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Ursula Dubosarsky

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Ursula Dubosarsky is an award-winning author of numerous books for children and young adults. About The Golden Day, her first book with Candlewick Press, she says, "The little girls watch, wonder, respond, change, and grow — and then their childhood is gone, forever. This element of the story, I suppose, is at least partly autobiographical. But, as I say — all of our teachers come home safe and sound in the end." Ursula Dubosarsky lives in Australia. ...more

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Average rating: 3.64 · 5,958 ratings · 1,164 reviews · 104 distinct works • Similar authors

	The Golden Day 3.47 avg rating — 1,330 ratings — published 2011 — 24 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	The Terrible Plop: A Picture Book by Ursula Dubosarsky (Goodreads Author), Andrew Joyner (Illustrator) really liked it 4.00 avg rating — 808 ratings — published 2009 — 10 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	The Word Snoop: A Wild and Witty Tour of the English Language! by Ursula Dubosarsky (Goodreads Author), Tohby Riddle (Illustrator) 4.06 avg rating — 690 ratings — published 2007 — 12 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	The Red Shoe 3.25 avg rating — 533 ratings — published 2006 — 11 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	The Blue Cat 3.39 avg rating — 203 ratings — published 2017 — 5 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Brindabella by Ursula Dubosarsky (Goodreads Author), Andrew Joyner (Illustrator ) 3.89 avg rating — 154 ratings — published 2018 — 5 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	The Return of the Word Spy: A Funny and Fantastic Voyage into Language, Grammar and Beyond by Ursula Dubosarsky (Goodreads Author), Tohby Riddle (Illustrator) 4.19 avg rating — 139 ratings — published 2010 — 4 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Too Many Elephants in this House by Ursula Dubosarsky (Goodreads Author), Andrew Joyner (Illustrator) 3.83 avg rating — 114 ratings — published 2012 — 4 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	The Game of the Goose 3.48 avg rating — 101 ratings — published 2000 — 13 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Abyssinia 3.35 avg rating — 96 ratings — published 2003 — 14 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars

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Series by Ursula Dubosarsky

Aussie Nibbles (47 books)
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The Cryptic Casebook of Coco Carlomagno and Alberta (6 books)
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Isador Brown (4 books)
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The Daisy chain, or Aspirations

by Charlotte Mary Yonge

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The Annotated Snark

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Other People's Houses

by Lore Segal

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Ursula Dubosarsky answered Scott Walker's question: Hi Ursula. I rediscovered your books after reading Brindabella with my Grade 4/5 class a few years ago. I'd read, and loved, your two Word Spy books previously and when I red The Blue Cat I just had to get my hands on everything you've written. I love the believable yet somewhat obscure characters you come up with. I still have a few to read but was wondering if you had anything in the pipeline? Dear Scott, my apologies for the delay in replying - thanks so much for writing and I'm very happy to hear about your class reading "Brindabella" (perhaps my favourite of my novels!) I'm trying to write another novel at the moment - going round in ci See Full Answer
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“Today, girls,' said Miss Renshaw, 'we shall go out into the beautiful Gardens and think about death.”
― Ursula Dubosarsky, The Golden Day

tags: death, schoolgirls, teachers

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“And we shall all be changed in the twinkling of an eye.”
― Ursula Dubosarsky, The Golden Day

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“Cubby kept looking for Miss Renshaw--it was like waiting for the bus, constantly thinking that each little sound was Miss Renshaw and Morgan coming back,”
― Ursula Dubosarsky

tags: clever

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“Today, girls,' said Miss Renshaw, 'we shall go out into the beautiful Gardens and think about death.”
― Ursula Dubosarsky, The Golden Day

tags: death, schoolgirls, teachers

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“If you only read the books that everyone else is reading, you can only think what everyone else is thinking.”
― Haruki Murakami, Norwegian Wood

tags: books, thought

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“The best stories never end - they keep on going, inside you.”
― Ursula Dubosarsky, The March of the Ants

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May 13, 2013 04:09AM

Thanks for your lovely message Genie - lovers of words AND guinea pigs are destined to be friends!

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message 1: by Eugenia (Genie In A Book)

May 13, 2013 03:54AM

Dear Ursula,
Thank you so much for accepting my friend request
I have thoroughly enjoyed all your novels that I have read so far (especially The Word Spy books) and look forward to reading more of your work.

Best wishes,
Genie

PS. I love guinea pigs too (as you can see from my dp) and have 2 of my own :)

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