The following is a bibliography
of fiction for children and young adults, published in English
or translated into English, dealing substantially with Antarctic material.
While we have included some picture books, we have made no attempt
to be exhaustive, given the size of this genre.
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Alborough, Jez. Cuddly Dudley.
1993. London: Walker, 1994.
Anderson, E. The Ice-Bound Treasure. 1961. Minneapolis: T.S. Denison, 1968.
Andrew, Margaret. Mac the Macaroni:
The Penguin Who Liked to Dance. London: Macdonald, 1988.
---. Flight to Antarctica. Cambridge:
Burlington, 1985.
Appleton, V. Tom Swift and his Atomic
Earth Blaster. New York: Grosset and Dunlop, 1954.
Armstrong, R. The Secret Sea.
New York: David McKay, 1966.
Atwater, R. and F. Atwater. Mr Popper's
Penguins. 1938. New York: Dell, 1978.
Banks, D. Iceberg. London: Doctor
Who, 1993.
Beck, Christopher. The People of
the Chasm. London: C. Arthur Pearson, 1923.
Bledsoe, Lucy. The Antarctic Scoop. New York: Holiday House 2003.
Bonehill, Ralph. Lost in the Land of Ice. New York: Grossett & Dunlap, [c. 1900].
Brenner, B. Walt Disney's The Penguin
that Hated the Cold. New York: Random House, 1973.
Brown, Benjamin and Helen J Taylor.
The Penguin Who Wanted to Fly. 1993. Christchurch: Visitor
Centre, International Antarctic Centre, 1999.
Brunner, H. Survivors! 1987.
London: MacMillan Children's, 1989.
Clark, Captain Charles. An Antarctic
Queen. London: Frederick Warne, c. 1902.
Colson, H. and C. Farrell.
Jack Swift and His Rocket Ship. Racine. WI: Whitman, 1934.
Davis, G. Doctor Who and the Tenth
Planet. London: W.H. Allen, 1985.
Dee, S. Tarin of the Ice. Melbourne:
Nelson Publishers/Australian Broadcasting Commission, 1987.
Evans, Edward
R.G.R. The Mystery of "The Polar Star". London:
Partridge, 1927. [Evans
was Robert Falcon Scott's second-in-command.]
Fatio, L. Hector and Christina.
New York: McGraw-Hill, 1977.
---. Hector Penguin. New York: McGraw-Hill, 1973.
Faulkner, Keith and Jonathan Lambert.
The Puzzled Penguin. 1998. Sydney: Koala, 1999. [The
penguin in this pop-up book wanders about the Arctic ice, meeting
polar bears and walruses en route. Perhaps this is why it
is puzzled?]
Finnigan, Mathew, et al. Something
About this Place. Christchurch: St Bede's College, 2004. [The
authors were four students who in 2002 were recipients of Antarctica
New Zealand's Secondary Schools Education in Antarctica Initiative.]
Freeman, D. Penguin, of All People.
New York: Viking, 1971.
Geraghty, Paul. Solo. 1995.
London: Random House, 1998.
Glimmerveen, U. A Tale of Antarctica.
Auckland: Ashton Scholastic, 1990.
Grace, Tom. Twisted Web. New York: Pocket, 2003.
Hodder-Williams, John E. [1913?]
Like English Gentlemen. London: Hodder and Stoughton, 1915. [Originally
published anonymously c.1913, this book was created to raise funds
for the provision of Peter Scott and the other relatives and dependants
of Captain Scott and his comrades. Although this book has been attributed
to J.M. Barrie, Scott Polar Research Institute identifies the author
as John Ernest Hodder-Williams. Also published Auckland: Whitcomb
and Tombs, [c.1935].]
Holland, Joyce. Bessie, the Messy
Penguin. Minneapolis: T.S. Denison, 1967.
Hooper, Meredith. The Pole-Seekers.
London: Hodder Children's, 2000.
---. Tom Crean's Rabbit. London: Francis
Lincoln, 1998. [Based on
the adventures of a sea-faring rabbit owned by Tom Crean, a member
of Scott's Terra Nova Expedition.]
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Johns, Captain William Earl. Biggles
Breaks the Silence. London: Hodder and Stoughton, 1949. [Republished
in 1970 as Biggles in the Antarctic. A more recent edition was published by Severn House in Sutton (Surry)
in 1995. Biggles also goes south, but only as
far as Kerguelen Island, in Biggles' Second Case (London:
Hodder and Stoughton, 1948).]
Johnson, Seddon. South Pole Sabotage. Toronto: Bantam, 1989.
Kingston, William H.G. At the South
Pole; or, the Adventures of Richard Pengelly, Mariner. London,
New York: Cassell, Setter and Galpin, 1870.
Knox, David. Antarcticaid. North Blackburn, Victoria: Collins Dove, 1993. [This is a play for children.]
L'Engle, M. Troubling a Star. New York: Farrar Straus and Giroux, 1994.
Lenthall, P.R. Carlotta and the
Scientist. Chapel Hill: Lollipop Power, 1973.
Lerangis, Peter. Antarctica: Escape
From Disaster. New York: Scholastic, 2000.
---. Antarctica: Journey to the Pole.
New York: Scholastic, 2000.
McCaughrean, Geraldine. The White Darkness. Oxford: Oxford UP, 2005.
Mackie, John. The Great Antarctic:
A Record of Strange Adventures. London: Jarrold and Sons,
[c.1913].
Mahy, Margaret. The Riddle of the
Frozen Phantom. London: HarperCollins, 2001.
Marriott, Janice. Thor’s Tale: Endurance and Adventure in the Southern Ocean. Auckland: HarperCollins, 2006.
Marshall, James Vance. My Boy John
That Went To Sea. Great Neck, NY: Morrow, 1967.
Miller, George, with Kathryn Otoshi. Happy Feet: The Movie Storybook. New York: Price Stern Sloan, 2006; Rowville, Victoria: Funtastic, 2006. [This is one of the many published tie-ins to the animated feature film Happy Feet.]
Nicholson, Joyce. Yap
the Penguin. Sydney: Lansdowne, 1967.
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Pfister, Marcus. Penguin Pete's
New Friends. Trans. Andrea Bell. Gossau Zürich: Nord-Süd,
1997.
Phillips, K. The Adventures of Salik
the Husky. Canberra: Curriculum Development Centre, 1986.
Rutley, C. Bernard. The Cave of
Winds. London: Frederick Warne, 1947.
Scholes, K. The Blue Chameleon.
Melbourne: Hill of Content, 1989.
Sharp, M. Miss Bianca in the Antarctic.
Boston: Little, Brown, 1971.
Sierra, Judy, et al. Antarctic Antics:
A Book of Penguin Poems. San Diego: Harcourt Brace, 1998.
Southall, Ivan. Simon Black in the
Antarctic. Sydney: Angus and Robertson, 1956.
Stables, G. In the Great White Land:
A Tale of the Antarctic Ocean. London: Blackie and Sons, 1903.
Stine, R.L. Goosebumps #47: The
Legend of the Lost Legend. New York: Scholastic, 1996.
Strong, C.S. South Pole Husky. New
York: Longmans, Green, 1950.
Thomson, Kenneth Graham. People
of the South Pole. London: Lutterworth, 1941.
Villiers, Alan J. Whalers of the
Midnight Sun: A Story of Modern Whaling in the Antarctic. London:
Geoffrey Bless, 1934. [Republished
Sydney: Angus and Robertson, 1949. This book won the Australian
Book Council's Children's Book of the Year in 1950.]
Walton, B. Harpoon Gunner. New
York: Thomas Y. Crowell, 1968.
Weare, Tim. I'm a Little Penguin.
London: Buster, 2002. [The
eponymous penguin is in fact a finger puppet, packaged within the
pages of the book.]
Weiss, L. Funny Feet. New York:
Franklin Watts, 1978.
Wiggins, A.R. Knights of the Blizzard.
London: Salvationist, 1949.
Wollheim, D.A. Mike Mars, South
Pole Spaceman. 1962. New York: Paperback Library, 1966.
Wood, A. Little Penguin's Tale.
San Diego: Harcourt Brace, 1989.
Yaxley, Melissa and Christine Forsyth.
Rocky the Rockhopper Penguin. Canberra: Curriculum Development
Centre, 1986.
Zalben, J. Penny and the Captain.
Cleveland: William Collins, 1978.
Bibliography compiled
as part of project undertaken by Dr
Elizabeth Leane, School
of English, Journalism and European Languages, University of Tasmania.
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