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Dorothy Wall is author of Identity Theory: New and Selected Poems (Blue Light Press) and Encounters with the Invisible: Unseen Illness, Controversy, and Chronic Fatigue Syndrome (Southern Methodist University Press), and coauthor of Finding Your Writer's Voice: A Guide to Creative Fiction (St. Martin's Press). Her poetry has been nominated for Best of the Net, and her poems and essays have appeared in magazines and anthologies, including Prairie Schooner, Witness, Bellevue Literary Review, Sonora Review, Cimarron Review, AMA Journal of Ethics, California Magazine, The Writer, Dos Passos Review, Nimrod, Puerto del Sol, San Francisco Chronicle and others. She has taught poetry and fiction writing at Napa Valley College, San Francisco State University, and U.C. Berkeley Extension, and works as a writing coach in Oakland.

This early work by Dorothy Wall was originally published in 1933 and we are now republishing it with a brand new introductory biography. 'Blinky Bill: The Quaint Little Australian' is a children's story about Australia's most popular mischievous koala. Dorothy Wall was born on January the 12th, 1894 in New Zealand. From a young age Wall showed great talent as an artist and at age eleven won a scholarship for her drawing skills. She is most famous for creating Blinky Bill, an anthropomorphic koala who was the central character in her books Blinky Bill: the Quaint Little Australian, Blinky Bill Grows Up, and Blinky Bill and Nutsy. In 1985 a postage stamp honouring Wall for her creation, Blinky Bill, was issued by Australia Post as part of a set commemorating children's books.

This early work by Dorothy Wall was originally published in 1933 and we are now republishing it with a brand new introductory biography. 'Blinky Bill: The Quaint Little Australian' is a children's story about Australia's most popular mischievous koala. Dorothy Wall was born on January the 12th, 1894 in New Zealand. From a young age Wall showed great talent as an artist and at age eleven won a scholarship for her drawing skills. She is most famous for creating Blinky Bill, an anthropomorphic koala who was the central character in her books Blinky Bill: the Quaint Little Australian, Blinky Bill Grows Up, and Blinky Bill and Nutsy. In 1985 a postage stamp honouring Wall for her creation, Blinky Bill, was issued by Australia Post as part of a set commemorating children's books.

V nastojaschee izdanie "Blinki Bill. Prikljuchenija neposlushnogo koaljonka" voshli tri knigi avstralijskoj pisatelnitsy i khudozhnitsy Doroti Uoll (1894-1942) o pokhozhdenijakh sumchatogo medvezhonka. Oni ponravjatsja ljubiteljam prikljuchenij, a takzhe vsem rebjatam, komu interesna unikalnaja flora i fauna Zeljonogo kontinenta. Pervaja kniga "Blinki Bill" nachinaetsja s novosti, obletevshej ves bush: v pochtennom semejstve koal po familii Bill rodilsja dolgozhdannyj malysh. On tak smeshno khlopal glazkami - blink-blink - i vygljadel takim udivljonnym, chto roditeli reshajut nazvat ego Blinki. V krjostnye emu oni berut miluju Angelinu Vallabi, kotoraja ne raz budet vyruchat Blinki iz peredrjag, v kotorye on reguljarno popadaet iz-za svoego neujomnogo ljubopytstva. Bolshinstvo koal - domosedy, dlja schastja im nuzhen serebristyj evkalipt s udobnoj vetkoj-rogatkoj da nezhnye sochnye listochki v dostatke. A vot ljuboznatelnomu Blinki na meste ne siditsja, on to i delo spuskaetsja s rodnogo dereva i ukhodit iskat prikljuchenija - k uzhasu svoej mamochki, dobrodushnoj missis Bill, neudovolstviju vorchlivoj sosedki tjotushki Granti i zavisti tikhoni Snabbi, ejo synochka. Vo vremja svoikh stranstvij Blinki zavodit druzej, uchitsja videt krasotu prirody i postigat ejo zakony. Postepenno on ponimaet, pochemu v mire zhivotnykh kto-to kogo-to est. No kak objasnit prichinu zhestokosti so storony ljudej? Etogo ne znajut ni Blinki, ni ego mama, ni ikh druzja i sosedi po bushu. Vo vtoroj knige "Blinki Bill podrastaet" Blinki, uznav, chto mama reshila otdat ego v shkolu, snova nadolgo ubegaet iz doma. Konechno, ved mir takoj ogromnyj, bush polon chudes, i Blinki ne sobiraetsja protirat nikerbokery v skuchnoj shkole missis Megpaj! On popadaet na blagotvoritelnuju jarmarku v pomosch krolikam-pogoreltsam. Zabredaet na fermu mistera Khmykinsa i ele unosit ottuda nogi. Znakomitsja s vesjolym Terri Trjasoguzkoj, mudrym misterom Filinom, predvoditelem muravjov-buldogov Bravym Bobbi, ekhidnoj Khildoj i drugimi obitateljami busha. On spasaet zajchat ot khitroj Belindy Foks, a samu lisitsu izbavljaet ot koljuchek. A v kontse oni s mamoj okazyvajutsja pojmannymi zverolovami, kotorye privozjat ikh v zoopark. V tretej knige "Blinki Bill i Natsi" Blinki i ego mama begut iz zooparka. A pomogaet im v etom Splodzh - nastojaschij dzhentlmen iz slavnogo roda gigantskikh kenguru. Oni vozvraschajutsja na svoj evkalipt, gde teper zhivjot malyshka-koala po imeni Natsi, i soobscha otkryvajut tam gostinitsu "Vtoroj dom". Trilogija o prikljuchenijakh koaljonka Blinki Bill uvidela svet v 1939 godu i srazu zhe poljubilas chitateljam vsekh vozrastov snachala v Avstralii, a potom i vo vsjom mire, stav klassikoj detskoj literatury.