Articles by the author
The stories behind 'The Carousel'
From Ursula Dubosarsky When we were looking for an illustrator for "The Carousel" I happened to see a painting of a toy horse that was part of an exhibition at the Randwick Children's Hospital. C...
Published on October 23, 2011.
Post-war place and displacement in Rumer Godden's "The Doll's house" and Mary Norton's "The Borrowers"
Children are always small, living in a world of large adults, but in some children's books there are people even smaller than they are. In these books, 'little people' books, ordinary-sized childre...
http://hdl.handle.net/1959.14/76602Published in Macquarie University PhD thesis 2006 on April 9, 2010.
Hello darkness, my old friend
Ursula Dubosarsky peers into a half-light inhabited by sadness and hope. The forest looms dark, deep and mysterious, or so it appears to people, especially poets and painters, who enter it alone. ...
Published in The Age on June 14, 2008.
How I came to write 'The Red Shoe'
I'd been visiting a primary school in Bankstown, Sydney, to talk about my books and got lost driving home. On the car radio, as I was driving around and around Bankstown , the news came in that Mr...
Published on January 1, 2008.
Turning the first pages of adulthood
There's a curious moment in your life as a child when you decide for the first time to read a book written for adults. It's one of the great mysteries, of course, for children's writers such as I a...
Published in The Age on January 6, 2007.
Writing 'The First Book of Samuel' and 'Theodora's Gift'
From a speech given by Ursula Dubosarsky at the recent Sydney Jewish Writer's Festival, held in May 2006. How did a non-Jewish writer come to write two novels about a Jewish family, The First Book...
Published on May 1, 2006.
Beware of the Guinea Pig - By Ursula Dubosarsky
King John the guinea pig who lives in our backyard Is finding his retirement pretty hard Confined within a cage upon our lawn Now throne and crown and kingdom all are gone. O'erthrown by brother ...
Published in Kid's Night In on January 1, 2003.
The Poisoned Apple
In an Australia Day essay commissioned by the Herald and the State Library of NSW for the Mitchell Manuscripts Collection, URSULA DUBOSARSKY recalls an Australia Day dominated by ants, potatoes and...
Published in (Spectrum) The Sydney Morning Herald on January 24, 1998.