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Flash Jim: The astonishing story of the convict fraudster who wrote Australia's first dictionary by Kel Richards
$32.99 AUD
Category: Australiana
The astonishing story of James Hardy Vaux, writer of Australia's first dictionary and first true-crime memoir If you wear 'togs', tell a 'yarn', call someone 'sly', or refuse to 'snitch' on a friend then you are talking like a convict.These words, and hundreds of others, once left colonial magistrates b ...Show more
Goldilocks and the Three Koalas by Kel Richards and Claire Richards (illustrator)
$14.99 AUD
Category: Children's Picture Books | Series: Aussie Gems
Everyone called her 'Goldilocks', although her name was Shirley, because she had a mass of hair, fluffy, blonde and curly. Shirley goes out for a walk one day and comes across a little house in the bush. After letting herself in, thoroughly looking through (and messing up) the house, as well as helping ...Show more
Jacko and the Beanstalk by RICHARDS, KEL
$14.99 AUD
Category: Children's Picture Books
Fee, fi, fo, fozzie - I smell the blood of a juicy Aussie. Be he alive or be he dead, I'll grind his bones to make my bread. Will Jacko make it down the beanstalk and escape the angry croc? Find out in this vibrant Aussie retelling of the classic story - complete with an unexpected ending! Plus, watch o ...Show more
Little Red Riding Hoodie by Kel Richards; Claire Richards (Illustrator)
$14.99 AUD
Category: Children's Picture Books
Miss Red Riding Hoodie would walk through the wood in her coat with a hood And pay her dear granny a call... But will the sly dingo get to Granny's house first? Or will the brave squatter make it in time to save the day? Find out in this wonderful rhyming Aussie retelling of the classic story!
Snowy White and the Seven Wombats by Kel Richards
$9.99 AUD
Category: Children's Picture Books
Down near the Great Australian Bight There lived a girl called Snowy White. This sad girl lived a nightmare not a dream, Her step-mum was 'the Queen of Mean'! Snowy White's nasty step-mother loves dialling up the Magic Mirror on her phone to find out who is the fairest in the bush. Until one day, when t ...Show more
Story of Australian English by Kel Richards
$29.99 AUD
Category: Australiana
The English language arrived in Australia with the first motley bunch of European settlers on 26 January 1788. Today there is clearly a distinctive Australian regional dialect with its own place among the global family of 'Englishes'. How did this come about? Where did the distinctive pattern, accent, a ...Show more
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