Author: Trina Saffioti
Publisher:
ISBN: 9781922613523
Category : Costume
Languages : en
Pages : 0
Book Description
Age range 4 to 12 They placed the lei around her neck and a frangipani crown on her head. They put bangles around her wrists and the ukulele in her arms. 'Now you are a real island princess.' Based on the experiences of the author's mother, The Old Frangipani Tree at Flying Fish Point is a touching story that follows a young girl named Faith, whose family cannot afford a fancy dress costume for the school's carnival. Luckily, her family have just the costume in mind. With breathtaking illustrations that boldly draw us in to the narrative, The Old Frangipani Tree at Flying Fish Point is a delightful story for early to middle readers about courage, community and creativity.
The Old Frangipani Tree at Flying Fish Point
Author: Trina Saffioti
Publisher:
ISBN: 9781922613523
Category : Costume
Languages : en
Pages : 0
Book Description
Age range 4 to 12 They placed the lei around her neck and a frangipani crown on her head. They put bangles around her wrists and the ukulele in her arms. 'Now you are a real island princess.' Based on the experiences of the author's mother, The Old Frangipani Tree at Flying Fish Point is a touching story that follows a young girl named Faith, whose family cannot afford a fancy dress costume for the school's carnival. Luckily, her family have just the costume in mind. With breathtaking illustrations that boldly draw us in to the narrative, The Old Frangipani Tree at Flying Fish Point is a delightful story for early to middle readers about courage, community and creativity.
Publisher:
ISBN: 9781922613523
Category : Costume
Languages : en
Pages : 0
Book Description
Age range 4 to 12 They placed the lei around her neck and a frangipani crown on her head. They put bangles around her wrists and the ukulele in her arms. 'Now you are a real island princess.' Based on the experiences of the author's mother, The Old Frangipani Tree at Flying Fish Point is a touching story that follows a young girl named Faith, whose family cannot afford a fancy dress costume for the school's carnival. Luckily, her family have just the costume in mind. With breathtaking illustrations that boldly draw us in to the narrative, The Old Frangipani Tree at Flying Fish Point is a delightful story for early to middle readers about courage, community and creativity.
Mrs White and the Red Desert
Author: Josie Boyle
Publisher: Magabala Books
ISBN: 1925360598
Category : Juvenile Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 38
Book Description
Age range 3 to 8 When a group of desert children invite their school teacher, Mrs White, home for dinner to show her why their homework is always grubby, no-one expects what is to come! They are happily showing Mrs White their higgledy piggledy garden when suddenly a big red sand storm comes billowing over the hill. Sand and spinifex whips at their legs and flies at their heads. They can hardly see through the storm. They hurry back home, only to discover that everything is now red. Their lovely clean house is covered in red dust. The beds are red. The washing on the line is red. The table is red. Their delicious dinner is red and ruined. And Mrs White’s clean white dress has turned into a dusty red dress. Now Mrs White finally knows why the children’s homework is always so grubby!
Publisher: Magabala Books
ISBN: 1925360598
Category : Juvenile Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 38
Book Description
Age range 3 to 8 When a group of desert children invite their school teacher, Mrs White, home for dinner to show her why their homework is always grubby, no-one expects what is to come! They are happily showing Mrs White their higgledy piggledy garden when suddenly a big red sand storm comes billowing over the hill. Sand and spinifex whips at their legs and flies at their heads. They can hardly see through the storm. They hurry back home, only to discover that everything is now red. Their lovely clean house is covered in red dust. The beds are red. The washing on the line is red. The table is red. Their delicious dinner is red and ruined. And Mrs White’s clean white dress has turned into a dusty red dress. Now Mrs White finally knows why the children’s homework is always so grubby!
Book Review Index - 2009 Cumulation
Author: Dana Ferguson
Publisher: Book Review Index Cumulation
ISBN: 9781414419121
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
Languages : en
Pages : 1304
Book Description
Book Review Index provides quick access to reviews of books, periodicals, books on tape and electronic media representing a wide range of popular, academic and professional interests. The up-to-date coverage, wide scope and inclusion of citations for both newly published and older materials make Book Review Index an exceptionally useful reference tool. More than 600 publications are indexed, including journals and national general interest publications and newspapers. Book Review Index is available in a three-issue subscription covering the current year or as an annual cumulation covering the past year.
Publisher: Book Review Index Cumulation
ISBN: 9781414419121
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
Languages : en
Pages : 1304
Book Description
Book Review Index provides quick access to reviews of books, periodicals, books on tape and electronic media representing a wide range of popular, academic and professional interests. The up-to-date coverage, wide scope and inclusion of citations for both newly published and older materials make Book Review Index an exceptionally useful reference tool. More than 600 publications are indexed, including journals and national general interest publications and newspapers. Book Review Index is available in a three-issue subscription covering the current year or as an annual cumulation covering the past year.
Stolen Girl
Author: Trina Saffioti
Publisher:
ISBN: 9781921248252
Category : Aboriginal Australians
Languages : en
Pages : 36
Book Description
A fictionalised account of the now universally known story of the Stolen Generation and tells of an Aboriginal girl taken from her family and sent to a children's home.
Publisher:
ISBN: 9781921248252
Category : Aboriginal Australians
Languages : en
Pages : 36
Book Description
A fictionalised account of the now universally known story of the Stolen Generation and tells of an Aboriginal girl taken from her family and sent to a children's home.
Two Mates
Author: Melanie Prewett
Publisher:
ISBN: 9781921248450
Category : Children with disabilities
Languages : en
Pages : 32
Book Description
Two Mates is the true story of the special mateship between two young boys who have grown up together in the coastal town of Broome in Australia's north-west. Jack is Indigenous and Raf is a non- Indigenous boy who has spina bifida. Jack and Raf take the reader on a journey of their daily life growing up in Broome. Together they search for hermit crabs, go hunting for barni, fish for salmon, explore the markets, eat satays and dress up as superheros. The fact that Raf is in a wheelchair is only revealed at the end of the story.
Publisher:
ISBN: 9781921248450
Category : Children with disabilities
Languages : en
Pages : 32
Book Description
Two Mates is the true story of the special mateship between two young boys who have grown up together in the coastal town of Broome in Australia's north-west. Jack is Indigenous and Raf is a non- Indigenous boy who has spina bifida. Jack and Raf take the reader on a journey of their daily life growing up in Broome. Together they search for hermit crabs, go hunting for barni, fish for salmon, explore the markets, eat satays and dress up as superheros. The fact that Raf is in a wheelchair is only revealed at the end of the story.
The Grumpy Lighthouse Keeper
Author: Terrizita Corpus
Publisher:
ISBN: 9781925360189
Category : Children's stories
Languages : en
Pages : 0
Book Description
This delightful story takes place on a stormy wet-season night at the Broome lighthouse. Meet Cassius the hermit crab, Jacob the jellyfish, Bruce the bluebone and more sea creatures as they head down the beach and race up the lighthouse staircase to escape a wild storm - all while the lighthouse keeper is out checking the lamp for passing ships. When he discovers his bed has been taken over by slimy sea creatures, he is very grumpy. With new design complemented by beautiful illustrations, this new edition brings to life the excitement of the storm and introduces sea creatures that live in this magical part of the world - the hermit crab, jellyfish, bluebone fish, octopus and turtle. The Grumpy Lighthouse Keeper is inspired by the iconic Broome lighthouse and the remains of the old lighthouse keeper's house that sits on the edge of the world-renowned Cable Beach.
Publisher:
ISBN: 9781925360189
Category : Children's stories
Languages : en
Pages : 0
Book Description
This delightful story takes place on a stormy wet-season night at the Broome lighthouse. Meet Cassius the hermit crab, Jacob the jellyfish, Bruce the bluebone and more sea creatures as they head down the beach and race up the lighthouse staircase to escape a wild storm - all while the lighthouse keeper is out checking the lamp for passing ships. When he discovers his bed has been taken over by slimy sea creatures, he is very grumpy. With new design complemented by beautiful illustrations, this new edition brings to life the excitement of the storm and introduces sea creatures that live in this magical part of the world - the hermit crab, jellyfish, bluebone fish, octopus and turtle. The Grumpy Lighthouse Keeper is inspired by the iconic Broome lighthouse and the remains of the old lighthouse keeper's house that sits on the edge of the world-renowned Cable Beach.
Fishing With Tardelli
Author: Neil Besner
Publisher: ECW Press
ISBN: 1773059408
Category : Biography & Autobiography
Languages : en
Pages : 144
Book Description
A literary meditation on memory, time, love, and loss Fishing With Tardelli contemplates the relations among four parents — mother, father, stepfather, and a Brazilian fishing companion — and the author. Over marriages and remarriages, fathers and mothers become stepfathers and stepmothers, and brothers gain and lose stepbrothers and half-brothers, sisters and half-sisters across two continents. The various homes become part of Besner’s internal geography; memory, dream, story, fable become permeable layers folded over bald facts baldly stated. Beginning with an older man’s recollections of himself as a young teenager fishing with Tardelli in the bay in Rio de Janeiro, the memoir reflects on time lost and time regained. The narration ranges across the mid-’40s in Montreal, where two couples marry, divorce, and remarry in a new configuration; proceeds to Rio de Janeiro in the mid-’50s, when one of these newly formed families emigrates; and returns to Montreal in the late ’60s and early ’70s. After a 50-year interlude, Besner returns from Western Canada to the pandemic moment in Toronto.
Publisher: ECW Press
ISBN: 1773059408
Category : Biography & Autobiography
Languages : en
Pages : 144
Book Description
A literary meditation on memory, time, love, and loss Fishing With Tardelli contemplates the relations among four parents — mother, father, stepfather, and a Brazilian fishing companion — and the author. Over marriages and remarriages, fathers and mothers become stepfathers and stepmothers, and brothers gain and lose stepbrothers and half-brothers, sisters and half-sisters across two continents. The various homes become part of Besner’s internal geography; memory, dream, story, fable become permeable layers folded over bald facts baldly stated. Beginning with an older man’s recollections of himself as a young teenager fishing with Tardelli in the bay in Rio de Janeiro, the memoir reflects on time lost and time regained. The narration ranges across the mid-’40s in Montreal, where two couples marry, divorce, and remarry in a new configuration; proceeds to Rio de Janeiro in the mid-’50s, when one of these newly formed families emigrates; and returns to Montreal in the late ’60s and early ’70s. After a 50-year interlude, Besner returns from Western Canada to the pandemic moment in Toronto.
Anna Carries Water
Author: Olive Senior
Publisher:
ISBN: 9781896580609
Category : Juvenile Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 40
Book Description
When Anna and her family fetch water from the spring, she wonders when she will learn to carry it on her head like her brothers and sisters.
Publisher:
ISBN: 9781896580609
Category : Juvenile Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 40
Book Description
When Anna and her family fetch water from the spring, she wonders when she will learn to carry it on her head like her brothers and sisters.
Golden Boy
Author: Martin Booth
Publisher: Macmillan
ISBN: 9780312426262
Category : Biography & Autobiography
Languages : en
Pages : 354
Book Description
The last work of the internationally known, Booker-shortlisted writer is a memoir of growing up in 1950s Hong Kong.
Publisher: Macmillan
ISBN: 9780312426262
Category : Biography & Autobiography
Languages : en
Pages : 354
Book Description
The last work of the internationally known, Booker-shortlisted writer is a memoir of growing up in 1950s Hong Kong.
Silent One
Author: Joy Cowley
Publisher: Penguin Random House New Zealand Limited
ISBN: 174228843X
Category : Juvenile Nonfiction
Languages : en
Pages : 96
Book Description
The Silent One is Jonasi, sent from the sea as a baby to grow up in an isolated Pacific village. Separated from the villagers by his silence and their prejudices, Jonasi finds solace in his underwater world where he develops a special relationship with a huge white turtle. However, the superstitious villagers see both Jonasi and the turtle as evil spirits. A series of natural disasters and a struggle for leadership within the village sweep Jonasi toward his strange destiny.
Publisher: Penguin Random House New Zealand Limited
ISBN: 174228843X
Category : Juvenile Nonfiction
Languages : en
Pages : 96
Book Description
The Silent One is Jonasi, sent from the sea as a baby to grow up in an isolated Pacific village. Separated from the villagers by his silence and their prejudices, Jonasi finds solace in his underwater world where he develops a special relationship with a huge white turtle. However, the superstitious villagers see both Jonasi and the turtle as evil spirits. A series of natural disasters and a struggle for leadership within the village sweep Jonasi toward his strange destiny.