and thoroughly sensible". Hugh's Zoo won the Children's Book of the Year Award: Picture Book in 1965. The award was controversial; the judges' decision was not unanimous, and they were disappointed by the number of entries and the overall standard. However, they felt that Hugh's Zoo was "strongly and effectively presented with honesty and sincerity." There was also much discussion by librarians in their professional journal. In The Sydney Morning Herald and the Canberra Times, reviewers approved of the award, saying that it was "well deserved .... intelligent and highly entertaining", and noting that the "[v]ocabulary is not of the sieved-apple-and custard variety, but grown-up here and there; children of all ages lick their lips over new words." In The Affable, Amiable Bulldozer Man, a bulldozer comes to clear bush, in the process destroying the homes of birds, animals and insects. One small ant bites the driver of the bulldozer, and the story has a happy ending. Kathleen Commins in The Sydney Morning Herald thought it was "sensitively told ... [with] some appreciative and gentle ridicule of the kind of places that would replace the forest." A US reviewer, however, while recognising that destruction of forest and habitat occurred in the US as in Australia, found "the rhymes .. facile, the pictures amusing but ordinary." Another Australian reviewer thought that the intended audience of young readers would invest the bulldozer with "the same magical significance as the steam engine or fire engine had for their parents." Novels for children and young adults MacIntyre received a three-year Children's Literature Fellowship from the Australia Council to visit the United States from 1974 to 1976, in order to study and write in the newly emerging genre of young adult literature. She also travelled to New Guinea, Italy and Japan, the latter with a grant from the Australia-Japan Foundation in 1976. MacIntyre said in 1978, "At first I wrote and illustrated picture books, using words sparingly. Now less interested in how things look, and more concerned in how they seem to be." Ninji's Magic (1966) was MacIntyre's first full-length novel, for an older age-group than her previous books, and was also the first that she did not illustrate; the drawings were by Mamoru Funai. It was set in New Guinea, about a young boy from the highlands and his encounter with white people and western education. Reviewers described the story as "absorbing"; "informative, sympathetically