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Sheila Hawkins Sheila Hawkins i(A50665 works by)
Born: Established: 20 Aug 1906 Kalgoorlie, Goldfields area, Southeast Western Australia, Western Australia, ; Died: Ceased: 10 Jan 1999 London,
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England,
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United Kingdom (UK),
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Western Europe, Europe,
Gender: Female
Expatriate assertion
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1 y separately published work icon Airlift for Grandee Ruth Park , London New York (City) : Macmillan St. Martin's Press , 1964 Z838335 1964 single work children's fiction children's
1 y separately published work icon Three Men and a Girl Warren Chetham-Strode , Melbourne : Heinemann , 1958 Z1023271 1958 single work children's fiction children's
1 y separately published work icon Wish and the Magic Nut Peggy Barnard , Sheila Hawkins (illustrator), Sydney : John Sands , 1956 Z920821 1956 single work picture book children's
2 1 y separately published work icon Bush Holiday Stephen Fennimore , London : Heinemann , 1948 Z836709 1948 single work children's fiction children's adventure

Martin was a raw young 'Pommie' when he was sent out to stay with strangers in the Australian bush. But he soon caught on to the bush ways and the language.
1 y separately published work icon The Bear Brothers' Holiday Sheila Hawkins , London : Oxford University Press , 1942 Z843432 1942 single work picture book children's
1 y separately published work icon A Book of Fables : Adapted from Aesop Sheila Hawkins , Aesop , Harmondsworth : Penguin Books , 1942 Z843405 1942 selected work children's fiction children's fable
1 y separately published work icon The Bear Brothers Sheila Hawkins , Sheila Hawkins (illustrator), London : Oxford University Press , 1941 Z843429 1941 single work picture book children's
1 y separately published work icon Bruzzy Bear and the Cabin Boy Sheila Hawkins , New York (City) : Harper and Brothers , 1940 Z843414 1940 single work picture book children's
1 y separately published work icon The Panda and the Piccaninny Sheila Hawkins , London : Hamish Hamilton , 1939 Z843435 1939 single work picture book children's
1 y separately published work icon Little Gray Colo : The Adventures of a Koala Bear Sheila Hawkins , New York (City) : Grosset and Dunlap , 1939 Z843423 1939 single work children's fiction children's The story of a little koala who goes wandering, gets lost, is found by a little girl, is sold by the girl's brother to an airman, and then flies to England in a plane. Realising there is nothing suitable to eat in England, he ends up flying with the airman back to Australia and parachuting back to his home.
1 y separately published work icon Pepito Sheila Hawkins , London : Hamish Hamilton , 1938 Z843426 1938 single work children's fiction children's
1 y separately published work icon Appleby John, the Miller's Lad Sheila Hawkins , London : Hamish Hamilton , 1938 Z843411 1938 single work children's fiction children's
1 y separately published work icon Ena-Meena-Mina-Mo and Benjamin Sheila Hawkins , Sheila Hawkins (illustrator), London : Frederick Warne , 1935 Z843417 1935 single work children's fiction children's
1 y separately published work icon Black Tuppenny Margaret Brown , Sheila Hawkins (illustrator), London : Heinemann , 1932 Z1023282 1932 single work picture book children's A little girl goes to London, England, to visit the King at Buckingham Palace. A gust of wind lifts her over the wall and inside the palace door and she sees the king.
1 y separately published work icon Jean and the Shell Fairy Sheila Hawkins (illustrator), The Shell Company , 1920 Z1536758 1920 single work picture book children's

An advertising booklet by The Shell Company in which a young girl, Jean, meets a 'little fairy man playing a fiddle' [4]. He invites her to a royal banquet, at which she meets the Shell Fairy. In the course of the book, the production of energy and consumption of petroleum products is feted, through story, song and illustration: in the servicing of power to lights, vehicles, farms and the flying doctor service.

The Shell Fairy tells the palace guests 'all about the light and the other good things he has provided for the comfort of mankind'. With his companions, the Pennant Brownies, the Shell Gnomes, and the Elves of the Black Cross, he sings:

We brighten homes when daylight fails,
We speed the traveller on his way,
And - priceless dower - we give the power
That brings our bread from day to day.

By street or road or farthest track
We take our way and all is well:
And man, where'er his journeys lead
Shall find the symbol of the Shell. [13]
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