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Advance Australia Fair by Arnold Adoff
14.95 AUD
Category: AUSTRALIANA | 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.
Blueback: Australian Children's Classics by Tim Winton
19.99 AUD
Category: CLASSICS | Series: Australian Children's Classics
Bluebackis an achingly beautiful story about family, belonging, and living a life in tune with the environment, from Tim Winton, one of Australia's best-loved authors.'Winton ... convince(s) us of the preciousness of our oceans not through lectures but through his characters' steady wonder.' New York Ti ...Show more
Edward the Emu by Sheena Knowles
16.99 AUD
Category: Kids Australiana | Series: Australian Children's Classics Ser. | Reading Level: very good
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
Hating Alison Ashley (Australian Children's Classics) by Robin Klein; Allison Colpoys (Illustrator)
19.99 AUD
Category: CHILDREN'S CLASSICS | Series: Australian Children's Classics | Reading Level: 10+
'There was one kid, Alison Ashley, and becuase no one was sitting next to me, Miss Belmont put Alison Ashley there. And from the first day I hated her.'Alison Ashley is sheer perfection in every department. She has everything: intelligence, good looks, a wealthy family and perfect manners and Erica hate ...Show more
I Can Jump Puddles (Australian Children's Classics) by Alan Marshall
19.99 AUD
Category: CHILDREN'S CLASSICS | Series: Australian Children's Classics | Reading Level: 10+
It amazed me that they would imagine I would never walk again. I knew what I was going to do. I was going to break in wild horses and yell 'Ho! Ho!' and wave my hat in the air, and I was going to write a book like The Coral Island. Every so often, there comes a story so brilliant and lively and moving ...Show more
Looking for Alibrandi Puffin Classic by Melina Marchetta
19.99 AUD
Category: CLASSICS | Series: Australian Children's Classics
For as long as Josephine Alibrandi can remember, it's just been her, her mom, and her grandmother. Now it's her final year at a wealthy Catholic high school. The nuns couldn't be any stricter--but that doesn't seem to stop all kinds of men from coming into her life. Caught between the old-world valu ...Show more
Picnic at Hanging Rock (Australian Children's Classics) by Joan Lindsay; Allison Colpoys (Illustrator)
19.99 AUD
Category: CLASSICS | Series: Australian Children's Classics | Reading Level: 10+
SOON TO BE A MAJOR TELEVISION SERIES STARRING NATALIE DORMER (GAME OF THRONES). 'Everyone agreed that the day was just right for the picnic to Hanging Rock - a shimmering summer morning warm and still, with cicadas shrilling...' St Valentine's Day, in the midst of the hot summer of 1900, a party of sc ...Show more
Playing Beatie Bow by Ruth Park
19.99 AUD
Category: CHILDREN'S CLASSICS | Series: Australian Children's Classics | Reading Level: 10+
'Now then,' thought Abigail, 'something very weird has happened to me. I'm in the last century. I don't know why, and that doesn't matter. I've got to get back.' Every so often, there comes a story so brilliant and lively and moving that it cannot be left in the past. Rediscover the magic of our countr ...Show more
Seven Little Australians by Ethel Turner
19.99 AUD
Category: CHILDREN'S CLASSICS | Series: Australian Children's Classics | Reading Level: 10+
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.
Taronga (Australian Children's Classics) by Victor Kelleher
19.99 AUD
Category: CHILDREN'S CLASSICS | Series: Australian Children's Classics | Reading Level: 10+
"The great dome of the sky, black, star-sprinkled, arched above him, appearing at that moment so limitless, so vast and free, that the fences and cages of Taronga were dwarfed, reduced to the point where they barely seemed to exist." Every so often, there comes a story so brilliant and lively and moving ...Show more
The Man from Snowy River by Andrew Barton 'Banjo' Paterson; Annette MacArthur-Onslow (Illustrator)
14.99 AUD
Category: Kids Australiana | 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
14.99 AUD
Category: Kids Australiana | 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