Logging you in...
Australian Genre
Books in the Australian genre:
Our Mutual Friend (1865)
Author(s):
Charles Dickens
Illustrator(s):
Marcus Stone
Nellie Doran (1888)
When Nellie's brother sells his horses, the family decides to send Nellie to the convent school, where her talent for music is soon revealed. This one of the few boarding school stories set in a Catholic institution.
Author(s):
Miriam Agatha
Illustrator(s):
None
Following the Equator: A Journey Around the World (1897)
Author(s):
Mark Twain
Illustrator(s):
Dan Beard
A. B. Frost
Peter Newell
Photographs
Et al
The Brown Fairy Book (1904)
Stories from many different cultures. Read online at archive.org.
Author(s):
Andrew Lang
Leonora Blanche Alleyne Lang
Et al
Illustrator(s):
H. J. Ford
The Long Bright Land: Fairy Tales from the Southern Seas (1929)
A collection of fairy tales from the Maori peoples of the Pacific islands.
Author(s):
Edith Annie Howes
Illustrator(s):
Dorothy P. Lathrop
Wild Animals and their Little Ones (1935)
Pictures of animals and their young. A shortened version of the French Pere Castor edition.
Author(s):
Rose Celli
Illustrator(s):
Feodor Rojankovsky
Wild Animals at Home (1935)
A collection of pictures of animal mothers and their young. This edition is somewhat abbreviated compared with the French original Pere Castor publication.
Author(s):
Marguerite Reynier
Illustrator(s):
Feodor Rojankovsky
Sheep Kings (1936)
As the bottom drops out of the market for wool, Valentine and her father struggle to keep their ranch going.
Author(s):
Joyce West
Illustrator(s):
None
Botany Bay (1941)
Author(s):
James Norman Hall
Charles Nordhoff
Illustrator(s):
N. C. Wyeth
Katy No-Pocket (1944)
Katy the kangaroo has no pocket for her baby so she goes to the big city to find one.
Author(s):
Emmy Payne
Illustrator(s):
H. A. Rey
Road to Down Under (1944)
Barbara Reid and her family emigrate from the Orkney Islands to Australia.
Author(s):
Maribelle Cormack
Illustrator(s):
Edward Shenton
Australia Calling (1946)
A humorous story of adventures Americans have in Australia.
Author(s):
Margaret L. MacPherson
Illustrator(s):
Kurt Wiese
Baby Roo (1947)
A sailor finds a lost baby kangaroo and takes her home as a pet.
Author(s):
Laura Bannon
Illustrator(s):
Laura Bannon
Hop, Hop Little Kangaroo (1948)
A little kangaroo learns to hop like its father and mother, without letting its tail touch the ground.
Author(s):
Dorothy Kunhardt
Illustrator(s):
Garth Williams
Robinson Carew - Castaway (1949)
A son of wealthy parents finds himself a castaway on a desert island in Australia.
Author(s):
Dale Collins
Illustrator(s):
Christine Price
The Legacy (1950)
Author(s):
Neville Shute
Illustrator(s):
Unknown
A Town Like Alice (1950)
Author(s):
Neville Shute
Illustrator(s):
Unknown
Who’s Upside Down? (1952)
A kangaroo in Australia does not like the thought that she is upside down.
Author(s):
Crockett Johnson
Illustrator(s):
Crockett Johnson
Drovers Road (1953)
Gay Allan writes about her family and their life on Drovers Road, their sheep station in New Zealand, so they will remember how happy they were when they are grown up.
Author(s):
Joyce West
Illustrator(s):
Joyce West
Rabbit and His Friends (1953)
Author(s):
Richard Scarry
Illustrator(s):
Richard Scarry