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A Fortunate Life: Australian Children's Classics by A. B. Facey; John Rose (Afterword by)
19.99 AUD
Category: Kid's Classics | Series: Australian Children's Classics
Bert Facey saw himself as an ordinary man, but his remarkable story reveals an extraordinary life lived to the full.Bert Facey was a battler, ever optimistic and hopeful despite the hardships of his lfe. A true classic of Australian literature, his simply written autobiography is an inspiration.This edi ...Show more
Banjo Paterson: Collected Verse by Banjo Paterson
19.99 AUD
Category: Poetry | Series: Penguin Australian Classics Ser.
The poet A B 'Banjo' Paterson, best known for his rousing folk classics "The Man from Snowy River" and "Waltzing Matilda," is widely acknowledged as Australia's greatest and most popular balladist. His poems, written with great gusto and humour, celebrate all the romance and rough-and-tumble of old Aust ...Show more
Blueback: Australian Children's Classics by Tim Winton
19.99 AUD
Category: Kid's 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
Cloudstreet: Winner of the Miles Franklin Literary Award 1992 - Penguin Australian Classics by Tim Winton
19.99 AUD
Category: Fiction | Series: Penguin Australian Classics
Two rural families - the Pickles and the Lambs - flee to the city after separate catastrophes. They find themselves sharing a great, breathing, shuddering joint called Cloudstreet, where they begin their lives again from scratch - and for twenty years, they roister and rankle, laugh and curse until the ...Show more
Collected Poems of John Shaw Neilson by John Shaw Neilson
24.95 AUD
Category: Poetry | Series: Australian Classics Library
John Shaw Neilson (1872-1942) is Australia's great lyric poet and Collected Poems (1934), dedicated to Louise Dyer, bears his imprimatur. Encouraged by his editor, Robert Croll, Neilson was totally involved in its publication and promotion, selecting the poems, rewriting lines, adding new stanzas and re ...Show more
Edward the Emu by Sheena Knowles
16.99 AUD
Category: Picture Books | 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
Fortunate Life - Penguin Australian Classics (HB) by A. B. Facey
19.99 AUD
Category: Biography & Memoir | Series: Penguin Australian Classics
A true classic of Australian literature, this simply written autobiography is an inspiration Born in 1894, Albert Facey lived the rough frontier life of a sheep farmer, survived the gore of Gallipoli, raised a family through the Depression, and spent 60 years with his beloved wife, Evelyn. Despite endu ...Show more
Hating Alison Ashley (Australian Children's Classics) by Robin Klein; Allison Colpoys (Illustrator)
19.99 AUD
Category: Kid'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: Kid'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
Mulga Bills Bicycle 50th Anniversary HB Edition by Deborah Niland (Illustrator); Kilmeny Niland (Illustrator)
34.99 AUD
Category: Picture Books | Series: Australian Children's Classics Ser.
Celebrating 50 years in print, this is a new edition of the classic children's poem by Australia's favourite poet, A.B. 'Banjo' Paterson. Mulga Bill's Bicycle was written by Banjo Paterson in 1896. It was written at a time when cycling was a relatively new and popular social activity. Cycles were ridden ...Show more
My Brother Jack by George Johnston
24.99 AUD
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