Author: James Vance Marshall
Publisher: Frances Lincoln Children's Books
ISBN: 9781847801241
Category : Juvenile Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 0
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.
Stories from the Billabong
Author: James Vance Marshall
Publisher: Frances Lincoln Children's Books
ISBN: 9781847801241
Category : Juvenile Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 0
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.
Publisher: Frances Lincoln Children's Books
ISBN: 9781847801241
Category : Juvenile Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 0
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.
By the Billabong
Author: Maura Finn
Publisher:
ISBN: 9781922626615
Category : Animals
Languages : en
Pages : 12
Book Description
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.
Publisher:
ISBN: 9781922626615
Category : Animals
Languages : en
Pages : 12
Book Description
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.
Billabong Riders
Author: Mary Grant Bruce
Publisher: Rare Treasure Editions
ISBN: 1774643383
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 181
Book Description
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...
Publisher: Rare Treasure Editions
ISBN: 1774643383
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 181
Book Description
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...
Walkabout
Author: James Vance Marshall
Publisher: Penguin UK
ISBN: 0141957816
Category : Juvenile Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 137
Book Description
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.
Publisher: Penguin UK
ISBN: 0141957816
Category : Juvenile Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 137
Book Description
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.
Animals Around the Billabong
Author: Mike Ingram
Publisher:
ISBN: 9780992290573
Category : Aboriginal Australians
Languages : en
Pages : 16
Book Description
Publisher:
ISBN: 9780992290573
Category : Aboriginal Australians
Languages : en
Pages : 16
Book Description
Norah of Billabong
Author: Mary Grant Bruce
Publisher:
ISBN: 9780207191084
Category : Children's stories
Languages : en
Pages : 270
Book Description
Publisher:
ISBN: 9780207191084
Category : Children's stories
Languages : en
Pages : 270
Book Description
Camping by a Billabong
Author: Robert French
Publisher: Black Wattle Press
ISBN:
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 138
Book Description
Drawing from a wide variety of sources Camping by a Billabong brings to life the ancestors of today's gay men and lesbians.
Publisher: Black Wattle Press
ISBN:
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 138
Book Description
Drawing from a wide variety of sources Camping by a Billabong brings to life the ancestors of today's gay men and lesbians.
Wombat Stew
Author: Marcia Kay Vaughan
Publisher: Scholastic Press
ISBN: 9781743622575
Category : Animals
Languages : en
Pages : 32
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!
Publisher: Scholastic Press
ISBN: 9781743622575
Category : Animals
Languages : en
Pages : 32
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!
Splosh for the Billabong
Author: Ros Moriarty
Publisher: Allen & Unwin
ISBN: 1925267652
Category : Juvenile Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 26
Book Description
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.
Publisher: Allen & Unwin
ISBN: 1925267652
Category : Juvenile Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 26
Book Description
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.
Bunyip in the Billibong
Author:
Publisher:
ISBN: 9781741696066
Category : Animals, Mythical
Languages : en
Pages : 24
Book Description
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.
Publisher:
ISBN: 9781741696066
Category : Animals, Mythical
Languages : en
Pages : 24
Book Description
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.