Author: Dorothy Wall Publisher: ISBN: 9781849025713 Category : Children's stories Languages : en Pages : 442
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This delightful set of stories about the adventures of a mischievous koala bear has been loved by generations of young Australians. Dorothy Wall's amusing tales and drawings, and her love of the bush and concern for its conservation, still have the power to enchant children everywhere. This handsome new edition contains the complete text of 'Blinky Bill', 'Blinky Bill Grows Up' and 'Blinky Bill and Nutsy', with all the original charming illustrations.
Author: Dorothy Wall Publisher: ISBN: 9781460750094 Category : Alphabet books Languages : en Pages : 10
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Learning is so much more fun when you can do it with Blinky Bill! R is for rabbit and P is for peekaboo. Discover the alphabet with mischievous Blinky Bill and his adorable Australian bush friends. Ages 3+
Author: Ethel C Pedley Publisher: ISBN: Category : Languages : en Pages : 116
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Little Dot had lost her way in the bush. She knew it, and was very frightened. She was too frightened in fact to cry, but stood in the middle of a little dry, bare space, looking around her at the scraggy growths of prickly shrubs that had torn her little dress to rags, scratched her bare legs and feet till they bled, and pricked her hands and arms as she had pushed madly through the bushes, for hours, seeking her home. Sometimes she looked up to the sky. But little of it could be seen because of the great tall trees that seemed to her to be trying to reach heaven with their far-off crooked branches. She could see little patches of blue sky between the tangled tufts of her way in the and was very drooping leaves, and, as the dazzling sunlight had faded, she began to think it was getting late, and that very soon it would be night.
Author: Stephanie Owen Reeder Publisher: ISBN: 9780642279408 Category : Australian fiction Languages : en Pages :
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Age range 6+ What makes a children's book character memorable?Is it their personality, the story they tell or the way they're depicted by theillustrator? Is it that they make us laugh or cry? Or is it that we canidentify with them? Often, even as adults, we can remember what our favouritechildren's book characters said or conjure an image of them in our mind's eye. From Snugglepot and Cuddlepie to the green sheep and Pig the Pug,Australian children's book characters have always delighted the young andyoung-at-heart. Get together with old friends and meet new ones in thislighthearted retrospective of much-loved characters from over a century of Australianillustrated books for children. Many will be delighted to reencounter Albert, the cranky cut-and-come-againmagic pudding, who has fought the puddin' thieves in multiple editions, as wellas across the stage in musical theatre, puppet shows, animated films and opera.Others will be thrilled to see lovable grass tree Grug, who was once describedby The New York Times as the 'Elmo ofDown Under', and who has bustled through over 30 picture books since he firstappeared in Grug in 1979. With such classic characters included alongside newer stars, parents andgrandparents can not only share their favourites, but can also get to know the newercharacters who enchant their children and grandchildren. Today's little oneslove to go searching for Mem Fox and Judy Horacek's green sheep, who won theCBCA Early Childhood Book of the Year Award in 2005. They grump along with NickBland's bear, who has been cranky, itchy, hungry and noisy, to name but a fewof his dispositions. And they giggle at greedy Pig, the pug, who is awfullymean to his flatmate Trevor, but who always gets his comeuppance in the end. All these characters and more showcase the breadth of Australianchildren's books over the last century and give readers of all ages the chanceto get to know their favourite characters a little better.
Author: Antonio Muñoz Molina Publisher: Farrar, Straus and Giroux ISBN: 0374720282 Category : Fiction Languages : en Pages : 432
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Winner of the 2020 Medici Prize for Foreign Novel From the award-winning author of the Man Booker Prize finalist Like a Fading Shadow, Antonio Muñoz Molina presents a flâneur-novel tracing the path of a nameless wanderer as he walks the length of Manhattan, and his mind. De Quincey, Baudelaire, Poe, Joyce, Benjamin, Melville, Lorca, Whitman . . . walkers and city dwellers all, collagists and chroniclers, picking the detritus of their eras off the filthy streets and assembling it into something new, shocking, and beautiful. In To Walk Alone in the Crowd, Antonio Muñoz Molina emulates these classic inspirations, following their peregrinations and telling their stories in a book that is part memoir, part novel, part chronicle of urban wandering. A skilled collagist himself, Muñoz Molina here assembles overheard conversations, subway ads, commercials blazing away on public screens, snatches from books hurriedly packed into bags or shoved under one’s arm, mundane anxieties, and the occasional true flash of insight—struggling to announce itself amid this barrage of data—into a poem of contemporary life: an invitation to let oneself be carried along by the sheer energy of the digital metropolis. A denunciation of the harsh noise of capitalism, of the conversion of everything into either merchandise or garbage (or both), To Walk Alone in the Crowd is also a celebration of the beauty and variety of our world, of the ecological and aesthetic gaze that can, even now, recycle waste into art, and provide an opportunity for rebirth.
Author: Gustave Kerker Publisher: Wentworth Press ISBN: 9781011096305 Category : Languages : en Pages : 220
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Author: David G. Earl Publisher: ISBN: 9781936051229 Category : Languages : en Pages : 32
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Koala Koala is not a bear; he's a koala just a koala. However, when he meets his new teacher, who knows everything about everything, he must prove that he is not a koala bear. This proves to be a frustrating and demanding task when his classmates and even his best friend Wumbatt have doubts. Keep up with Koala Koala and Friends at: www.koalakoala.com
Author: Sarah Eccleson Publisher: ISBN: 9781760794330 Category : Juvenile Fiction Languages : en Pages : 0
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"Enzo the koala had grown into a big strong boy and he thought it was time to find a tree of his own. Like all koalas living in the wild, Enzo has to deal with lots of challenges in his search for a new home. Join Enzo on his journey to find 'a tree for me'. Enzo is based on an actual koala that lives at the Currumbin Wildlife Sanctuary on the Gold Coast of Queensland Australia. He is loved by visitors and staff and is featured in the sanctuary's Koala Experience. Enzo was born at Currumbin Wildlife Sanctuary in 2018 to his mother, Caramello and father Gianni. His brothers and sisters include Osha, Chardy, Moet and Brut." -- Publisher.
Author: Mervyn Skipper Publisher: ISBN: 9789833987160 Category : Animals Languages : en Pages : 155
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The animals of the jungle gather to discuss how they can stop the White Man from chopping down the trees and and destroying their home. A collection of tales from Borneo.
Author: Dorothy Wall
Author: Dorothy Wall
Author: Ethel C Pedley
Author: Stephanie Owen Reeder
Author: Antonio Muñoz Molina
Author: Gustave Kerker
Author: David G. Earl
Author: Sarah Eccleson
Author: Mervyn Skipper
Author: John E. Simkin