Australian Film Institute awards Finalist at Prix Jeunesse International Festival awards in Munich, Germany Michala Banas – Best Juvenile Performance at the 1996 New Zealand Film and TV Awards Notes Books Louisa Iredale has a copy of Lewis Carroll's book Through the Looking-Glass in her bedroom. This is in homage to Lewis Carroll's book, which also involves a girl travelling through a mirror, albeit to another world. A novelised version of the Mirror, Mirror television story was written by Hilary Bell, one of the many co-writers of the television series, following the release of the series. However, although most of the book remained true to the series, there are some marked differences between the series and the novelised version of the story (e.g., the description of The Old Man's hair and the colour of the horse which was ridden by Nicholas). The book won the 1996 Aurealis Award for best young-adult novel. Filming locations The house, home to the Iredale and Tiegan family, is actually Gear Homestead in Porirua. Sir Ivor's house was a former building named "Brendenwood" at the grounds of Sacred Heart College in Lower Hutt. It was demolished several years ago. The train station in 1919 is Silverstream Railway Museum in Lower Hutt. The train station used in 1995, is the Khandallah railway station in Wellington. The park where Louisa, Titus and Nicholas have a picnic and Jo and her father go for a walk, is the Lady Norwood Rose Garden in Wellington Botanic Garden. Tama's house is filmed at Nairn Street (the flat across number 41), Wellington. The place where antique shop is in the series is located at 1, Riddiford Street in Wellington. The library where Tama goes with Louisa, is the Wellington City Libraries. Real world references The series timeline (for the era in which Louisa and Nicholas live in 1919), was dated four years after the bodies of most of the Russian imperial family, the Tsar, Tsarina and three of their daughters, were discovered. This made the character Nicholas' survival and escape at least possible in real world terms. The remains of the Tsarevich and his fourth sister were not uncovered until 2007, twelve years after the series was broadcast. Petra's short hair Petra Jared auditioned for the part of "Louisa". She had long hair at the time. Feeling upset because she thought that she had missed out on the part, she had