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Author Fox, Mem, 1946- author

Title Wilfrid Gordon McDonald Partridge / written by Mem Fox ; illustrated by Julie Vivas
Published Adelaide : Omnibus Books, 1989
©1984

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 MELB CRC  428.6 Ddecke Fox/Wgm HANGING  AVAILABLE
Description 1 volume (unpaged) : colour illustrations ; 42 cm
Series Double deckers
Double deckers
Summary A small boy, Wilfrid Gordon McDonald Partridge, knows and likes all of the old folks in the home next door, but his favorite is Miss Nancy Alison Delacourt Cooper. She has four names, too. Hearing that she has lost her memory, he asks the old folks what a memory is, ponders the answers, then gathers up memories of his own to give her. In handling Wilfrid's memories, Nancy finds and shares her own
Analysis Australian
Notes Previously published: Adelaide : Omnibus Books, 1984
Audience For 4-6 year old children
Notes Originally published Adelaide : Omnibus Books, 1984
Children's Book of the Year Award: Picture Book, 1985 shortlist
Subject Aging -- Juvenile fiction.
Big books.
Children and older people -- Juvenile fiction.
Children and older people -- Juvenile literature.
Children's literature.
Children's stories, Australian.
Friendship -- Juvenile fiction.
Geriatrics -- Juvenile fiction.
Helping behavior in children -- Juvenile fiction.
Memory -- Juvenile fiction.
Names, Personal -- Juvenile fiction.
Old age homes -- Juvenile fiction.
Old age -- Juvenile fiction.
Older people -- Juvenile fiction.
Readers (Primary)
Readers (Primary) -- Memory
Readers (Primary) -- Last years.
Reading (Primary)
Recollection (Psychology) -- Juvenile fiction.
Memory -- Fiction.
Old age -- Fiction.
Genre/Form Picture books.
Fiction.
Author Vivas, Julie, 1947- illustrator
ISBN 186291012X (large edition : paperback)