Title: The Nargun and the Stars

Title: The Nargun and the Stars Title Record # 13793
Author: Patricia Wrightson
Date: 1973-00-00
Type: NOVEL [juvenile]
Series: Nargun / Wirrun milieu
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Language: English

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Synopsis: A thematic sequel to 1972 An Older Kind of Magic (see) "The Potkoorok, Turongs and Nyols — those trick-playing spirits from aboriginal lore who helped save Sydney's Botanical Gardens from a parking lot developer in An Older Kind of Magic [reviewed 1972] are less cooperative when the human hero's enemy is an ancient rocklike monster who shares the mythological creatures' displeasure with the crew from town that has begun to clear the ridge at Wongadilla." --Kirkus Reviews, March 1974 (above)

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Publications

Title	Date	Author/Editor	Publisher/Pub. Series	ISBN/Catalog ID	Price	Pages	Format	Type	Cover Artist
The Nargun and the Stars	1973-00-00	Patricia Wrightson	Hutchinson (Australia)	0-09-117690-5	A$^?A$: Australian dollar	158	hc^?Hardcover. Used for all hardbacks of any size.	novel	Joan Saint
The Nargun and the Stars	1973-00-00	Patricia Wrightson	Hutchinson	0-09-117690-5	£1.80^?£: UK pound	158	hc^?Hardcover. Used for all hardbacks of any size.	novel	Joan Saint
The Nargun and the Stars	1974-03-20	Patricia Wrightson	Margaret K. McElderry / Atheneum	0-689-30432-3	$5.50^?$: US dollar	184	hc^?Hardcover. Used for all hardbacks of any size.	novel
The Nargun and the Stars	1975-00-00	Patricia Wrightson	Puffin	0-14-030780-X	£0.40^?£: UK pound	160	pb^?Paperback. Typically 7" by 4.25" (18 cm by 11 cm) or smaller, though trimming errors can cause them to sometimes be slightly (less than 1/4 extra inch) taller or wider/deeper.	novel	Jack Newnham
The Nargun and the Stars	1985-00-00	Patricia Wrightson	Hutchinson	0-09-117690-5	£5.95^?£: UK pound	158	hc^?Hardcover. Used for all hardbacks of any size.	novel	Joan Saint
The Nargun and the Stars	1986-08-00	Patricia Wrightson	Margaret K. McElderry Books	0-689-50403-9	$10.95^?$: US dollar	184	hc^?Hardcover. Used for all hardbacks of any size.	novel
The Nargun and the Stars	1988-00-00	Patricia Wrightson	Century Hutchinson Australia	0-09-157440-4	A$^?A$: Australian dollar	142	hc^?Hardcover. Used for all hardbacks of any size.	novel	Robert Ingpen
The Nargun and the Stars	1988-05-00	Patricia Wrightson	Puffin	0-14-030780-X		168	pb^?Paperback. Typically 7" by 4.25" (18 cm by 11 cm) or smaller, though trimming errors can cause them to sometimes be slightly (less than 1/4 extra inch) taller or wider/deeper.	novel
The Nargun and the Stars	1996-07-00	Patricia Wrightson	Hutchinson	0-09-157440-4	£9.99^?£: UK pound	158	hc^?Hardcover. Used for all hardbacks of any size.	novel	Mark Robertson
The Nargun and the Stars	2008-05-00	Patricia Wrightson	University of Queensland Press (UQP Children's Classics)	978-0-7022-3683-9	A$19.95^?A$: Australian dollar	187	tp^?Trade paperback. Any softcover book which is at least 7.25" (or 19 cm) tall, or at least 4.5" (11.5 cm) wide/deep.	novel	Peter Evans
The Nargun and the Stars	2009-05-13	Patricia Wrightson	Catnip	978-1-84647-076-9	£5.99^?£: UK pound	192	tp^?Trade paperback. Any softcover book which is at least 7.25" (or 19 cm) tall, or at least 4.5" (11.5 cm) wide/deep.	novel

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Reviews

Review by Leslie Bloom (1974) in Luna Monthly, #56, November 1974