The Muddle-Headed Wombat is a fictional wombat featured in the radio serials and later in the children's books of the same name written by Australian...
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Ruth Park (category Members of the Order of Australia)
works are the novels The Harp in the South (1948) and Playing Beatie Bow (1980), and the children's radio serial The Muddle-Headed Wombat (1951–1970)...
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Argonauts Club (redirect from The Children's Hour (Australian radio))
Collins in the title role. When he died, in 1951, Ruth changed the title to The Muddle-Headed Wombat, with Leonard Teale the first to play the part. When...
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children's books. She is best known for her illustrations for The Muddle-Headed Wombat by Ruth Park. Noela Margaret Grace Young was born in Sydney on...
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Leonard Teale (category Officers of the Order of Australia)
co-compère of the radio ABC Children's Session, as "Chris" from 1951 to 1954 (also playing the title role in its Muddle-Headed Wombat serial), his involvement...
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1970 in literature (category Years of the 20th century in literature)
Muddle-Headed Wombat in the Springtime The Muddle-Headed Wombat on the River Bill Peet The Whingdingdilly The Wump World Maurice Sendak – In the Night Kitchen...
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Angus & Robertson (section The Sydney Book Club)
publishing reprints including Annie Rentoul's The Lady of the Blue Beads and The Muddle-Headed Wombat on Clean-Up Day by Ruth Park. To better control...
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serial The Muddle-Headed Wombat. He was well known for his role in the film Sunday Too Far Away, his ongoing role in the Australian TV series The Restless...
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List of fictional marsupials (category Fictional wombats)
all marsupials including opossums, marsupial moles, bandicoots, bilbies, wombats, koalas, kangaroos, wallaroos, wallabies and other prehistoric mammals...
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Snugglepot and Cuddlepie (redirect from The Adventures of Snugglepot & Cuddlepie and Little Ragged Blossom)
pudding); (Muddle-headed wombat). Note: Title from slip case. "National Museum of Australia - Tibby's Leaf, by Ursula Dubosarsky". Archived from the original...
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1966 in literature (category Years of the 20th century in literature)
Charlotte and the Golden Canary Clive King – The 22 Letters Ruth Park The Muddle-Headed Wombat at School The Muddle-Headed Wombat in the Snow Bill Peet...
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Ida Elizabeth Osbourne (category Australian Members of the Order of the British Empire)
dramatised series The Wide-Awake Bunyip, and played "Mouse" to Joe's Bunyip. This was later developed by Ruth Park into The Muddle-Headed Wombat radio series...
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Hill Ruth Park The Muddle-Headed Wombat in the Springtime The Muddle-Headed Wombat on the River Joan Phipson – The Haunted House Ivan Southall Bread...
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1965 in literature (category Years of the 20th century in literature)
Tivisoc și Tivismoc Ruth Park – The Muddle-Headed Wombat in the Treetops Bill Peet Chester the Worldly Pig Kermit the Hermit John Rowe Townsend – Widdershins...
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1964 in literature (category Years of the 20th century in literature)
Jean Merrill – The Pushcart War Ruth Park – The Muddle-Headed Wombat on Holiday Bill Peet Ella Randy's Dandy Lions Shel Silverstein – The Giving Tree Miriam...
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Fatchen – The River Kings Elyne Mitchell – Silver Brumby Kingdom Ruth Park The Muddle-Headed Wombat at School The Muddle-Headed Wombat in the Snow Joan...
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1975 in literature (category Wikipedia articles incorporating a citation from the ODNB)
Ibbotson – The Great Ghost Rescue Ronald McCuaig – Fresi Fantastika (Norwegian translation of Gangles) Ruth Park – The Muddle-Headed Wombat and the Invention...
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1981 in literature (category Years of the 20th century in literature)
Austin) - Scarlet Dream Uri Orlev – The Island on Bird Street (האי ברחוב הציפורים) Ruth Park – The Muddle-Headed Wombat is Very Bad Bill Peet – Encore for...
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1982 in literature (category Wikipedia articles incorporating a citation from the ODNB)
Mountain Margaret Mahy – The Haunting Michael Morpurgo – War Horse Ruth Park – The Muddle-Headed Wombat Stays at Home Bill Peet – The Luckiest One of All Claude...
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Peter Finch (category Actors from the Royal Borough of Kensington and Chelsea)
mentor throughout 1939 and 1940. He was "Chris" in the Children's Session and the first Muddle-Headed Wombat. He later starred with Neva Carr Glyn in an enormously...
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1973 in literature (category Wikipedia articles incorporating a citation from the ODNB)
– The Ghost of Thomas Kempe Ruth Manning-Sanders – A Book of Ogres and Trolls Ruth Park – The Muddle-Headed Wombat and the Bush Band Bill Peet – The Spooky...
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1969 in literature (category Years of the 20th century in literature)
Park – The Muddle-Headed Wombat on a Rainy Day Gary Paulsen – Mr. Tucket (first in Mr. Tucket series) Bill Peet – Fly Homer Fly Barbara Sleigh – The Snowball...
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approach to the running of the Children's Session, including persuading Ruth Park to write him a part, "Tabby Cat", in the Muddle-Headed Wombat serial. He...
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1962 in literature (category Years of the 20th century in literature)
Keeps Eloise Jarvis McGraw – The Golden Goblet Ruth Park – The Muddle-Headed Wombat Bill Peet – Smokey Otfried Preußler – The Robber Hotzenplotz Barbara...
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Park The Muddle-Headed Wombat in the Treetops Ring for the Sorcerer Joan Phipson – Birkin Ivan Southall – Ash Road Eleanor Spence – The Year of the Currawong...
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August 1917 (category Months in the 1910s)
Harp in the South and Playing Beatie Bow, and the popular radio and books series of The Muddle-Headed Wombat, in Auckland (d. 2010) Died: Alfred Kidd, New...
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film, 1988) A Vicious Circle, (Animated short film, 1988) The muddle-headed/Hopeless Wombat (Animated short film, 1991) As Supervising animator / Character...
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David Lake — The Man Who Loved Morlocks Keith Taylor — Bard George Turner — Vaneglory Jan Ormerod — Sunshine Ruth Park — The Muddle-Headed Wombat is Very Bad...
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by Ruth Park as The Muddle-Headed Wombat with first Leonard Thiele then John Ewart in the title role and filling the vacancy in the Argonauts Club team...
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Chauncy – High and Haunted Island Ruth Park Airlift for Grandee The Muddle-Headed Wombat on Holiday Bruce Dawe – "How to Go On Not Looking" A. D. Hope –...
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