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Australian Schoolmate Oxford Dictionary by Mark Gwynn
Category: No Category | Series: Australian Dictionaries/Thesauruses/Reference Ser.
This essential reference contains the complete text of the Australian School Oxford Dictionary in a handy ring binder format. This edition contains hundreds of entries that reflect the important areas of contemporary word creation. Headwords: 20,000+ Ages: 10-16 Includes grammar and reference guide Hole ...Show more
Australia's Nightingale: Nellie Melba (HB) by Cassy LIBERMAN
Category: No Category | Series: INSPIRATIONAL AUSTRALIAN WOMEN SERIES
This stunningly illustrated book is the latest addition to Cassy Liberman's Inspirational Australian Women series, following on from Fighting For Freedom: Nancy Wake and Wildflower: the life and art of Ellis Rowan. Australia's Nightingale tells the story of Australia's first great international musicia ...Show more
Australia's Outback: Photographs from the Australian Geographic Image Collection by Australian Geographic
Category: No Category | Series: Australian Geograph Ser.
There's no signpost or map reference, nor any border to cross - even though it covers several million square kilometres. In the end, the genius of The Outback is that you can't pin it down. To get there you have to head inland and keep travelling. You'll recognise it when it happens, but before you do, ...Show more
Banjo Paterson: Collected Verse by Banjo Paterson
Category: No Category | 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
Best Mates - Australian Photographic Gallery by Melanie Faith Dove
Category: No Category | Series: Australian Photographic Gallery
The Australian Photographic Gallery is a series of books that explores the Australian landscape in all of its dimensions: natural, cultural and social. Celebrating the talent and the passions of Australian photographers, it is highly individual yet accessible, inspiring and thought provoking.The first t ...Show more
Best of Australian Poems 2023 by Gig Ryan (ed.), Panda Ryan (ed.)
Category: No Category | Series: Best of Australian Poems Ser.
Best of Australian Poems is an annual anthology collecting previously published and unpublished poems to create a poetic snapshot and barometer of the year that was. Capturing the richness and diversity of Australian poetry, across a timeframe of 1 July 2022 - 1 August 2023, the series, now in its third ...Show more
Born Again Blakfella by Jack Charles
Category: No Category | Series: Australian
Stolen from his mother and placed into institutional care when he was only a few months old, Uncle Jack was raised under the government's White Australia Policy. The loneliness and isolation he experienced during those years had a devastating impact on him that endured long after he reconnected with his ...Show more
Born at the Right Time: A Memoir by Ron McCallum
Category: No Category | Series: Senior Australian of the Year
Blind from birth, Ron regards himself as fortunate to have been born at a time when ever improving technology has enabled him to live a rich and full life, and to become a professor of law at one of Australia's most prestigious universities. Ron McCallum has been blind from birth. When he was a child, ...Show more
Bridget: A New Australian by James Moloney
Category: No Category | Series: New Australian
Bridget's family has been turned out of their home during the Irish potato famine and their only refuge is the workhouse where living conditions are hard and freezing and the food sparse. There is one chance for Bridget and her sister - to take a ship to a new country and become Australians. But will th ...Show more
Bushfire: Surviving Black Saturday (My Australian Story) by Sally Murphy
Category: Art and Design | Series: My Australian Story
Amy is staying in Marysville with her grandmother, and help in the garden and clean out her gutters. It is, after all, bushfire season. As summer arrives, so do the fires, and Dad is busy helping control the flames in bushfires that have started burning in Victoria. But it is early February 2009, and th ...Show more
Cunning Crow by Gregg Dreise
Category: No Category | Series: Australian
Age range 5 to 12 Remember — beauty comes from within... Way back, before once-upon-a-time, there was the Dreamtime when all the birds were white. One of those white birds was a crow called Waan. One day a big storm came through and a magnificent rainbow appeared. When the birds passed through the rainb ...Show more
Discover: Mega Dinosaurs by Australian Geographic Staff
Category: No Category | Series: Discover Australian Geographic Ser.
Australia is full of evidence of dinosaurs and other creatures that roamed the Earth before us. Uncover their footprints, piece together their skeletons and discover these fascinating creatures. With detailed illustrations and plenty of fun facts, this book is a great way to introduce the prehistoric cr ...Show more