Billabong's Daughter

Billabong's Daughter
Author: Mary Grant Bruce
Publisher:
Total Pages: 317
Release: 1992
Genre: Country life
ISBN: 9780207175169

Story for older children following the adventures of Wally as he attempts to prove his suspicions of skulduggery around his family's property. Eighth in the popular TBillabong' series of 15 novels, first published between 1910 and 1942. This new edition includes an afterword by Barbara Ker Wilson, who also edited the books to remove aspects that may offend modern readers, such as racism.

Billabong's Daughter

Billabong's Daughter
Author: Mary Grant Bruce
Publisher: DigiCat
Total Pages: 224
Release: 2022-08-01
Genre: Fiction
ISBN:

DigiCat Publishing presents to you this special edition of "Billabong's Daughter" by Mary Grant Bruce. DigiCat Publishing considers every written word to be a legacy of humankind. Every DigiCat book has been carefully reproduced for republishing in a new modern format. The books are available in print, as well as ebooks. DigiCat hopes you will treat this work with the acknowledgment and passion it deserves as a classic of world literature.

Stories from the Billabong

Stories from the Billabong
Author: James Vance Marshall
Publisher: Frances Lincoln Children's Books
Total Pages: 0
Release: 2010-08-24
Genre: Juvenile Fiction
ISBN: 9781847801241

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
Author: Mary Grant Bruce
Publisher: Rare Treasure Editions
Total Pages: 181
Release: 2021-11-06T19:17:00Z
Genre: Fiction
ISBN: 1774643383

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
Author: Ros Moriarty
Publisher: Allen & Unwin
Total Pages: 26
Release: 2015-06-24
Genre: Juvenile Fiction
ISBN: 1925267652

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.

Wombat Walkabout

Wombat Walkabout
Author: Carol Diggory Shields
Publisher: Penguin
Total Pages: 33
Release: 2009
Genre: Juvenile Nonfiction
ISBN: 0525478655

Rhyming text follows six little wombats on walkabout and a hungry dingo following, envisioning them as his lunch until the wombats turn the tables on him.

A Little Bush Maid 

A Little Bush Maid 
Author: Mary Grant Bruce
Publisher: BEYOND BOOKS HUB
Total Pages: 175
Release: 2023-07-15
Genre: Art
ISBN:

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.

Wombat Stew

Wombat Stew
Author: Marcia Kay Vaughan
Publisher: Scholastic Press
Total Pages: 0
Release: 2024
Genre: Animals
ISBN: 9781761290688

One day, on the banks of a billabong, a very clever dingo caught a wombat... and decided to make... Wombat stew, Wombat stew, Gooey, brewy, Yummy, chewy, Wombat stew! 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 stew, and the result is something the dingo will never forget!

A Waltz for Matilda (The Matilda Saga, #1)

A Waltz for Matilda (The Matilda Saga, #1)
Author: Jackie French
Publisher: HarperCollins Australia
Total Pages: 36
Release: 2010-12-01
Genre: Juvenile Fiction
ISBN: 0730493962

The story behind Banjo Paterson's iconic Australian song. 'Once a jolly swagman camped by a Billabong Under the shade of a Coolibah tree And he sang as he watched and waited till his Billy boiled You'll come a-waltzing Matilda with me...' In 1894, twelve-year-old Matilda flees the city slums to find her unknown father and his farm. But drought grips the land, and the shearers are on strike. Her father has turned swaggie and he's wanted by the troopers. In front of his terrified daughter, he makes a stand against them, defiant to the last. 'You'll never catch me alive, said he...' Set against a backdrop of bushfire, flood, war and jubilation, this is the story of one girl's journey towards independence. It is also the story of others who had no vote and very little but their dreams. Drawing on the well-known poem by A.B. Paterson and from events rooted in actual history, this is the untold story behind Australia's early years as an emerging nation. PRAISE 'Jackie French has a passion for history, and an enviable ability to weave the fascinating minutiae of everyday life into a good story.' -- Magpies Magazine