Dancing Brumby's Rainbow

Dancing Brumby's Rainbow
Author: Elyne Mitchell
Publisher:
Total Pages: 128
Release: 1998
Genre: Horses
ISBN: 9780207196737

The blue-roan dwarf foal, Choopa, was a natural dancer. Captured and trained as a Lippizaner horse, he escaped and made his way home to the high country of the Snowy Mountains.

Caging the Rainbow

Caging the Rainbow
Author: Francesca Merlan
Publisher: University of Hawaii Press
Total Pages: 296
Release: 1998-05-01
Genre: Social Science
ISBN: 0824861744

Caging the Rainbow explores the lives of Aborigines in the small regional town of Katherine, Northern Territory, Australia. Francesca Merlan combines ethnography and theory to grapple with issues surrounding the debate about the authenticity of contemporary cultural activity. Throughout, the vulnerability of Fourth World peoples to others' representations of them and the ethical problems this poses are kept in view.

Silver Brumby Echoing

Silver Brumby Echoing
Author: Elyne Mitchell
Publisher: HarperCollins Australia
Total Pages: 485
Release: 2013-10-01
Genre: Juvenile Fiction
ISBN: 1460700678

A further five Silver Brumby titles in one beautiful edition. tHE SILVER BRUMBY CENtENARY EDItION and SILVER BRUMBY KINGDOM contain the first eight titles in the Silver Brumby series. this third volume contains the final five titles: DANCING BRUMBY BRUMBIES OF tHE NIGHt DANCING BRUMBY'S RAINBOW tHE tHOUSANDtH BRUMBY WILD ECHOES RINGING SILVER BRUMBY ECHOING completes the much-loved Silver Brumby series. the first Silver Brumby book was published in 1958 and cemented Elyne Mitchell's reputation as one of Australia's best-loved children's authors. Countless numbers of children have enjoyed the story of thowra, the silver stallion who was king of the brumbies, and now a new generation of horse-lovers will be able to either discover or re-read these treasured classics that also includes Elyne Mitchell's final story WILD ECHOES RINGING.

Dancing Brumby

Dancing Brumby
Author: Elyne Mitchell
Publisher: HarperCollins Australia
Total Pages: 139
Release: 2012-10-01
Genre: Juvenile Fiction
ISBN: 1743097751

Choopa is a dancer. When he hears the music of the waltz streaming into the cold night air of the high mountains, he dances.Far below, a child's voice called: 'there's a tiny horse dancing on the pass.' the music grew louder again, and Choopa's blue and white legs and body waltzed above the Snowy River.And so the stories begin of the little blue roan foal with the strange, misshapen legs, who dances like an angel. Dandaloo fears for her little foal's safety, and with Son of Storm, Wingilla and Bri Bri, leads him up into the highest mountains, away from the threat of man. But one man, a man who trained Lippizaner horses at the Spanish riding school, will not give up his search for this unique foal who weaves a spell around all who see him dance.Ages 10+

Community

Community
Author: Hannah Lewi
Publisher:
Total Pages: 304
Release: 2010
Genre: Architecture and society
ISBN: 9781742230429

This book looks at the explosion of municipal buildings across Australia in the mid 20th century and the role these buildings played in developing a sense of community. This book shows how innovative, modern design helped to make modern Australia.

Waltzing the Wilarra

Waltzing the Wilarra
Author: David Milroy
Publisher:
Total Pages: 58
Release: 2011
Genre: Aboriginal Australians
ISBN: 9780868199092

It's 1940s post-war Perth. Against a backdrop of curfews, and the fear of arrest for consorting, White and Black manage to form their own club. Forty years on, as the club faces demolition, Charlie, Elsa and Fay meet once again to stage a musical reunion and protest in an attempt to save their old stomping ground.