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Picnic at Hanging Rock (Australian Children's Classics) by Joan Lindsay; Allison Colpoys (Illustrator)
$19.99 AUD
Category: Children/Teenage Fiction | Series: Australian Children's Classics
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/Teenage Fiction | Series: Australian Children's Classics
'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
Rabbit-Proof Fence by Larissa Behrendt
$16.99 AUD
Category: Australia | Series: Australian Screen Classics S.
Three Aboriginal girls have been forcibly removed from their outback families in 1931 to be trained as domestic servants, as part of official government policy. They escape and begin a 1500-mile journey home using a rabbit-proof fence as a guide, with authorities chasing them all the way. Adapted fro m ...Show more
Seven Little Australians by Ethel Turner
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Category: Children/Teenage Fiction | Series: Australian Children's Classics
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/Teenage Fiction | Series: Australian Children's Classics
"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 Getting of Wisdom - Penguin Australian Classics by Henry Handel Richardson
$25.00 AUD
Category: Classics | Series: Penguin Australian Classics
When Laura Rambotham arrives at an exclusive Melbourne girls school from her country home, she is ridiculed by the other pupils for her differences - her name, her unusual clothes and, especially, for her 'unpardonable sin': her exceptional musical ability. Laura endures ostracism and misery as she trie ...Show more
The Harp In The South - Penguin Australian Classics by Ruth Park
$25.00 AUD
Category: Classics | Series: Penguin Australian Classics
Amid the brothels, grog shops and run-down boarding houses of inner-city Surry Hills, money is scarce and life is not easy. Crammed together within the thin walls of Twelve-and-a-Half Plymouth Street are the Darcy family: Mumma, loving and softhearted; Hughie, her drunken husband; pipe-smoking Grandma; ...Show more
The Man from Snowy River by Andrew Barton 'Banjo' Paterson; Annette MacArthur-Onslow (Illustrator)
$16.99 AUD
Category: Children's 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: Children's Soft Covers | 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 Tall Man - Penguin Australian Classics by Chloe Hooper
$19.99 AUD
Category: Paperback 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