The Green Laurel

{{Short description|Book by Eleanor Spence}} {{Infobox book | | name = The Green Laurel | title_orig = | translator = | image = File:The Green Laurel cover.jpg | caption = First edition cover | author = [[Eleanor Spence]] | cover_artist = Geraldine Spence | country = Australia | language = [[English language|English]] | series = | genre = Children's fiction | publisher = [[Oxford University Press]] | release_date = 1963 | media_type = Print | pages = 181pp | isbn = | preceded_by = [[Lillipilly Hill]] | followed_by = The Year of the Currawong }}

'''''The Green Laurel''''' (1963) is a novel for children by Australian author [[Eleanor Spence]]; it was illustrated by [[Geraldine Spence]]. It won the [[Children's Book of the Year Award: Older Readers]] in 1964.<ref>[http://www.austlit.edu.au/austlit/page/C301289 Austlit - ''The Green Laurel'' by Eleanor Spence]</ref>

==Story outline==

The novel centres on a girl whose father runs a fair-ground train at a holiday resort. Illness forces him to give up his job and the family move to a Sydney suburb close to a migrant camp.

==Critical reception==

Writing in ''The Canberra Times'' K. Masterman noted: "The interesting and fascinating story brings out well the character of the two contrasted environments, and without any suggestion of preaching establishes the sound values that are felt without needing to be expressed in this writer's work."<ref>[http://nla.gov.au/nla.news-article105832295 "Book of the Year by Eleanor Spence" by K. Masterman, ''The Canberra Times'', 4 July 1964, p11]</ref>

==Awards==

* 1964 – winner [[Children's Book of the Year Award: Older Readers]]

==See also==

* [[1963 in literature]]

==References== {{Reflist}}

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