The Complete Adventures of Snugglepot and Cuddlepie

10 best books like The Complete Adventures of Snugglepot and Cuddlepie (May Gibbs): Seven Little Australians, The Magic Pudding, Blinky Bill, Wombat Stew, The Nargun and the Stars, Storm Boy, Where the Forest Meets the Sea, Possum Magic, Clever Polly and the Stupid Wolf, A Lion in the Meadow

AuthorEthel Turner
ISBN1428041451
19th century Australia: Captain Woolcot, having lost his wife tragically young, remarried a much younger young woman to provide his six children with a new mother. Together, they had another child, making seven. The Captain felt it was necessary to run the family with army discipline, but his rules...
AuthorNorman Lindsay
ISBN0140300988
"Gentlemen," said the Judge, "I must remind you that we require a Review!"

"We don't needs no Review," replied Sam rudely, "We just needs to get away from them rascally Puddin'-thieves." And he pointed to the Wombat and the Possum, lurking in the comment thread, who looked up with a guilty start.

"Ignore...
AuthorDorothy Wall
Blinky Bill, the mischievous anthropomorphic koala, is well known around the world through the TV cartoon and movies, but the book version is a little darker. He runs away from home several times and constantly disobeys his mother, who of course beats him when she catches him - this would have been a normal...
AuthorMarcia K. Vaughan
ISBN0382092112
When I was in the book store very recently, I saw this book on the sale table and nostalgia just brimmed out of me. I showed it to my fiance and surprisingly he had never heard of the book. It's fantastic!! I NEED to go back and get it! It's just brilliant!

The story, moral, catchy rhyme and beautiful...
AuthorPatricia Wrightson
Few books had as profound an impact on me when I was growing up. This haunting tale of a lonely boy discovering an ancient stone Nargun, a creature straight from Aboriginal mythology, on his uncle's rural property had me spellbound. It still does. Wrightson, who died in 2010, was criticised for using...
AuthorColin Thiele
ISBN1741101875
Storm Boy likes to wander alone along the fierce deserted coast among the dunes that face out into the Southern Ocean. After a pelican mother is shot, Storm Boy rescues the three chicks, and nurses them back to health. He names them Mr Proud, Mr Ponder and Mr Percival. After he releases them, his favourite,...
Where the Forest Meets the Sea
AuthorJeannie Baker
ISBN0688063632
“My father says there has been a forest here for over a hundred million years,” Jeannie Baker's young protagonist tells us, and we follow him on a visit to this tropical rain forest in North Queensland, Australia.

We walk with him among the ancient trees as he pretends it is a time long ago,...
AuthorMem Fox
ISBN0152632247
A sparkling story steeped in Australian "magic" about Grandma Poss and little Hush, two possums from the country. Grandma works her magic so Hush is invisible, which allows the little possum to do lots of fun things (like slide down kangaroos' backs) and also stay hidden from snakes (which is why Grandma...
AuthorCatherine Storr
ISBN0140364633
This is an excellent book that tells the story of a very clever and witty little girl.

Polly is being tormented by a rather unpleasant wolf who constantly threatens to eat her! Polly, however, is far too clever for the silly wolf and devises a number of delicious ways to prevent him from eating...
AuthorMargaret Mahy
ISBN0140506306
I'm still new to Margaret Mahy and this was a present from the guys at work. One of her more famous stories I believe. It's a nice warm story about the nature of stories and imagination and where the line between them and reality can blur, especially in the mind of a child.

Jenny Williams creates...
AuthorMichael Foreman
This is a book that fearlessly exposes the hitherto unexposed connections between rubbish, the endless tons of domestic and commercial waste that we produce, and dinosaurs.

Essentially it is like that classic documentary One Million Years BC , but with better dinosaurs, more rubbish...
AuthorJenny Wagner
ISBN0140503064

Note: I didn't read this; I saw it on "Sammy's Story Shop."

This story is appalling! Rose, an old woman, and John Brown, her dog, live together happily, until one day the Midnight Cat begins lurking around the house. Rose likes the cat and makes overtures towards it, but John Brown feels threatened...
AuthorHumphrey Carpenter
ISBN0140316779
As a rule, magic carpets don't turn up in schools, but this is exactly what happens when Class Three’s new teacher flies in through the classroom window and lands on the floor with a bump.

Mr Majeika can behave just like any ordinary teacher if he wants to, but something has to be done about Hamish...
AuthorPaul Jennings
ISBN0140342133
How do you make a cane toad eat a frog? What happens when Linda copies herself? How do kids get parts in TV shows? What does Rabbit do when he is put on FAST FORWARD? What does it feel like to kiss another teenage actor? How do you write a script?

The answers will send you round the twist. This book includes...
AuthorOle Lund Kirkegaard
ISBN8700178012
Ole Lund Kirkegaard, 1940-1979, dansk forfatter af børnebøger, som han selv har illustreret.
Hans personer, bl.a. i debutromanen Lille Virgil (1967), er ofte opfindsomme, legende børn, som sammen med skæve eksistenser og folkepensionister står i et modsætningsforhold til samfundets...
AuthorRuth Park
ISBN0207167338
Wombat and his inseparable friends - the motherly and practical Mouse and Tabby Cat whose pride along with his tabby coat is always being ruffled - began their careers in a daily children's serial on ABC radio. Since then their delightful adventures in the popular series of Muddleheaded Wombat books...
AuthorNadia Wheatley
ISBN0916291545
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I have just spent a delightful forty-five minutes reading the children’s book “My Place”. Winner of many awards in its home continent of Australia, it is fully worthy of all of them. What a joy and pleasure it was!

The book spans two centuries, from 1788 to 1988, and covers the...
AuthorYoko Sano
ISBN4061272748
If you were concerned about The Big Ugly Monster and the Little Stone Rabbit , you'll be even more worried by this book. I must admit that I haven't yet tried reading it to a two year old, but here's my artist's impression of how it might play out:

ME: So what are we going to read tonight? How about...
AuthorRobin Klein
ISBN0195546490
The original and the best! And how fabulous was old Mrs. Bettany? I recall watching Penny Pollard on the ABC as much as reading her, too - can't recall if they were episodes on Kaboodle, or a series all of its own.

(Aha! Google to the rescue, as usual!)

Re-read May 2012 and I swear, I read...
AuthorJackie French
ISBN0207200750
From the award-winning duo of Diary of a Wombat comes another hilarious tale of a bush animal you'll never forget.

Josephine is a kangaroo - who loves to dance. Her little brother, Joey, tells her that kangaroos don't dance, they hop - but Josephine continues to point her toes and leap through...
Are We There Yet?: A Journey Around Australia
AuthorAlison Lester
ISBN1929132735
This has given me itchy feet - there is nothing like Australia for travel, it's a must do activity ... over a long period of time ... with the family ... just like Grace in Are We There Yet?

Grace and her family hitch up their pop up camper trailer and head off, literally around Australia. Alison Lester...
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