Description |
293 pages : illustrations (some color) ; 27 cm |
Contents |
From the Cabbage patch fib / Paul Jennings -- The flying emu / Sally Morgan -- The railway historical steam weekend / Max Fatchen -- from The magic pudidng / Norman Lindsay -- from Blabber mouth / Morris Gleitzman -- from Pigs might fly / Emily Rodda -- from A fortunate life / A.B. Facey -- from The sign of the seahorse / Graeme Base -- from The bugalugs bum thief / Tim Winton -- from The muddle-headed wombat / Rugh Park -- poems from Who's who at the zoo / Celeste Walters -- stories from I hate Fridays / Rachael Flynn -- from Wicked! / Morris Gleitzman and Paul Jennings -- from Me and Mary Kangaroo / Kevin Gilbert -- from Seven little Australians / Ethel Turner -- from Hating Alison Ashley / Robin Klein -- John Brown, Rose and the midnight cat / Jenny Wagner -- from No gun for Asmir / Christobel Mattingley -- from Blinky Bill / Dorothy Wall -- The human fly from Bendigo / Doug MacLeod -- from Through the witch's window / Caroline Macdonald -- The wolf / Margaret Barbalet -- from Storm-boy / Colin Thiele -- from Tangara / Nan Chauncy -- A short, summery thin, thong song / Max Fatchen -- from Where the whales sing / Victor Kelleher -- from The burnt stick / Anthony Hill -- from The black duck / Eleanor Nilsson -- from The sugar-gum tree / Patricia Wrightson -- from Little brother / Allan Baillie -- Vampire visit / Doug MacLeod -- from The giant's tooth / Gillian Rubinstein -- from The twenty-seventh annual African hippopotamus race / Morris Lurie -- from Snugglepot and Cuddlepie / May Gibbs |
Summary |
The Puffin Treasury of Australian Children's Stories shows Australian writing at its liveliest, with exciting excerpts, poems and complete stories from many of our most popular authors. From everyone's favourite classics such as the irreverent The Magic Pudding, The Muddle-headed Wombat, and Snugglepot and Cuddlepie to the very latest in spookiness from Paul Jennings and Morris Gleitzman, there is something for everybody in this delightfully illustrated treasury |
Audience |
Children 6-10 years |
Subject |
Aboriginal Australians -- Juvenile fiction.
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Children's stories, Australian -- Aboriginal Australian authors
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Children's stories, Australian.
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Stolen generations (Australia) -- Juvenile fiction.
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Genre/Form |
Fiction.
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Author |
Ronai, Kay
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LC no. |
abn97206250 |
ISBN |
0670878685 (hbk.) |
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