The Best-Kept Secret

Overview:

  • Title: The Best-Kept Secret
  • Author: Emily Rodda
  • Year: 1989
  • ISBN-10: 0207158096
  • Publisher: Angus & Robertson
  • Price: A$
  • Pages: 114
  • Binding: Hardcover
  • Type: Novel
  • Title Reference: The Best-Kept Secret
  • Notes:
    • No printed Australian price. Dust jacket has £5.95.
    • Third printing. Copyright page states:
        First published in Australia ... in 1988
        First published in New Zealand ... in 1989
        First published in the United Kingdom ... in 1988

        Reprinted in 1989 (twice)
      Despite the £ price on the dust jacket, taken to have been published in Australia because A&R was an Australian based company, plus the address of the Australian office is listed first on the copyright page.
      Also, the copy used for this data stated to have been printed in Australia.
    • Dust jacket of this printing has the Children's Book Council of Australia "Short Listed Book" sigil printed on it. (silver; bottom left-hand corner). (Implies printed before the title's win was announced.)