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The Rainbow Serpent 50th Anniversary Edition (HB) by Dick Roughsey
Category: Australiana | Series: Australian Children's Classics Ser.
Celebrating fifty years - a timeless classic from the Dreamtime. Dreamtime stories tell how the Rainbow Serpent came from beneath the ground and created huge ridges, mountains and gorges as it pushed upward. The name also reflects the snake-like meandering of water across a landscape and the colour spec ...Show more
The Sundowners by Jon Cleary
Category: Classics | Series: Australian Classics
The epic tale of the outback Australian family, the Carmodys. The Carmodys live in the outback, travelling around, shearing, droving, making ends meet and looking for that one special place they can settle down in. Along the way, Paddy, his wife Ida, and their son, Sean, meet some of the most memorable ...Show more
The Tall Man - Penguin Australian Classics by Chloe Hooper
Category: Fiction | Series: Penguin Australian Classics
The Tall Man is the story of Palm Island, the tropical paradise where one morning Cameron Doomadgee swore at a policeman and forty minutes later lay dead in a watch-house cell. It is the story of that policeman, the tall, enigmatic Christopher Hurley who chose to work in some of the toughest and wildest ...Show more
The Tram to Bondi Beach 40th Anniversary Edition by Libby Hathorn
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)
Category: Picture Books | 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