Author: Jack Lasenby
Publisher: HarperCollins Australia
ISBN: 0730401286
Category : Juvenile Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 190
Book Description
The smartest drover's dog there ever was. Winner of the NZ Post Children's & Young Adults Book Awards 2009 - Junior Fiction. the humorous and heartwarming story of Jack Jackman, a young boy who wants to be a stock drover, set in the small Waikato township of Waharoa in the 1930s. Jack has a wonderful, warm relationship with his parents and an old family friend, Andy the Drover, who each week drives a mob of sheep or cattle through the main street with the help of his dog, Old Drumble, and his horse, Nosy. All three become the boy's close friends over the long hot summer holidays, and each week Andy tells him an even more amazing story of how Old Drumble has saved the day yet again, with each adventure becoming more and more absurd. A Baron Munchausen of the sheep mob, Andy's yarns are delightful, funny and quixotic - and in the hands of a master storyteller like Jack Lasenby, a passionate advocate of children's literacy, the result is pure magic.
Old Drumble
Author: Jack Lasenby
Publisher: HarperCollins Australia
ISBN: 0730401286
Category : Juvenile Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 190
Book Description
The smartest drover's dog there ever was. Winner of the NZ Post Children's & Young Adults Book Awards 2009 - Junior Fiction. the humorous and heartwarming story of Jack Jackman, a young boy who wants to be a stock drover, set in the small Waikato township of Waharoa in the 1930s. Jack has a wonderful, warm relationship with his parents and an old family friend, Andy the Drover, who each week drives a mob of sheep or cattle through the main street with the help of his dog, Old Drumble, and his horse, Nosy. All three become the boy's close friends over the long hot summer holidays, and each week Andy tells him an even more amazing story of how Old Drumble has saved the day yet again, with each adventure becoming more and more absurd. A Baron Munchausen of the sheep mob, Andy's yarns are delightful, funny and quixotic - and in the hands of a master storyteller like Jack Lasenby, a passionate advocate of children's literacy, the result is pure magic.
Publisher: HarperCollins Australia
ISBN: 0730401286
Category : Juvenile Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 190
Book Description
The smartest drover's dog there ever was. Winner of the NZ Post Children's & Young Adults Book Awards 2009 - Junior Fiction. the humorous and heartwarming story of Jack Jackman, a young boy who wants to be a stock drover, set in the small Waikato township of Waharoa in the 1930s. Jack has a wonderful, warm relationship with his parents and an old family friend, Andy the Drover, who each week drives a mob of sheep or cattle through the main street with the help of his dog, Old Drumble, and his horse, Nosy. All three become the boy's close friends over the long hot summer holidays, and each week Andy tells him an even more amazing story of how Old Drumble has saved the day yet again, with each adventure becoming more and more absurd. A Baron Munchausen of the sheep mob, Andy's yarns are delightful, funny and quixotic - and in the hands of a master storyteller like Jack Lasenby, a passionate advocate of children's literacy, the result is pure magic.
Cranford, and other tales
Author: Elizabeth Cleghorn Gaskell
Publisher:
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Languages : en
Pages : 596
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Languages : en
Pages : 596
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The Works of Mrs. Gaskell: Cranford and other tales
Author: Elizabeth Cleghorn Gaskell
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Languages : en
Pages : 604
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Languages : en
Pages : 604
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Poems and Plays
Author: William Shakespeare
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Languages : en
Pages : 468
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Languages : en
Pages : 468
Book Description
The Encyclopaedic dictionary; a new, practical and exhaustive work of reference to all the words in the English language, with a full account of their origin, meaning, pronunciation, history and use
Author: Robert Hunter
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Languages : en
Pages : 1348
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Languages : en
Pages : 1348
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Lloyd's Encyclopaedic Dictionary
Author: Robert Hunter
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Category : Encyclopedias and dictionaries
Languages : en
Pages : 788
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Category : Encyclopedias and dictionaries
Languages : en
Pages : 788
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The Encyclopd̆ic Dictionary
Author: Robert Hunter
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Category : Encyclopedias and dictionaries
Languages : en
Pages : 784
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Category : Encyclopedias and dictionaries
Languages : en
Pages : 784
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Universal Dictionary of the English Language
Author: Robert Hunter
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Category : Encyclopedias and dictionaries
Languages : en
Pages : 1356
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Category : Encyclopedias and dictionaries
Languages : en
Pages : 1356
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The Modern World Dictionary of the English Language ...
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Category : Encyclopedias and dictionaries
Languages : en
Pages : 1384
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Category : Encyclopedias and dictionaries
Languages : en
Pages : 1384
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The Encyclopaedic Dictionary
Author: Robert Hunter
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Category : Encyclopedias and dictionaries
Languages : en
Pages : 1372
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Category : Encyclopedias and dictionaries
Languages : en
Pages : 1372
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