This is Home: Essential Australian Poems for Children

What do you feel like doing today? Sit beside a bush campfire with Oodgeroo Noonuccal, watch people going by with Henry Lawson, float away with Alison Lester, learn to read with Andy Griffiths or be brave with Shaun Tan. Ideal for sharing with the whole family, this extensively illustrated edition b...

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Other Authors: French, Jackie 1953- (Editor), McCartney, Tania 1968- (Illustrator)
Format: Book
Language:English
Published: Canberra, ACT NLA Publishing [2019]
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Summary:What do you feel like doing today? Sit beside a bush campfire with Oodgeroo Noonuccal, watch people going by with Henry Lawson, float away with Alison Lester, learn to read with Andy Griffiths or be brave with Shaun Tan. Ideal for sharing with the whole family, this extensively illustrated edition brings together old favourites and sure-to-be new favourites in an indispensable addition to children's bookshelves. From poems that whisper to poems that roar, from words of tranquility and heartbreak to those of the witty and absurd, there is something within these pages to make everyone feel at home
Item Description:"Introduction, chapter introductions and notes Jackie French"--Title page verso
"Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander communities are advised that this book contains names of people who are now deceased"--Title page verso
Physical Description:159 pages color illustrations
Audience:For ages 7+
ISBN:9780642279385
0642279381