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1 y separately published work icon The Castles of Tuhbowgule Haidi Willmot , Sydney : Weldon , 1992 Z1458987 1992 single work children's fiction historical fiction
1 y separately published work icon John O'Grady Classics John O'Grady , Sydney : Ure Smith , 1991 Z1310711 1991 selected work novel prose
1 1 y separately published work icon Australia Fair : Poems and Paintings Douglas Stewart (editor), Sydney : Ure Smith , 1974 Z392157 1974 anthology poetry
1 y separately published work icon Jack Earl : the life and art of a sailor Bruce Stannard , Sydney : Weldon , 1991 Z1456944 1991 single work biography
1 1 y separately published work icon The Backyard Eleanor Stodart , Sydney : Weldon , 1991 Z837708 1991 single work information book children's
1 y separately published work icon Banjo Paterson's Poems of the Bush A. B. Paterson , Knoxfield : J. M. Dent , 1987 Z502976 1987 selected work poetry
1 5 y separately published work icon Labourers in the Vineyard Colin Thiele , Adelaide : Rigby , 1970 Z223092 1970 single work novel
1 y separately published work icon Australian Gnomes Robert Ingpen , Adelaide : Rigby , 1979 Z999753 1979 single work children's fiction children's
1 7 y separately published work icon The Rim of the Morning : Six Stories Colin Thiele , Adelaide : Rigby , 1966 Z827972 1966 selected work children's fiction children's
2 6 y separately published work icon February Dragon Colin Thiele , Adelaide : Rigby , 1965 Z269337 1965 single work children's fiction children's

'The lives of three Australian children are cruelly affected when a bushfire known as the February Dragon sweeps across the countryside.'

Source: Blurb.
1 y separately published work icon Alice on the Line Doris Blackwell , Douglas Lockwood , Adelaide : Rigby , 1965 Z1372973 1965 single work autobiography
1 y separately published work icon Birds Eleanor Stodart , Sydney : Weldon , 1989 Z837702 1989 single work information book children's
1 y separately published work icon Biters and Stingers Eleanor Stodart , Sydney : Weldon , 1989 Z837699 1989 single work information book children's
1 38 y separately published work icon They're a Weird Mob Nino Culotta , Sydney : Ure Smith , 1957 Z54863 1957 single work novel humour (taught in 2 units)

'Who the hell’s Nino Culotta. That’s what you asked yourself when you first picked up this book, wasn’t it? Well I’m Nino Culotta. My father baptised me Giovanni—John—well Giovannino is like Johnny, and Nino is an easier way of saying it. Or a lazier way, if you like.

'Just off the boat from Italy—the north—Nino Culotta arrives in Sydney. He thought he spoke English but he’s never heard anything like the language these Australians are speaking.

'They’re a Weird Mob is an hilarious snapshot of the immigrant experience in Menzies-era Australia, by a writer with a brilliant ear for the Australian way with words.' (Publication summary : Text Classics)
1 5 y separately published work icon Aussie English : an explanation of the Australian idiom John O'Grady , Sydney : Ure Smith , 1965 Z54649 1965 single work prose humour
13 7 y separately published work icon Blue Fin Colin Thiele , Adelaide : Rigby , 1969 Z918946 1969 single work children's fiction children's
— Appears in: Storm Boy ; Blue Fin 1982;

'Everyone in Port Lincoln thinks Snook Pascoe is a loser. People joke about his clumsiness; his teacher ridicules him and even his father, skipper of the tuna boat Blue Fin, is convinced that Snook will never amount to anything. After all, tuna fishing is a hard life for ‘real men’.

'When Snook is allowed, for once, to sail on Blue Fin he faces a terrifying disaster. A waterspout engulfs the ship, the deck is swept clean, the radio and rudder are wrecked, the engine is disabled, the crew is lost overboard and Snook’s father lies unconscious down below. Snook is on his own, far out to sea…' (Publication summary)
3 8 y separately published work icon The Sun on the Stubble Colin Thiele , Adelaide : Rigby , 1961 Z1057248 1961 single work children's fiction humour children's 'From the classic Australian children's author. Originally pubished in 1961, this is the coming-of-age story of a boy and his immigrant family in Depression-era Australia: Bruno Gunther lives on a farm in South Australia, where adventures spring up like wheat shoots. He has to cope with his stern dad, his mother and family--and trickiest of all is the new teacher in town, who is too alert for comfort. Then there are the local arguements, that all seem to flare up around complicated bits of machinery, like water pumps and cars. All they really need is a little help from Bruno to sort everything out . . . . For young readers ages 9-14. This novel and three others by Thiele inspired an Australian TV series, 'Sun on the Stubble': The Valley Between, Uncle Gustav's Ghosts & The Shadow on the Hills.' 

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1 9 y separately published work icon The Green Wind Thurley Fowler , Sydney : Weldon , 1985 Z794653 1985 single work children's fiction children's
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