Alfie's Search for Destiny

Alfie's Search for Destiny

Author: David Hardy

Publisher:

Published: 2013

Total Pages: 33

ISBN-13: 9781922142115

DOWNLOAD EBOOK

Alfie searched high and low for his destiny, he even asked koala, lizard and roo...Cover.


Alfie's Big Wish

Alfie's Big Wish

Author: David Hardy

Publisher:

Published: 2014

Total Pages:

ISBN-13: 9781922142535

DOWNLOAD EBOOK

Age range 5-8 "The other kids playing were bigger you see, 'Why is there no one the same size as me?' Without all the kids he'd played with and known, Alfie felt small, not to mention alone." Another endearing book by David Hardy (author of Alfie's Search for Destiny) Alfie's Big Wish tells the story of a little boy who is determined to find a friend who truly knows and understands him. Despite his best efforts, Alfie spends a whole day playing alone. Exhausted and dispirited, he falls asleep only to find, in the morning, that wishes made on stars sometimes really do come true.


Young Dark Emu

Young Dark Emu

Author: Bruce Pascoe

Publisher: Magabala Books

Published: 2019-06-01

Total Pages: 80

ISBN-13: 1925768821

DOWNLOAD EBOOK

*Longlisted for the CBCA 2020 Eve Pownall Award for Information Books* *Winner of the Booksellers' Choice 2020 Children's Book of the Year Award* *Shortlisted for the 2020 NSW Premier’s Literary Awards Patricia Wrightson Prize for Children's Literature* *Shortlisted for the ABIA Book of the Year for Younger Children (ages 7-12)* *Shortlisted for the Indie Book Awards 2020: Children's* Age range 10+. The highly-anticipated junior version of Bruce Pascoe’s multi award-winning book. Bruce Pascoe has collected a swathe of literary awards for Dark Emu and now he has brought together the research and compelling first person accounts in a book for younger readers. Using the accounts of early European explorers, colonists and farmers, Bruce Pascoe compellingly argues for a reconsideration of the hunter-gatherer label for pre-colonial Aboriginal Australians. He allows the reader to see Australia as it was before Europeans arrived — a land of cultivated farming areas, productive fisheries, permanent homes, and an understanding of the environment and its natural resources that supported thriving villages across the continent. Young Dark Emu — A Truer History asks young readers to consider a different version of Australia’s history pre-European colonisation. 'Adapted for a younger readership from Pascoe's best-selling Dark Emu, this exquisitely illustrated picture book will transform how we see Australian history. Bruce uses the diaries of early explorers and colonists to show us the Australia where Aboriginal people built houses, dams and wells and farmed the land.' — Fiona Stager, The Courier Mail


The Simple Gift

The Simple Gift

Author: Steven Herrick

Publisher: Simon and Schuster

Published: 2004-05

Total Pages: 196

ISBN-13: 0689868677

DOWNLOAD EBOOK

Weary of life with his alcoholic, abusive father, sixteen-year-old Billy packs a few belongings and hits the road, hoping for something better than what he left behind.


Wiradjuri Country

Wiradjuri Country

Author: Larry Brandy

Publisher:

Published: 2021-11

Total Pages: 91

ISBN-13: 9780642279866

DOWNLOAD EBOOK

The Wiradjuri are the people of the three bila (rivers) and their nguram-bang (Country) is the second largest in Australia. Come with Uncle Larry Brandy on an enlightening journey through his Country's rivers, woodlands, grasslands and rocky outcrops, as well as the murri-yang (sky world).This is a unique book combining language, culture, Indigenous history and storytelling, written by a Wiradjuri author.


The Talent Industry

The Talent Industry

Author: Raymond Boyle

Publisher: Springer

Published: 2018-07-28

Total Pages: 214

ISBN-13: 3319943790

DOWNLOAD EBOOK

​This book explores how the digital multiplatform delivery of television is affecting the role performed by cultural intermediaries responsible for talent identification and development. Drawing on original research from key stakeholders across the television and social video sectors such as broadcasters, commissioning editors and talent agents, it investigates whether the process of digitization is offering new pathways to capture and nurture a diverse talent base within the UK television industry. It also provides an in-depth study of how the term ‘talent’ has historically been interpreted and understood within the UK television industry through the BBC and commercial PSB’s, such as ITV and Channel 4. The Talent Industry investigates how the traditional gatekeepers of talent in television are changing and examines the key role of talent agencies in managing and promoting contemporary on and off-screen talent in the digital age.


Who Financed Hitler

Who Financed Hitler

Author: James Pool

Publisher: Pocket Books

Published: 1997-10

Total Pages: 460

ISBN-13:

DOWNLOAD EBOOK

Jewish sources of financial support for the Nazis... and much more.


The Binna Binna Man

The Binna Binna Man

Author: Meme McDonald

Publisher: Allen & Unwin

Published: 1999

Total Pages: 102

ISBN-13: 9781865080710

DOWNLOAD EBOOK

The Binna Binna man can be good and heal you, but if you poke fun at him or go to touch him, then you can get into big trouble - like die. The young boy from My Girragundji learns that to stay strong you must listen to the old people and be connected to the place you came from.


On the way to Nana’s

On the way to Nana’s

Author: Frances Haji-Ali

Publisher: Magabala Books

Published: 2017-06-01

Total Pages: 36

ISBN-13: 1925360326

DOWNLOAD EBOOK

Age range 4 to 8 Frances and Lindsay Haji-Ali take us counting backwards from FIFTEEN to ONE on this spectactular journey in the far north of WA. When Frances and Lindsay lived with their family in Broome, they often set out to visit Nana in the tiny outback town of Wyndham over 1,000km north. These road trips took them across the magnificent Kimberley landscape and inspired this counting story. On the way to Nana’s is a standout counting book. Counting backwards from ‘fifteen to one’ is a challenging concept for children to grasp. Each double-page spread includes numbers and words and will enthrall readers, parents and educators as they find and count the objects on each page. From bulbous boabs and wild brumbies to weary travellers, flying magpie geese and flowing waterfalls, David Hardy’s striking illustrations capture the awe and excitement of this special family adventure. Included on the Children's Book Council of Australia 2018 Notables list.


The Prophecies

The Prophecies

Author: Nostradamus

Publisher: Penguin

Published: 2013-12-31

Total Pages: 401

ISBN-13: 0143107232

DOWNLOAD EBOOK

The first major literary presentation of Nostradamus's Prophecies, newly translated and edited by prizewinning scholars The mysterious quatrains of the sixteenth-century French astrologer Nostradamus have long proved captivating for their predictions. Nostradamus has been credited with anticipating the Great Fire of London, the rise of Adolf Hitler, and the September 11 terrorist attacks. Today, as the world grapples with financial meltdowns, global terrorism, and environmental disasters—as well as the Mayan prediction of the apocalypse on December 21, 2012—his prophecies of doom have assumed heightened relevance. How has The Prophecies outlasted most books from the Renaissance? This edition considers its legacy in terms of the poetics of the quatrains, published here in a brilliant new translation and with introductory material and notes mapping the cultural, political, and historical forces that resonate throughout Nostradamus's epic, giving it its visionary power. For more than seventy years, Penguin has been the leading publisher of classic literature in the English-speaking world. With more than 1,700 titles, Penguin Classics represents a global bookshelf of the best works throughout history and across genres and disciplines. Readers trust the series to provide authoritative texts enhanced by introductions and notes by distinguished scholars and contemporary authors, as well as up-to-date translations by award-winning translators.