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Advance Australia Fair by Arnold Adoff
$14.95 AUD
Category: Children's Picture Books | Series: Australian Children's Classics
Presents Australia's national anthem and illustrates it with paintings from some of Australia's finest artists including Fred McCubbin, Margaret Preston and Tom Roberts. Each painting depicts an aspect of the Australian landscape and culture and reflects the artist's view of the country.
Banjo Paterson: Collected Verse by Banjo Paterson
$19.99 AUD
Category: Australia | 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
$26.00 (23% off)
Category: Accessories | 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
Capricornia by Xavier Herbert
$14.99 AUD
$19.99 (25% off)
Category: Classics | Series: Australian Classics
Spanning three generations, Capricornia tells the story of Australia's north. It is a story of whites and Aborigines and Asians, of chance relationships that can form bonds for life, of dispossession, murder and betrayal. 'Capricornia will always be one of the greatest of Australian novels, a defining w ...Show more
Cloudstreet: Winner of the Miles Franklin Literary Award 1992 - Penguin Australian Classics by Tim Winton
$19.99 AUD
$26.00 (23% off)
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
Come in Spinner by D Cusack, F James
$14.99 AUD
$19.99 (25% off)
Category: Classics | Series: Australian Classics
Come in Spinner, a collaboration with Florence James, was an immediate sensation when it was first published in an abridged edition in 1951. (The complete edition was published by A&R in the 1980s.) Set in a beauty salon at the Hotel South Pacific in wartime Sydney, it revolves around the lives and ...Show more
Edward the Emu by Sheena Knowles
$16.99 AUD
Category: Children's Picture Books | Series: Australian Children's Classics Ser.
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
$26.00 (23% off)
Category: Biography | 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
$26.00 (23% off)
Category: Accessories | Series: Australian Children's Classics
'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
$26.00 (23% off)
Category: Classics | Series: Australian Children's Classics
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: Children's 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
Looking for Crabs by Bruce Whatley
$14.99 AUD
$15.99 (6% off)
Category: Children's Picture Books | 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