Stories from the Billabong

Stories from the Billabong PDF Author: James Vance Marshall
Publisher: Frances Lincoln Children's Books
ISBN: 9781847801241
Category : Juvenile Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 0

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From the author of Walkabout come ten of Australia's ancient aboriginal legends, authentically and elegantly retold. Here you can discover how Great Mother Snake created and peopled the world with plants and creatures, what makes Frogs croak, why Kangaroo has a pouch, and just what it is that makes Platypus so special. The illustrations are by the aboriginal artist and storyteller Francis Firebrace, whose distinctive, colourful work is known throughout Australia and beyond.

Stories from the Billabong

Stories from the Billabong PDF Author: James Vance Marshall
Publisher: Frances Lincoln Children's Books
ISBN: 9781847801241
Category : Juvenile Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 0

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Book Description
From the author of Walkabout come ten of Australia's ancient aboriginal legends, authentically and elegantly retold. Here you can discover how Great Mother Snake created and peopled the world with plants and creatures, what makes Frogs croak, why Kangaroo has a pouch, and just what it is that makes Platypus so special. The illustrations are by the aboriginal artist and storyteller Francis Firebrace, whose distinctive, colourful work is known throughout Australia and beyond.

Billabong Riders

Billabong Riders PDF Author: Mary Grant Bruce
Publisher: Rare Treasure Editions
ISBN: 1774643383
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 181

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In this adventure, the Billabong folk ride in wild country, droving cattle overland from the North. This is a story of good horses and dogs, their owners; and of a boy who found among them a new chance in life...

Splosh for the Billabong

Splosh for the Billabong PDF Author: Ros Moriarty
Publisher: Allen & Unwin
ISBN: 1925267652
Category : Juvenile Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 26

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A lyrical book which revels in all things swirly and squelchy, and explores northern Australian animals and landscapes as well as Indigenous art. Splosh for the billabong at shady bend of river. Brush for the flowers that burst in summer heat. A glorious celebration of country, animals and painting, illustrated by Balarinji, Australia's leading Indigenous design studio. Ros Moriarty, author of the acclaimed memoir Listening to Country, is also the founder of Indi Kindi early literacy education.

By the Billabong

By the Billabong PDF Author: Maura Finn
Publisher:
ISBN: 9781922626615
Category : Animals
Languages : en
Pages : 12

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A wisdom of wombats,A passel of possums,A cluster of spiders knitting socks . . .Who else might you meet on a trip to the billabong?Find out in this delightful romp through a much-loved Australian landscape.

Wombat Stew

Wombat Stew PDF Author: Marcia Kay Vaughan
Publisher: Scholastic Press
ISBN: 9781743622575
Category : Animals
Languages : en
Pages : 32

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Book Description
In this classic Australian picture book, a dingo catches a wombat and wants to cook him in a stew. But all the other bush animals have a plan to save their friend. They trick the dingo into using mud, feathers, flies, bugs and gumnuts in his wombat stew, and the result is a stew the dingo will never forget!

Walkabout

Walkabout PDF Author: James Vance Marshall
Publisher: Penguin UK
ISBN: 0141957816
Category : Juvenile Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 137

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Walkabout is a survival story for children written by James Vance Marshall. Mary and her young brother Peter are the only survivors of an aircrash in the middle of the Australian outback. Facing death from exhaustion and starvation, they meet an aboriginal boy who helps them to survive, and guides them along their long journey. But a terrible misunderstanding results in a tragedy that neither Mary nor Peter will ever forget . . . Reissued in the 'A Puffin Book' series of Puffin modern classics for children, Walkabout has been continuously in print since its first publication over 50 years ago.

A Little Bush Maid 

A Little Bush Maid  PDF Author: Mary Grant Bruce
Publisher: BEYOND BOOKS HUB
ISBN:
Category : Art
Languages : en
Pages : 175

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Hogg’s sworn foe was Lee Wing, the Chinese gardener, who reigned supreme in the orchard and the kingdom of vegetables — not quite the same thing as the vegetable kingdom, by the way! Lee Wing was very fat, his broad, yellow face generally wearing a cheerful grin — unless he happened to catch sight of Hogg. His long pigtail was always concealed under his flapping straw hat. Once Jim, who was Norah’s big brother, had found him asleep in his hut with the pigtail drooping over the edge of the bunk. Jim thought the opportunity too good to lose and, with such deftness that the Celestial never stirred, he tied the end of the pigtail to the back of a chair — with rather startling results when Lee Wing awoke with a sudden sense of being late, and made a spring from the bunk. The chair of course followed him, and the loud yell of fear and pain raised by the victim brought half the homestead to the scene of the catastrophe. Jim was the only one who did not wait for developments. He found business at the lagoon..FROM THE BOOKS.

The Ghost by the Billabong

The Ghost by the Billabong PDF Author: Jackie French
Publisher: HarperCollins
ISBN: 1743095791
Category : Juvenile Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 261

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The fifth title in the sweeping Matilda Saga Hippies wear beads, demonstrators march against the Vietnam War, and the world waits to see the first human steps on the moon's surface. But at Gibbers Creek, Jed Kelly sees ghosts, from the past and future, at the Drinkwater billabong where long ago the swaggie leaped to his defiant death. But is seventeen-year-old Jed a con artist or a survivor? When she turns up at Drinkwater Station claiming to be the great-granddaughter of Matilda Thompson's dying husband, Jed clearly has secrets. As does a veteran called Nicholas, who was badly wounded in the Vietnam War and now must try to create a life he truly wants to live, despite the ghosts that haunt him too. Set during the turbulence of the late 1960s, this was a time when brilliant and little-known endeavours saw Australia play a vital role in Neil Armstrong's 'one giant leap for mankind' on that first unforgettable moon walk. The fifth title in the highly acclaimed Matilda Saga, The Ghost by the Billabong is a story of deep conflicts and enduring passions - for other people, for the land, and for the future of humanity. PRAISE FOR THE MATILDA SAGA 'An engrossing mystery story, an ode to strong women, and a moving exploration of the private wounds we carry ... The Last Dingo Summer is a must for your summer reading list' - Better Reading 'The perfect read for anyone who loves immersing themselves in Australian fiction. Gripping, emotional and moving, Facing the Flame is a great book to curl up with on a warm spring night' - New Idea 'Highly recommended ... this was a complete binge, read in one night because it was just too good and too gripping to put down ... a cracking story filled with rich characters both old and new and imbued with all that we hold dear about Australian love of country and mateship' - ReadPlus

Animals Around the Billabong

Animals Around the Billabong PDF Author: Mike Ingram
Publisher:
ISBN: 9780992290573
Category : Aboriginal Australians
Languages : en
Pages : 16

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Bunyip in the Billibong

Bunyip in the Billibong PDF Author:
Publisher:
ISBN: 9781741696066
Category : Animals, Mythical
Languages : en
Pages : 24

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They have magical, rhythmic, rhyming text so students will want to read and re-read them over and over. For teachers, a different teaching focus is suggested for each day: - Day 1: Comprehension - Day 2: Vocabulary - Day 3: Flow/Phrasing/Fluency - Day 4: Phonic Knowledge, Phonemic Awareness - Day 5: Oral, Written and Visual Language The FOCUS PANEL provides prompts to support each focus. 1 copy of 1 Big Book.