Australian Genre
Books in the Australian genre:
Evie and the Wonderful Kangaroo (1955)
Author(s):
Irmengarde Eberle
Illustrator(s):
Louis Slobodkin
Young Kangaroo (1955)
The life story of a baby kangaroo in its mother’s pouch.
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Author(s):
Margaret Wise Brown
Illustrator(s):
Symeon Shimin
Wild Animal Babies (1958)
Author(s):
Kathleen N. Daly
Illustrator(s):
Feodor Rojankovsky
Wild Animal Babies from All Over the World (1958)
Twenty-two wild animal babies from a buffalo to a skunk selected from the Baby Wild Animals stamp book.
Author(s):
Kathleen N. Daly
Illustrator(s):
Feodor Rojankovsky
Castaways in Lilliput (1960)
When Peggy, Jim and Ralph wash up on the shore of a desert island, the last thing they expect to find are inhabitants no larger than a man’s hand.
Author(s):
Henry Winterfeld
Illustrator(s):
William M. Hutchinson
The Year of the Shining Cuckoo (1961)
Johnny sets out to earn enough money to buy a horse. The story is set in a remote seaside town in New Zealand.
Author(s):
Joyce West
Illustrator(s):
Joyce West
The Boundary Riders (1962)
Three Australian children set out to check the boundary fences and cross over to investigate a waterfall.
Author(s):
Joan Phipson
Illustrator(s):
Margaret Horder
Hills End (1962)
Author(s):
Ivan Southall
Illustrator(s):
Elisabeth Grant
Runaway Girl (1962)
Orphaned Joanne Mitchell is sent to stay with an aunt and uncle near the outback in Queensland. Finding no one home when she gets there, she decides to run away, pretend she is a boy, and find a job and place to live.
Author(s):
Ruth Morris
Illustrator(s):
Beth Krush
Hop, Little Kangaroo (1965)
Author(s):
Patricia Scarry
Illustrator(s):
Feodor Rojankovsky
No Beat of Drum (1967)
Joe Hinton is transported to Tasmania and makes a new life for himself.
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Author(s):
Hester Burton
Illustrator(s):
Victor Ambrus
Brave Johnny O’Hare (1969)
Brave Johnny O’Hare is a little Australian boy who is not afraid of anything, even the Bunyip, until one night …
Author(s):
Eleanor B. Heady
Illustrator(s):
Steven Kellogg
Do You Remember What Happened (1969)
Author(s):
Jean Chapman
Illustrator(s):
Edward Ardizzone
Upside Down (1969)
Author(s):
Crockett Johnson
Illustrator(s):
Crockett Johnson
Five Hundred Animals from A to Z (1970)
Author(s):
Joseph A. Davis
Illustrator(s):
Tibor Gergely
Bear Circus (1971)
The real bears of Koala Park are save from starvation by their friends the kangaroos when the leaves on the gum trees are eaten by grasshoppers. To show their gratitude they put on a circus.
Author(s):
William Pène du Bois
Illustrator(s):
William Pène du Bois
Baby Wild Animals from A to Z (1973)
Author(s):
Tibor Gergely
Illustrator(s):
Tibor Gergely
Polly’s Tiger (1974)
Polly’s imaginary tiger friend helps her feel at home in a new town.
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Author(s):
Joan Phipson
Illustrator(s):
Erik Blegvad
Dance on the Dusty Earth (1979)
Based on her travels, the author describes traditional dances in more primitive societies.
Author(s):
Christine Price
Illustrator(s):
Christine Price
The River Road (1980)
Author(s):
Joyce West
Illustrator(s):
Doreen Caldwell
Dragon Smoke and Magic Song (1984)
Three tales of Mimus the dragon who leaves his home and finds himself in the real world. There, he discovers Santa Claus, swimming and friendship; a tale of a unicorn, and a tale of a wise and very old monster living in New Zealand.
Author(s):
David Harvey
Illustrator(s):
Pauline Baynes
All in a Day (1986)
Author(s):
Mitsumasa Anno
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Illustrator(s):
Mitsumasa Anno
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Who’s Upside Down? (1990)
Author(s):
Crockett Johnson
Illustrator(s):
Crockett Johnson
Young Kangaroo (1993)
The life story of a baby kangaroo in its mother’s pouch.
Read online at archive.org.
Author(s):
Margaret Wise Brown
Illustrator(s):
Jennifer Dewey
The Drovers Road Collection (2003)
Author(s):
Joyce West
Illustrator(s):
Joyce West
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