Way back then, before we were ten
Subtitle: New Zealand writers and childhood
By: compiled and edited by Graeme Lay
Publisher: David Ling Pub.
Published: 2009
Place of publication: Auckland, N.Z
Language: eng
Number of pages: 208
ISBN-13: 9781877378317
Other titles: Way back then, before we were 10
Description: "In this anthology twenty-six of New Zealand's most accomplished writers recall significant events in their lives when they were under the age of ten, or create fictional narratives in which a child or children are placed at the centre of events"--P. 7.
Notes: Short stories, extracts from novels and autobiographies, and autobiographical essays.
Table of contents: title: Me and the artists / Bernard Brown; title: No sense of danger / Christine Cole Catley; title: (from) Long hot summer / Lauris Edmond; title: My cousins who could eat cooked turnips / Janet Frame; title: (from) Beginnings / Maurice Gee; title: Peas / Suzanne Gee; title: Flies / Patricia Grace; title: In Europe, aged five / Charlotte Grimshaw; title: 1967 / Karyn Hay; title: In search of the emerald city / Witi Ihimaera; title: (from) Under the bridge and over the moon / Kevin Ireland; title: (from) Street without a name / Kapka Kassabova; title: (from) At the end of Darwin Road / Fiona Kidman; title: (from) Pomare / Elizabeth Knox; title: (from) The kindness of strangers / Shonagh Koea; title: Uncle Trev and the travelling asparagus bed / Jack Lasenby; title: Ian / Graeme Lay; title: Just off Celestial Street / Brigid Lowry; title: To kill a mutton flap / Marisa Maepu; title: (from) Prelude / Katherine Mansfield; title: The Italy star / Sue Orr; title: Between two worlds / Toni Quinlan; title: An attempt at an explanation / Frank Sargeson; title: (from) One of Ben's / Maurice Shadbolt; title: (from) Auto da Fay / Fay Weldon; title: (from) Long loop home / Peter Wells.