Jean Elder Jean Elder i(A42772 works by) (a.k.a. Jean Towns)
Also writes as: Bunty Lou
Born: Established: 1915 St Arnaud, St Arnaud area, North West Victoria, Victoria, ; Died: Ceased: 2003 South Australia,
Gender: Female
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1 y separately published work icon Thiele Tales : Three Long Stories for Children Colin Thiele , Adelaide : Rigby , 1980 Z828199 1980 selected work children's fiction children's
2 y separately published work icon A Dog Called Debbie Lyla Stevens , Hornsby : Hodder and Stoughton Australia Brockhampton Press , 1973 Z845979 1973 single work children's fiction children's
1 y separately published work icon Flip-Flop and Tiger Snake Colin Thiele , Adelaide : Rigby , 1970 Z826694 1970 single work children's fiction children's
1 y separately published work icon Flash Flood Colin Thiele , Adelaide : Rigby , 1970 Z826691 1970 single work children's fiction children's
2 2 y separately published work icon Daughter of Two Worlds Audrey Oldfield , Adelaide : Rigby , 1970 Z667604 1970 single work children's fiction children's 'Mellala is educated at a mission school, then in Perth, and battles discrimination in an effort to find a place for herself in two societies.' Stella Lees and Pam Macintyre The Oxford Companion to Australian Children's Literature (1993): 325.
1 y separately published work icon The Land Where the Kangaroo Lives : A True Nature Book Lyla Stevens , London : Sampson Low, Marston , 1960 Z848049 1960 single work non-fiction children's
1 y separately published work icon Soxy and the Bushland Queen Jean Elder , Sydney : Offset Printing , 1950 Z1327306 1950 single work children's fiction children's
1 y separately published work icon Robbie's Birthday Wish Phyllis Johnson , Jean Elder , Melbourne : Murfett , 1950 Z1065212 1950 single work children's fiction children's
1 2 y separately published work icon Little Chiu : A Series of Stories Book 1 : Kwong Chiu's New Year Clothes Sylvia Chew , Jean Elder (illustrator), Melbourne : Murfett , 1947 Z962627 1947 single work picture book children's
1 y separately published work icon The Bushland Ballet Lyla Stevens , Melbourne : Modern Printing Company , 1946 Z1384311 1946 single work children's fiction children's While Jenny's family are staying in a holiday house at Sherbrooke she and her little brother and dog explore the surrounding area . When they frighten away a dingo the grateful animals and fairy princess put on a Bush Concert.
1 y separately published work icon The Adventures of Bonnie and Bonza Betty Sue , Melbourne : Modern Printing Company , 1946 Z1356330 1946 selected work poetry children's
1 y separately published work icon Bonnie and Bonza at the Concert Lyla Stevens , Melbourne : Modern Printing Company , 1946 Z848895 1946 single work children's fiction children's
1 y separately published work icon Robbie's Trip to Fairyland Phyllis Johnson , Jean Elder , Melbourne : Murfett , 1946 Z836892 1946 single work children's fiction children's Robbie wakes up to find a fairy in his bedroom. The fairy sprinkles him with magic powder and takes him off to visit fairyland, where he meets an owl, a bat and the fairy queen.
2 y separately published work icon Around the Corner : and Other Bits and Pieces of Verse and Prose Lyla Stevens , Melbourne : Modern Printing Company , 1943 Z937466 1943 selected work poetry prose children's
1 y separately published work icon My Rhymes Jean Elder , Sydney : Allied Enterprises , 1940-1949 Z807464 1940-1949 single work children's
1 y separately published work icon Adventures of Margery Pym Rosalind Miller , London : Hutchinson , 1939 Z1325485 1939 single work children's fiction children's adventure historical fiction Recounts 'episodes in the life of an adventurous girl in gippsland during the first part of the nineteenth century' (Oxford Companion to Australian Children's Literature 300).
1 1 y separately published work icon The Golden Cauliflower Irene Cheyne , London : Hutchinson , 1937 Z1322747 1937 single work children's fiction children's Quincey Hurrie is confined to crutches and his mother must work long hours but he mamages to escape to the Land of Unreality and joins the quest for the Golden Cauliflower.
1 3 y separately published work icon Whirlaway : A Story of the Ages H. C. F. Morant , London : Hutchinson , 1937 Z846577 1937 single work children's fiction children's
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