Wombat Stew
10 best books like Wombat Stew (Marcia K. Vaughan): The Complete Adventures of Snugglepot and Cuddlepie, Blinky Bill, The Water Hole, Diary of a Wombat, Where the Forest Meets the Sea, Possum Magic, John Brown, Rose and the Midnight Cat, Mr Archimedes' Bath, There's a Hippopotamus on our Roof Eating Cake, The Muddle-Headed Wombat
| 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 | Graeme Base |
| ISBN | 0810945681 |
This is a beautiful book. Usually, in Graeme Base books I’ve read, he has all these hidden games throughout the story. He did not do that here. This is a straight forward story about counting animals around water holes around the earth. I think it shows the importance of water. The animals are beautiful...
| Author | Jackie French |
| ISBN | 0618381368 |
Wombats are cuddly-looking, slow-moving Australian animals. Their favorite activities are eating, sleeping, and digging holes. Here, in the words of one unusually articulate wombat, is the tongue-in-cheek account of a busy week; eating, sleeping, digging holes . . . and training its new neighbors,...
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 | Mem Fox |
| ISBN | 0152632247 |
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...
| Author | Jenny Wagner |
| ISBN | 0140503064 |
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...
| Author | Pamela Allen |
| ISBN | 0207172854 |
When reading this to a small group of children, some of them enjoyed this, others thought it just silly and a couple thought it to be on the lame side. So a very mixed reaction.
Those that liked it got a kick out of Mr Archimedes trying to figure out what was happening with the bath water. One child...
| Author | Hazel Edwards |
| ISBN | 0340286970 |
'My daddy says there's a hole in our roof. I know why there's a hole. There's a hippopotamus on our roof eating cake.'
The cake-eating hippo is ageless. This classic story about one of the largest and most famous imaginary friends has been delighting children around the world for almost 40 years....
| Author | Ruth Park |
| ISBN | 0207167338 |
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...
| Author | Anh Do |
| ISBN | 1742378323 |
After Australian comedian Anh Do told his story about being a refugee in his award-winning memoir, The Happiest Refugee, he received many requests for a children’s version. This is the inspiring result.
Anh nearly didn't make it to Australia. His entire family came close to losing their...
| Author | Sheena Knowles |
| ISBN | 0064434990 |
"If you buy one book for sheer fun, there's no question it should be this one." —San Diego Union Tribune
Tired of his life as an emu, Edward decides to try being something else for a change. He tries swimming with the seals, he spends a day lounging with the lions, and even slithers with the snakes....
Are We There Yet?: A Journey Around Australia
| Author | Alison Lester |
| ISBN | 1929132735 |
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...
Hairy Maclary's Caterwaul Caper
| Author | Lynley Dodd |
| ISBN | 0140508732 |
Six bark-along pooches, homey illustrations and spirited verse -- what youngster could resist this slightly retro, rhyming micro-adventure?
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