Meet Banjo Paterson

Meet Banjo Paterson
Author: Kristin Weidenbach
Publisher: Random House Australia
Total Pages: 20
Release: 2016-11
Genre: Juvenile Nonfiction
ISBN: 0857985876

Weary Dunlop was an Australian Army surgeon during World War II. This is the story of how Weary's bravery and compassion helped to save the lives and bolster the spirits of fellow prisoners of war on the Thai-Burma Railway.

Meet... Weary Dunlop

Meet... Weary Dunlop
Author: Claire Saxby
Publisher: Random House Australia
Total Pages: 40
Release: 2015-06-01
Genre: Juvenile Nonfiction
ISBN: 0857985884

A picture book series about the extraordinary men and women who have shaped Australia's history, including World War II hero Sir Edward 'Weary' Dunlop. Sir Edward ‘Weary’ Dunlop was an Australian Army surgeon during World War II. This is the story of how Weary’s bravery and compassion helped to save the lives and bolster the spirits of fellow prisoners of war on the Thai–Burma Railway. From Ned Kelly to Saint Mary MacKillop, Captain Cook to Banjo Paterson, the Meet ... series of picture books tells the exciting stories of the men and women who have shaped Australia’s history.

Reading Down Under

Reading Down Under
Author: Amit Sarwal
Publisher: SSS Publications
Total Pages: 88
Release: 2009
Genre: Australia
ISBN: 8190228218

The Englishness of English literature had been expressed in Chaucer, Shakespeare, Wordsworth and Sir Walter Scott, those writers whose works seemed best to embody the spirit of the place or the spirit of its folk. In what writers or works would the Australianness of Australian literature be discovered? (David Carter 1997)--------This first literary Reader on Australian studies from India not only investigates this central question but explores many other facets of Australian literature and especially Australian cross-cultural relationships with India and Asia. Taking a broad view of what Australian literature is, this Reader explores the dimensions of Australian literature (national, Aboriginal, multicultural, ecocritical, postcolonial, modernist, comparative, feminist, and popular) in its varied genres of drama, poetry, autobiography, explorers' journals, short stories, literature of war, travel writing, Anglo-Indian fiction, diasporic writing, mainstream novel, nature writing, children's literature, romance, science fiction, gothic literature, horror, crime fiction, queer writing, and humour. Each paper in this Reader presents different ways of "reading down under" and "performing Australianness." Juxtaposing the varied critical perspectives of nearly 60 critics this Reader hopes to create a constructive dialogue in the fight against the dominance of an Anglo-American academic approach.

Meet... the ANZACs

Meet... the ANZACs
Author: Claire Saxby
Publisher: Random House Australia
Total Pages: 42
Release: 2014-02-03
Genre: Juvenile Nonfiction
ISBN: 0857981943

A picture book series about the extraordinary men and women who have shaped Australia's history, including our brave Anzac soldiers. Anzac stands for Australian and New Zealand Army Corps. It is the name given to the Australian and New Zealand troops who landed at Gallipoli in World War I. The name is now a symbol of bravery and mateship. From Ned Kelly to Saint Mary MacKillop; Captain Cook to Douglas Mawson, the Meet ... series of picture books tells the exciting stories of the men and women who have shaped Australia's history.

Meet Nancy Bird Walton

Meet Nancy Bird Walton
Author: Grace Atwood
Publisher: Random House Australia
Total Pages: 40
Release: 2014
Genre: Biography & Autobiography
ISBN: 0857983873

Nancy Bird Walton grew up during the golden age of aviation. By the time she was 13, Nancy knew she wanted to fly. This is the story of how Nancy began her career as Australia's first female commercial pilot.

Meet... Don Bradman

Meet... Don Bradman
Author: Coral Vass
Publisher: Random House Australia
Total Pages: 42
Release: 2016-04-18
Genre: Juvenile Nonfiction
ISBN: 1925324915

A picture book series about the extraordinary men and women who have shaped Australia’s history, including cricket’s greatest ever batsman, Sir Donald Bradman. Don Bradman was Australia’s greatest cricketer. This is the story of how he first came to play for Australia, and how his record-breaking feats in the Ashes series became a source of pride and hope during the hard years of the Great Depression. From Ned Kelly to Saint Mary MacKillop; Captain Cook to Banjo Paterson, the Meet ... series of picture books tells the exciting stories of the men and women who have shaped Australia's history.

Meet Sidney Nolan

Meet Sidney Nolan
Author: Yvonne Mes
Publisher: Random House Australia
Total Pages: 20
Release: 2016-08
Genre: Juvenile Nonfiction
ISBN: 0857985906

Sidney Nolan was one of Australia's most renowned artists. This is the story of how Sidney came to create his iconic Ned Kelly paintings.

The Changi Brownlow

The Changi Brownlow
Author: Roland Perry
Publisher: Hachette Australia
Total Pages: 297
Release: 2012-07-31
Genre: History
ISBN: 0733627358

This is the moving, powerful and surprising story of a group of Australian POWs who organise an Australian Rules Football competition under the worst conditions imaginable - inside Changi prison. After Singapore falls to the Japanese early in 1942, 70 000 prisoners including 15 000 Australians, are held as POWs at the notorious Changi prison, Singapore. To amuse themselves and fellow inmates, a group of sportsmen led by the indefatigable and popular `Chicken? Smallhorn, created an Australian Football League, complete with tribunal, selection panel, umpires and coaches. The final game of the one and only season was between `Victoria? and the `Rest of Australia?, which attracted 10 000 spectators, and a unique Brownlow Medal was awarded in this unlikely setting under the curious gaze of Japanese prison guards. Meet the main characters behind this spectacle: Peter Chitty, the farm hand from Snowy River country with unfathomable physical and mental fortitude, and one of eight in his immediate family who volunteered to fight and serve in WW2; `Chicken? Smallhorn, the Brownlow-medal winning little man with the huge heart; and `Weary? Dunlop, the courageous doctor, who cares for the POWs as they endure malnutrition, disease and often inhuman treatment. Changi Brownlow is a story of courage and the invincibility of the human spirit, and highlights not only the Australian love of sport, but its power to offer consolation in times of extreme hardship.

In Flanders Fields

In Flanders Fields
Author: Norman Jorgensen
Publisher: Fremantle Press
Total Pages: 39
Release: 2015-01-01
Genre: Juvenile Fiction
ISBN: 1925162605

An eloquent counterpoint to the senselessness and inhumanity of war, In Flanders Fields tells the story of a young homesick World War I soldier who risks his life to cross the no-man's-land and rescue a robin caught in the barbed wire that separates the opposing forces.