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Advance Australia Fair by Arnold Adoff
Category: No Category | Series: Australian Children's Classics
Presents Australia's national anthem and illustrates it with paintings from some of Australia's finest artists including Fred McCubbin, Margaret Preston and Tom Roberts. Each painting depicts an aspect of the Australian landscape and culture and reflects the artist's view of the country.
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
My Brilliant Career/My Career Goes Bung by Miles Franklin
Category: No Category | Series: Australian Classics
'I am given to something which a man never pardons in a woman. You will draw away as though I were a snake when you hear.' With this warning, Sybylla confesses to her rich and handsome suitor that she is given to writing stories and bound, therefore, on a brilliant career. In this ironically titled and ...Show more
My Brother Jack by George Johnston
Category: Fiction | Series: Australian Classics
'The thing I am trying to get at is what made Jack different from me. Different all through our lives, I mean, and in a special sense, not just older or nobler or braver or less clever.' David and Jack Meredith grow up in a patriotic suburban Melbourne household during the First World War, and go on to ...Show more
Rainbow Serpent : REMAINDER by ROUGHSEY, DICK
Category: No Category | Series: Australian Children's Classics
Seven Little Australians by Ethel Turner
Category: No Category | Series: Australian Children's Classics
Short excerpt: Without doubt she was the worst of the seven probably because she was the cleverest. Her brilliant inventive powers plunged them all into ceaseless scrapes.
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 Coast Watchers by Eric Feldt
Category: No Category | Series: Australian War Classics
After Pearl harbour was bombed in 1941 the war in the Pacific gained momentum; Japanese troops began to move relentlessly south, towards Australia. Determined to provide an information network along the vulnerable coastlines of Northern Australia and the islands to the north, the Australian Navy develop ...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 Man from Snowy River and Other Verses by Andrew Barton 'Banjo' Paterson
Category: No Category | Series: Australian Classics Library
Publisher: Macmillan and co., limited Publication date: 1908 Subjects: History / Australia