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Emily rodda is the author of the hugely successful deltora quest series, with over two million copies in print. Aimed at children aged 48 years, their book grandma forgets has been nominated as the picture book of the year 2018 by childrens book council of australia. Nov 08, 2002 in the 1960s, even factors like class struggle were included in children s stories. The story explores what might have happened when europeans colonised land already inhabited by aboriginal people. We have been named australian publisher of the year a record times. The assailants first known attack occurred in the middle of the night on august 22, 1987, when he broke into a familys home.
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