Download or read book By the Billabong written by Maura Finn and published by . This book was released on 2022-01-25 with total page 12 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A wisdom of wombats,A passel of possums,A cluster of spiders knitting socks . . .Who else might you meet on a trip to the billabong?Find out in this delightful romp through a much-loved Australian landscape.

Download or read book Babies at the Billabong written by Maura Finn and published by . This book was released on 2022 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Echidna puggles drumming, cockatoo chicks eating cake, green tree froglets tap dancing... What else might you see on a trip to the billabong? Find out in this energetic and playful afternoon adventure in the Australian landscape.

Download or read book Stories from the Billabong written by James Vance Marshall and published by Frances Lincoln Children's Books. This book was released on 2010-08-24 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: 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.

Download or read book At the Billabong written by Debbie Austin and published by . This book was released on 2009 with total page 14 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This third Indigenous First Discovery Book from Discovery Press uses Aboriginal symbols and clever book design to tell a simple educational story for babies and toddlers. Artist Debbie Austin depicts the animals of the Australian bush as they go to the billabong on a hot day. Each page has the centre cut out so that children can always see the shiny reflective billabong at the end. All Aboriginal symbols used here are familiar to young readers, as they appeared in Debbie's last two books, 'Animals' and 'People and Places', released last year. Both books were well-received by parents and educators, making 'At the Billabong' a highly anticipated early-education title. Babies AND their parents will love this beautiful baby board book. 'At the Billabong' is available 1 December 2009. The cover image above is unfinished; the printer is adding metallic blue paint to the centre circle, to represent the billabong. The image represents (clockwise from the top left corner) kangaroos, people, emus and dingos all travelling to the billabong for a cool drink. All children love learning to draw pictures and tell their own stories using these traditional Aboriginal symbols.

Download or read book Brilliant Brown Babies written by Desiree Williams and published by . This book was released on 2020-03-20 with total page 38 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Brilliant brown babies is a picture book showcasing how special and beautiful it is to be a child of color. This book uses simple pictures and language to convey pride in the rich culture that our brilliant brown babies have! Children of all races can engage in the celebration of diversity!

Download or read book Tales from the Bush written by Jane Massam and published by . This book was released on 2017-02 with total page 24 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Join Snugglepot and Cuddlepie for some wonderful adventures in the Australian bush. Fall in love with May Gibbs' classic characters as they go camping, make new friends and much more!

Download or read book Silly Birds written by Gregg Dreise and published by . This book was released on 2014 with total page 32 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Age range 5 to 8: In this humble, charming and humorous morality tale, Maliyan is a proud eagle who always looks, listens and sees things from a long way away. One day he meets the turkey Wagun, who is a silly bird, and together these two new friends begin to do silly-bird things. The Elders and Maliyan's parents become very disappointed and soon the local billabong becomes a mess. The silly birds do not care for anyone and seem to have eaten all the food. Maliyan begins to see the error of his ways and tries to talk to Wagun and the other birds about their actions. No one listens. So Maliyan flies away and begins the journey of listening again. Maliyan soon becomes a proud leader and all the silly birds begin to follow his example. They all help clean up the messes they have made. All except one ... In this quintessential Australian fable, Silly Birds combines richly textured and striking illustrations of Australian animals with the gentle humour of an Aussie truism that it is hard to soar like an eagle when you are, in fact, surrounded by turkeys.

Download or read book Small Things Like These written by Claire Keegan and published by Grove Press. This book was released on 2021-11-30 with total page 79 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A New York Times Bestseller • Shortlisted for the 2022 Booker Prize One of the New York Times's 100 Best Books of the 21st Century "A hypnotic and electrifying Irish tale that transcends country, transcends time." —Lily King, New York Times bestselling author of Writers & Lovers Small Things Like These is award-winning author Claire Keegan's landmark new novel, a tale of one man's courage and a remarkable portrait of love and family It is 1985 in a small Irish town. During the weeks leading up to Christmas, Bill Furlong, a coal merchant and family man faces into his busiest season. Early one morning, while delivering an order to the local convent, Bill makes a discovery which forces him to confront both his past and the complicit silences of a town controlled by the church. An international bestseller, Small Things Like These is a deeply affecting story of hope, quiet heroism, and empathy from one of our most critically lauded and iconic writers.

Download or read book My Farm written by Alison Lester and published by Houghton Mifflin Harcourt. This book was released on 1999-03-29 with total page 44 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: An affectionate and funny recollection of a memorable year on an Australian farm. This unusual picture book gives a vivid glimpse of life on the land.

Download or read book Gorgeous Girl written by Mary K. Pershall and published by Random House Australia. This book was released on 2018-08-20 with total page 386 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: 'The only way to comprehend this tragic story of mine is to write it.' On the 10th of February 2017, there was a sentencing hearing for murder in the Victorian Supreme Court. The young woman in the dock, who sat quietly with her hands in her lap, had perfect skin and light-brown hair tied back as neatly as a private school prefect's. When the judge asked her to confirm her plea, the young woman answered in a clear and polite voice. 'Guilty, your Honour.' That killer is Mary K. Pershall's beloved daughter Anna. She is twenty-eight years old, tall and beautiful, with an effervescent wit and a university degree in psychology. She also hears the voices of demons. After Anna finished uni, she just could not meet the demands of adulthood, and the voices became overwhelming. She attempted to silence them with alcohol and weed, with the abuse of her prescribed medication, and with ice. But the evil howling would not stop. Award-winning author Mary K. Pershall brings a unique and insightful perspective to a story that is at once devastating and uplifting, and proves that a mother's love - even in its darkest hour - can shed light and provide hope to families in crisis.

Download or read book The Nourishing Traditions Cookbook for Children written by Suzanne Gross and published by New Trends Publishing. This book was released on 2015-05-15 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The long awaited children s version of the best-selling cookbook Nourishing Traditions."

Download or read book Tiny Story written by May Gibbs and published by . This book was released on 1992 with total page 62 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Illustrated miniature book that contains the classic Australian children's stories, TFlannel Flowers & Other Bush Babies' (first published in 1921) and TGum-Blossom Babies' and TGum-Nut Babies' (both first published in 1916).

Download or read book Back to Billabong written by Mary Grant Bruce and published by DigiCat. This book was released on 2022-08-15 with total page 206 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: DigiCat Publishing presents to you this special edition of "Back to Billabong" 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.

Download or read book The Heart written by Maylis de Kerangal and published by Farrar, Straus and Giroux. This book was released on 2016-02-09 with total page 256 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: One of Bill Gates' "Five Best Summer Reads" The basis for the critically-acclaimed film, Heal the Living, directed by Katell Quillévéré and starring Tahar Rahim and Emmanuelle Seigner Albertine Prize Finalist Winner of the Wellcome Book Prize and the French-American Foundation Translation Prize Just before dawn on a Sunday morning, three teenage boys go surfing. While driving home exhausted, the boys are involved in a fatal car accident on a deserted road. Two of the boys are wearing seat belts; one goes through the windshield. The doctors declare him brain-dead shortly after arriving at the hospital, but his heart is still beating. The Heart takes place over the twenty-four hours surrounding the resulting heart transplant, as life is taken from a young man and given to a woman close to death. In gorgeous, ruminative prose, it examines the deepest feelings of everyone involved as they navigate decisions of life and death. As stylistically audacious as it is emotionally explosive, The Heart mesmerized readers in France, where it has been hailed as the breakthrough work of a new literary star. With the precision of a surgeon and the language of a poet, de Kerangal has made a major contribution to both medicine and literature with an epic tale of grief, hope, and survival.

Download or read book My Happy Sad Mummy written by Michelle Vasiliu and published by . This book was released on 2015-05-01 with total page 42 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "Sometimes Mummy has happy days, where she talks and laughs all day long. Sometimes Mummy is sad. She cries all day and stays in bed. Sometimes she's so sad she has to go to hospital." The symptoms of a mental illness can be challenging enough for adults to understand and live with. For a child whose parent lives with bipolar disorder, witnessing and experiencing the highs and lows that this particular mental illness brings with it can be very difficult for a child to process. 'My Happy Sad Mummy' provides both a starting point; for the necessary dialogue that will lead the child to a clearer awareness and understanding of their parent's illness, as well as comfort; to know that their experience is a shared one. "I strongly recommend 'My Happy Sad Mummy' - I have not seen anything of its like before." - Professor Philip Mitchell (AM, Scientia Professor, Head of the School of Psychiatry, University of New South Wales and Director of the Black Dog Institute) "Author Michelle's personal journey of living these experiences suffuses the book with meaning and a gentle humour, which will provide families with wonderful opportunities for conversation about making sense of the situation." - Rose Cuff (Executive Director, Satellite Foundation. Victorian FaPMI Coordinator - Families where a Parent has a Mental Illness).

Download or read book Ngangk Waangening written by Rhonda Marriot and published by Fremantle Press. This book was released on 2021-08-03 with total page 178 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This is a unique book of Noongar and Yaatji mothers' accounts of their birthing experiences. These Elder and Senior women have generously shared their stories as a legacy for their families and communities, and as an educational tool for midwives.

Download or read book Mexican WhiteBoy written by Matt de la Peña and published by Delacorte Press. This book was released on 2008-08-12 with total page 258 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Newbery Award-winning and New York Times bestselling author Matt de la Peña's Mexican WhiteBoy is a story of friendship, acceptance, and the struggle to find your identity in a world of definitions. Danny's tall and skinny. Even though he’s not built, his arms are long enough to give his pitch a power so fierce any college scout would sign him on the spot. Ninety-five mile an hour fastball, but the boy’s not even on a team. Every time he gets up on the mound he loses it. But at his private school, they don’t expect much else from him. Danny’ s brown. Half-Mexican brown. And growing up in San Diego that close to the border means everyone else knows exactly who he is before he even opens his mouth. Before they find out he can’t speak Spanish, and before they realize his mom has blond hair and blue eyes, they’ve got him pegged. But it works the other way too. And Danny’s convinced it’s his whiteness that sent his father back to Mexico. That’s why he’s spending the summer with his dad’s family. Only, to find himself, he may just have to face the demons he refuses to see--the demons that are right in front of his face. And open up to a friendship he never saw coming. Matt de la Peña's critically acclaimed novel is an intimate and moving story that offers hope to those who least expect it. "[A] first-rate exploration of self-identity."-SLJ "Unique in its gritty realism and honest portrayal of the complexities of life for inner-city teens...De la Peña poignantly conveys the message that, despite obstacles, you must believe in yourself and shape your own future."-The Horn Book Magazine "The baseball scenes...sizzle like Danny's fastball...Danny's struggle to find his place will speak strongly to all teens, but especially to those of mixed race."-Booklist "De la Peña blends sports and street together in a satisfying search for personal identity."-Kirkus Reviews "Mexican WhiteBoy...shows that no matter what obstacles you face, you can still reach your dreams with a positive attitude. This is more than a book about a baseball player--this is a book about life."-Curtis Granderson, New York Mets outfielder An ALA-YALSA Top Ten Best Book for Young Adults A Junior Library Guild Selection