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Issue Details: First known date: 2010... 2010 Rainforest Song
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  • "After a boat trip down the Franklin River in Tasmania." 

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  • Appears in:
    y separately published work icon The ABC Book of Australian Poetry : A Treasury of Poems for Young Children Libby Hathorn , Pymble : ABC Books , 2010 Z1703020 2010 anthology poetry

    ''I am the river, gently flowing, as I wind my way to the sea.' (Mary Duroux)

    'Follow the river of poetry through country, town, the bush, the four seasons, night and day and explore the Australian landscape through the eyes of our best Australian poets.

    'In this beautiful collection of poems for children, award-winning author and poet, Libby Hathorn, has brought together favourites such as those by A.B. 'Banjo' Paterson, Dorothea Mackellar and C.J. Dennis, as well as more contemporary poems by Steven Herrick, Eva Johnson, Les A. Murray and others.'

    Source: Publisher's blurb.
     

         Pymble : ABC Books , 2010     pg. 37 Section: Part 2. All Along the River : Mountains, Forests and Plains
  • Appears in:
    y separately published work icon This is Home : Essential Australian Poems for Children Jackie French (editor), Canberra : National Library of Australia , 2019 15797080 2019 selected work poetry

    'In This Is Home, much-loved author Jackie French has gathered a poem for every child and every mood. 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 tranquillity and heartbreak to those of the witty and absurd, there is something within these pages to make everyone feel at home.'

    Source: Publisher's blurb.

         Canberra : National Library of Australia , 2019     pg. 61
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