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A Voyager Book Harcourt Brace Jovanovich (publisher), series - publisher
The Bookmark Library : Level Two Harcourt Brace Jovanovich (publisher), series - publisher
1 3 y separately published work icon Sticky Beak Morris Gleitzman , Sydney : Piper , 1993 Z795581 1993 single work children's fiction children's humour

'The last thing Rowena wants in her life right now is a cockatoo with a crook temper. She's got enough problems of her own. For a start, she's just spattered two hundred grown-ups with jelly and custard. But a crazy cockatoo, Ro discovers, can be just the friend she needs.'

Source: Trove
1 y separately published work icon The Miners Rest Robert L. Muddyman , Sydney : Harcourt Brace Jovanovich , 1992 Z1887507 1992 single work children's fiction children's
2 y separately published work icon Perfect Timing Jeremy Fisher , Sydney : Harcourt Brace Jovanovich , 1992 Z1845565 1992 single work novel young adult Perfect Timing is a young adult novel (10-12 year olds) about Andrew, a child with a disability, who has the band the Angry Wombats move in across the road from his home. They befriend him and he learns to play guitar and sets up a band with his school friends. He discovers his disability doesn't stop him succeeding in music. There's an underlying environmental theme - the Angry Wombats songs are green-friendly (author's abstract).
1 y separately published work icon Dream Door of Shinar : The First of the Dream Door Series Patricia Bernard , Sydney : Harcourt Brace Jovanovich , 1992 Z1552693 1992 single work children's fiction children's fantasy
1 y separately published work icon Through the Web and Other Stories Marrickville : Harcourt Brace Jovanovich , 1992 Z130258 1992 anthology short story
3 y separately published work icon Land of the Rippling Gold Una Clarke , Sydney : Harcourt Brace Jovanovich , 1992 Z1326561 1992 single work children's fiction children's
1 y separately published work icon Spectrum : Violet Harcourt Brace Jovanovich (publisher), 1992 1990 Sydney : Harcourt Brace Jovanovich , 1990-1992 23112995 1992 series - publisher children's
1 1 y separately published work icon Australia's Unwritten History : More Legends of Our Land Oodgeroo Noonuccal , Oodgeroo Noonuccal (illustrator), Sydney : Harcourt Brace Jovanovich , 1992 Z855842 1992 children's fiction children's Indigenous story

'...These legends are Australia's unwritten history, handed down by word of mouth through countless generations. They tell of the spirit beings, and the animals, plants and landscapes that they created..

'The legends in this book are told by Aborigines from widely different regions of Australia: Tasman, the Gold Coast area, and Stradbroke Island...' (Source: Back cover)
1 y separately published work icon The Thunder God : A Chinese Folktale David Shapiro , Sydney : Harcourt Brace Jovanovich , 1992 Z839651 1992 single work children's fiction children's 'Out of kindness, Yo invites a strange man, with an unusual appetite and extraordinary strength, to stay on his farm. The stranger is a great help to Yo, but the whole district badly needs rain to break a severe drought. "Right, I shall arrange it", the stranger tells Yo. Feeling tired, Yo falls asleep. He awakens to find himself being transported on a wonderful journey, where he discovers the stranger's true identity and power.' (Source: Back cover)
3 2 y separately published work icon Mem's the Word Mem Fox , Blackwood : Mem Fox , 1989 Z898388 1989 single work autobiography children's

'Mem’s the Word is the candid and compelling autobiography of Australia’s most successful children’s author. It begins with Mem’s ancestors settling in Australia and follows her childhood in Africa, her education in Europe, her return to Australia and the trials and successes of her international career as a writer, storyteller and teacher. It unfolds as an endlessly generous reminiscence, full of truth and humour, self-awareness and insight, and the secrets of a writer’s life.'

Source: Publisher's blurb (Ligature ed.)
2 7 y separately published work icon Night of the Muttonbirds Mary Small , Sydney : Methuen , 1981 Z964260 1981 single work children's fiction children's

Every year Matthew goes with the other families of Cape Barren and kills muttonbirds for money. An encounter with a conservationist who has been banding the birds for years causes Matthew to question this practice.
1 y separately published work icon That's a Job for Me! Ross Pearce , Sydney : Harcourt Brace Jovanovich , 1992 23103833 1992 single work information book children's
1 y separately published work icon Technology for the Environment Mike Callaghan , Peter Knapp (illustrator), Sydney : Harcourt Brace Jovanovich , 1992 23103778 1992 single work information book children's
1 y separately published work icon Stagestruck! A Collection of Plays Dianne Bates , Bill Condon , Sydney : Harcourt Brace Jovanovich , 1992 23103714 1992 selected work drama children's
1 y separately published work icon Spacescape Karl Kruszelnicki , Sydney : Harcourt Brace Jovanovich , 1992 23103625 1992 single work information book children's
1 y separately published work icon Rainforests . Stephen Jones , Sydney : Harcourt Brace Jovanovich , 1992 23103552 1992 single work information book children's
1 y separately published work icon Homeland Australia Michael Dugan , Sydney : Harcourt Brace Jovanovich , 1992 23103361 1992 single work information book children's
1 y separately published work icon Framing Ned Kelly : Paintings by Sidney Nolan 1945-47 Louise Martin-Chew , Sidney Nolan (illustrator), Sydney : Harcourt Brace Jovanovich , 1992 23103001 1992 single work information book children's
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