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Edward the Emu by Sheena Knowles
Category: Children's | Series: Australian Children's Classics Ser.
Tired of his life as an emu, Edward decides to try being something else for a change. He tries swimming with the seals, he spends a day lounging with the lions, and even slithers with the snakes. But Edward soon discovers that being an emu may be the best thing after all. Sheena Knowles's upbeat, rhymin ...Show more
Looking for Crabs by Bruce Whatley
Category: No Category | Series: Australian Children's Classics Ser.
A family on holiday at the beach go looking for crabs in rock pools, under little rocks at the bottom of the pools, under really big rocks, or looking for hermit crabs living in little shells. They go away thinking perhaps there are no crabs at that beach. The delightful illustrations accompanying the t ...Show more
The Bride Stripped Bare by Nikki Gemmell
Category: Fiction | Series: Australian Classics Series
For fans of Fifty Shades of Grey - the international bestseller - an explosive novel of sex, secrecy and escape. 'You've never been in control, until now; you've never, before, had exactly what you want...The lights turned off. A touch that's gentle, slow, provocative, that builds you up, that makes you ...Show more
The Confessions of a Beachcomber by E.J. Banfield
Category: No Category | Series: Australian Classics S.
Queensland's Dunk Island epitomises the image of the idyllic island retreat, and it is Banfield's account of daily life on the island, in this title, which has captured the imagination of readers around the world. His decision to retire from his strenuous public life to Dunk island sparked a trend, that ...Show more
The Man from Snowy River by Andrew Barton 'Banjo' Paterson; Annette MacArthur-Onslow (Illustrator)
Category: No Category | Series: Australian Children's Classics Ser.
Banjo Paterson and Henry Lawson were writing for the Sydney Bulletin' in 1892 when they decided to have a duel of poetry. The idea was to increase the number of poems they could sell to the paper. It began in fun but later became bitter. Paterson wrote many poems and stories about his travels in the Out ...Show more
The Rainbow Serpent by Dick Roughsey
Category: Children's | Series: Australian Children's Classics Ser.
A timeless classic from the Dreamtime. there are innumerable names and stories associated with the Rainbow Serpent, all of which communicate the significance of this being within Aboriginal traditions. Dreamtime stories tell how the Rainbow Serpent came from beneath the ground and created huge ridges, m ...Show more
Waltzing Matilda by Andrew Barton 'Banjo' Paterson; Desmond Digby (Illustrator)
Category: No Category | Series: Australian Children's Classics Ser.
This ballad of the sheep-stealing swagman is known the world over. Here, with 'Banjo' Paterson's original lyrics and Freya Blackwood's stunning ochre-toned paintings, we are treated not just to the swagman's story, but to the story of the shearers' strikes of the time, of the squatter's family, and of t ...Show more
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