The Muddle-Headed Wombat
10 best books like The Muddle-Headed Wombat (Ruth Park): Seven Little Australians, The Magic Pudding, The Complete Adventures of Snugglepot and Cuddlepie, Blinky Bill, Down With Skool!, Circus Days Again, Misery Guts, Wombat Stew, The Nargun and the Stars, Where the Forest Meets the Sea
| Author | Ethel Turner |
| ISBN | 1428041451 |
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...
| Author | Norman Lindsay |
| ISBN | 0140300988 |
"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...
| Author | May Gibbs |
| ISBN | 0207170614 |
Not, you never said that Snugglepot and Cuddlepie was a sex-and-violence-infused philosophically-motivated Scandinavian-themed retelling of Genesis. WHY DID YOU LIE TO ME?
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[Later the same day]
Well, I'm definitely building...
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...
| Author | Geoffrey Willans |
| ISBN | 0006706193 |
Another foray into the category that is "Books I read as a child". I read this as part of "The Compleet Molesworth" which collects all four Molesworth books into one.
I wonder what a child of today would make of Molesworth? Even when I was growing up, in the 1970s, this 1950s depiction of boarding...
| Author | Enid Blyton |
| ISBN | 0603032958 |
Kali ini Sirkus Galliano Main lagiii...Asyikk itu artinya kita bakal ketemuan dengan Jimmy dan anjingnya yang pandai, Lucky; Lotta, yang bandel ^_^; Oona si pemain akrobat; Stanley si badut yang super kocak; Lal & Laddo, pemain-pemain berkuda, ayah-ibu Lotta; Pak Tonks dan Jumbo, sang gajah;...
| Author | Morris Gleitzman |
| ISBN | 0330399950 |
Keith's heart was pounding. Calm down, he thought. You're not robbing a bank. You're not kidnapping anybody. You're just painting a fish and chip shop orange. Keith is trying to cheer up his parents. But a pair of misery guts need more than a pot of Tropical Mango Hi-Gloss to make them happy. What they really...
| Author | Marcia K. Vaughan |
| ISBN | 0382092112 |
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...
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...
Where the Forest Meets the Sea
| Author | Jeannie Baker |
| ISBN | 0688063632 |
“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,...
| Author | James Herriot |
| ISBN | 0312051379 |
Having read about Oscar in James Herriot’s Cat Stories, I wanted to see if the delightful story could be improved in any way as a picture book. It definitely is a treasure. The story has been trimmed to focus on how a lost cat was adopted by the Herriot’s only to be reclaimed by its owners, yet there is...
| Author | Robin Klein |
| ISBN | 0195546490 |
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...
| Author | Elizabeth Honey |
| ISBN | 0375805788 |
I have a strong memory of sitting on the carpet listening to Mr. Merritt, my year 6 teacher, read this out loud to the class, doing the voices extremely well and laughing along with the rest of us (and at the more adult specif bits, which reading now, are very well done- the Cellulites lol). I was sniggering...
| Author | Paul Jennings |
| ISBN | 0140376356 |
03/12/2011 - just received a copy via readitswapit! So excited to read these again :)
Thoughts as of 06/12/2011 -
Pink Bow Tie - aha, the "Age Rager" which can make people become older or younger. Very short (or perhaps I just haven't read a PJ short story in a while?) but also very Paul...
| Author | Katharine Susannah Prichard |
| ISBN | 0207132178 |
Coonardoo is the moving story of a young Aboriginal woman trained form childhood to be the housekeeper at Wytaliba station and, as such, destined to look after its owner, Hugh Watt. The love between Coonardoo and Hugh, which so shocked its readers when the book was first published in 1929, is never acknowledged...
If you a woman of a certain age, and if you were (or still are) a horse lover, you most likely did what I did -watched The Man from Snowy River over and over and over again.
Which means you most likely also tracked down the poem. Paterson is actully more well known than most people think. What is the...
| Author | Mary Grant Bruce |
| ISBN | 0706355954 |
Billabong, a large cattle and sheep property in the Australian countryside, is home to twelve-year-old Norah Linton, her widowed father, David, and her older brother, Jim. Norah's prim and proper aunts, who live in the city, consider she is in danger of "growing up wild" - riding all over Billabong...
| Author | D'Arcy Niland |
| ISBN | 0141186135 |
A shiralee is a swag, a burden, a bloody millstone - and that's what four-year-old Buster is to her father, Macauley. He takes the child on the road with him to spite his wife, but months pass and still no word comes to ask for the little girl back. Strangers to each other at first, father and daughter drift...
| Author | Mem Fox |
| ISBN | 0152000763 |
Oh, Mem Fox. I'm really not sure about the message this book sends to children. I *think* it is supposed to be that trying is more important than succeeding and that your parents will love you even if you fail. What it actually says is that working mothers ignore and neglect their children and that the only...
| Author | Diana Young |
| ISBN | 0590454331 |
The story follows Crysta a fun loving, rule breaking fairy as she learns more about the magical rainforest she calls home and the dangers that threaten its existence.
I can't remember if I saw the movie or read the book first but this story has always been one of my favorites (and not just because...
| Author | Gillian Rubinstein |
| ISBN | 0140341404 |
Sky Maze (Space Demons Trilogy, #2), Gillian Rubinstein
Space Demons is a book by Australian author Gillian Rubinstein. First released in 1985, the young adult science fiction novel is the first of the 'Space Demons' trilogy. The author of Space Demons writes the tale of four friends and a devious...
