Playing Beatie Bow

Playing Beatie Bow is an Australian children's book written by Ruth Park and published for the first time on January 31, 1980. The story is about a 14-year-old girl, distraught by her parents' separation, travels back in time as a result of a fearsome game on the playground. Playing Beatie Bow is somewhere between a children's book and a fiction for young adults. CBCA Children's Book of the Year Award: Older Readers 1981 Own list of Canberra: Prize of fiction for greater readers (1994)