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Ruth Park

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born

August 23, 1923 in Auckland, New Zealand

died

December 16, 2010

gender

female

genre

Children's Books, Literature & Fiction

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Ruth Park was a New Zealand-born author, who spent most of her life in Australia. She was born in Auckland, and her family later moved to Te Kuiti further south in the North Island of New Zealand, where they lived in isolated areas.

During the Great Depression her working class father worked on bush roads, as a driver, on relief work, as a sawmill hand, and finally shifted back to Auckland as council worker living in a state house. After Catholic primary school Ruth won a partial scholarship to secondary school, but this was broken by periods of being unable to afford to attend. For a time she stayed with relatives on a Coromandel farming estate where she was treated like a serf by the wealthy landowner until she told the rich woman what she...more

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Books by Ruth Park

Average rating: 3.91 · 1,795 ratings · 156 reviews · 49 distinct works

	Playing Beatie Bow 3.89 avg rating — 731 ratings — published 1981 — 11 editions	My rating:
	The Harp In The South 3.88 avg rating — 334 ratings — published 1948 — 14 editions	My rating:
	Poor Man's Orange 4.01 avg rating — 135 ratings — published 1949 — 6 editions	My rating:
	The Muddle-headed Wombat (Muddle-Headed Wombat, #1-4) by Ruth Park, Noela Young (Illustrator) 4.04 avg rating — 110 ratings — published 1963 — 2 editions	My rating:
	My Sister Sif 3.83 avg rating — 103 ratings — published 1991 — 9 editions	My rating:
	Swords And Crowns And Rings 4.03 avg rating — 59 ratings — 4 editions	My rating:
	Missus 3.62 avg rating — 58 ratings — published 2000 — 9 editions	My rating:
	A Fence Around The Cuckoo 3.95 avg rating — 37 ratings — 3 editions	My rating:
	When The Wind Changed by Ruth Park, Deborah Niland (Illustrator) 4.16 avg rating — 25 ratings — published 1981 — 4 editions	My rating:
	Callie's Castle by Ruth Park, Kilmeny Niland (Illustrator) 3.88 avg rating — 26 ratings — 3 editions	My rating:

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Series by Ruth Park

Harp in the South (3 books)
by Ruth Park

3.89 avg rating — 541 ratings

Muddle-Headed Wombat (13 books)
by Ruth Park, Noela Young (Illustrator)

4.11 avg rating — 171 ratings

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