The Bunyip Hole Publisher Angus & Robertson | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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The Crooked Snake (1955) is the first novel by Australian author Patricia Wrightson. The book was illustrated by Margaret Horder. It won the Children's Book of the Year Award: Older Readers in 1956.
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Plot outline
A gang of children form a secret society to protect a nearby national park from vandals. They record the bush with a camera and write to the Ministry of Conservation requesting the park be designated a flora and fauna sanctuary.
Critical reception
In a survey of Australian children's books dealing with the Australian bush, Susan Sheridan and Emma Maguire noted: "In their preferred method of research, and in their dealings with the bureaucracy, these children mark out a specifically modern, as well as Australian, mode of the Enid Blyton or Arthur Ransome adventure story in a natural setting."