{{Infobox book| | name = The Min-Min | title_orig = | translator = | image = File:The_Min-Min.jpg | caption = | author = [[Mavis Thorpe Clark]] | cover_artist = | country = Australia | language = [[English language|English]] | series = | genre = children's fiction | publisher = Lansdowne Press, Melbourne | release_date = 1966 | media_type = Print | pages = 206 pp | isbn = | preceded_by = They Came South | followed_by = Blue Above the Trees }} {{Short description|1966 children's novel by Mavis Thorpe Clark}} '''''The Min-Min''''' is a 1966 children's novel by Australian author [[Mavis Thorpe Clark]], illustrated by Genevieve Melrose.<ref name="austlit">[http://www.austlit.edu.au/austlit/page/C166305 Austlit - ''The Min-Min'' by Mavis Thorpe Clark]</ref> It won the [[Children's Book of the Year Award: Older Readers]] in 1967.<ref name="ct1967">[http://nla.gov.au/nla.news-article106965786 "Children's Book Week 1967", ''The Canberra Times'', 8 July 1967, p13]</ref>
==Plot outline==
Set in a squalid fettlers' siding on the east-west railway just south of Woomera, this novel follows the story of Sylvie Edwards and her younger brother Reg. After Reg destroys a teacher's record player the two children set off across the desert to the Tuckers' homestead.
==Critical reception==
Reviewing the novel in ''The Canberra Times'' Elizabeth Bray was disappointed with the book: "The author seems to have attempted to write the story on two levels - as an adventure story, and as the portrait of a girl passing from childhood into adolescence. The second aspect is tenuously linked with the "min-min", a light seen in the desert night sky; as the blurb puts it "the gleam in the dark is symbolic of her life and future". In spite of this, Sylvie's character remains one-dimensional."<ref>[http://nla.gov.au/nla.news-article106965788 "Story on two levels" by Elizabeth Bray, ''The Canberra Times'', 8 July 1967, p14]</ref>
==See also==
* [[1966 in Australian literature]]
==References== {{Reflist}}
== External links ==
* https://archive.org/details/minminclar00clar
{{Children's Book of the Year Award for Older Readers}}
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