Title Topsy-turvy world : how Australian animals puzzled early explorers / Kirsty Murray

Published Canberra, A.C.T. : National Library of Australia, 2012 Canberra : National Library of Australia, 2012 ©2012

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Description 95 pages : colour illustrations ; 31 cm regular print Series Children's Book Council of Australia awards 2013 Contents Intro--Kangaroo--Platypus--Echidna--Thylacine--Tasmanian Devil--Pig-footed bandicoot--Koala--Common wombat--Grey-headed flying fox--Emu--Black swan--Laughing kookaburra--Superb lyrebird--Frilled lizard--Sea dragon--The Europeans: who was who?--Glossary--List of illustrations--Index--Acknowledgements Summary To the first Europeans who came to Australia, everything seemed topsy turvy. Christmas was in the summer and trees shed their bark but not their leaves. And the animals were bizarre. There was a bird that laughed like a donkey and a type of greyhound that bound along on its hind legs like a hare. There was an animal in Tasmania whose nocturnal screeches sounded like the devil and a river creature that had a ducks bill at one end and a beavers tail at the other. The Europeans had never seen anything like these animals before and gave them names similar to those of the European creatures they already knew. They drew and painted odd pictures of them, showing they did not understand the animals habits. In one illustration, a wombat is standing on its back legs and in another a Tasmanian tiger is wrestling with a platypus of the same size Analysis Australian Natural history - general Notes Includes index New South Wales Premiers Reading Challenge 5-6 Bibliography Includes bibliographical references and index Audience For primary school age Notes Eve Pownall Award for Information Books, shortlist 2013 Subject Animals -- Australia -- Juvenile literature. Children's Book Council of Australia Awards (shortlisted) Children's Book Week 2013 -- Shortlist -- Eve Pownall Award for information books Europeans -- Australia -- Attitudes -- Juvenile literature. Europeans -- Australia -- Attitudes. Author National Library of Australia, author ISBN 9780642277497 (hbk.)

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