Title Night of the muttonbirds / Mary Small ; illustrated by Robert Ingpen

Published Sydney : Methuen Australia, 1981

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Description 71 pages : color illustrations ; 26 cm Summary A young boy must choose between tradition and his growing reluctance to kill when he returns to his Cape Barren Island home from boarding school, just in time for the annual "birding" which is vital to the island's economy Notes Children's stories in English. Australian writers, 1945-. Texts (ANB/PRECIS SIN 037024x) Revised entry Event 1981 Audience For children Subject Birds -- Conservation -- Juvenile fiction. Birds -- Australia -- Juvenile fiction. Children's stories. Conservation of natural resources -- Juvenile fiction. Fowling -- Juvenile fiction. Hunting -- Religious aspects -- Juvenile fiction. Shearwaters -- Juvenile fiction. Shearwaters -- Fiction. Wildlife conservation -- Fiction. SUBJECT Cape Barren Island (Tas.) http://id.loc.gov/authorities/subjects/sh2002005649 -- Fiction. http://id.loc.gov/authorities/subjects/sh99001562 Genre/Form Fiction. Author Ingpen, Robert, 1936- ISBN 0454002297

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