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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
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
Islands of Angry Ghosts: The Story of Batavia, Australia's Bloodiest Mutiny by Hugh Edwards
14.99 AUD
Category: Classics | Series: Australian Classics Ser.
New edition. In 1629 the Dutch East India merchantman, the Batavia was wrecked off the coast of West Australia while on a voyage to Indonesia. What followed this disaster is a harrowing tale of desertion, betrayal and murder. This updated edition includes new photographs. A replica of the Batavia is in ...Show more
Looking for Crabs by Bruce Whatley
14.99 AUD
Category: Childrens | 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
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 Sister Sif by Ruth Park
19.95 AUD
Category: Childrens | Series: UQP Australian Classics Ser.
"Erika Magnus is a 14-year-old stirrer with a sky high IQ and complete confidence that she knows best. Her sister Sif may be seventeen, but Erika believes she has to be looked after and guided aright. So, when Sif longs to return home to the island of Rongo, a green dab in the middle of the Pacific ocea ...Show more
The Bride Stripped Bare by Nikki Gemmell
14.99 AUD
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 Man from Snowy River by Andrew Barton 'Banjo' Paterson; Annette MacArthur-Onslow (Illustrator)
14.99 AUD
Category: Picture Books | 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
16.99 AUD
Category: Classics | 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
The Tram to Bondi Beach 40th Anniversary Edition by Libby Hathorn
24.99 AUD
Category: Picture Books | Series: Australian Children's Classics Ser.
A story of a young boy's adventures working as a paperboy on the busy trams, travelling to Bondi Beach. Keiran wants nothing more than to be a paperboy on the busy trams, to Bondi Beach. What he discovers along the way, through daring and friendship, is a deep love of the trams themselves. Rattle and hu ...Show more
Waltzing Matilda by Andrew Barton 'Banjo' Paterson; Desmond Digby (Illustrator)
14.99 AUD
Category: Childrens | Series: Australian Children's Classics Ser. | Reading Level: Children's - Grade 1-2, Age 6-7
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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