Playing Beatie Bow by Ruth Park - ISBN: 9781761621277
Hardcover
Time travel game becomes terrifying reality for Abigail.
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Playing Beatie Bow

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  • Hardcover

    208 pages

  • Release Date

    8 September 2026

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Summary

The captivating tale of time travel and adventure as a beautiful clothbound hardback, part of the Penguin Modern Australian Classics series.

‘It’s Beatie Bow - risen from the dead!’

The game is called Beatie Bow and the children play it for the thrill of scaring themselves. But when Abigail is drawn in, the game is quickly transformed into an extraordinary, sometimes horrifying adventure as she finds herself transported to a place that is foreign yet strangely familiar …

Book Details

ISBN-13:9781761621277
ISBN-10:1761621270
Author:Ruth Park
Publisher:Penguin Random House Australia
Imprint:Penguin Random House Australia
Format:Hardcover
Number of Pages:208
Release Date:8 September 2026
Dimensions:1mm x 1mm x 1mm
About The Author

Ruth Park

Born in New Zealand, Ruth Park came to Australia in 1942 to continue her career as a journalist. She married the writer D’Arcy Niland and travelled with him through the north-west of New South Wales before settling in Sydney where she became a full-time writer.

She has written more than fifty books, and her many awards include:

  • The prestigious Miles Franklin Award for Swords and Crowns and Rings
  • The Australian Children’s Book of the Year Award and the Boston Globe-Horn Book Award (USA) for Playing Beatie Bow
  • The Age Book of the Year Award for A Fence Around the Cuckoo

She was made a Member of the Order of Australia in 1987 and in 1994 was awarded an Honorary Doctor of Letters from the University of New South Wales. Ruth Park passed away in December 2010.

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