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y separately published work icon Send Round the Hat Henry Lawson , Sydney : Angus and Robertson , 1907 Z76494 1907 selected work short story humour Sydney : Angus and Robertson , 1924
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y separately published work icon While the Billy Boils Henry Lawson , Sydney : Angus and Robertson , 1896 Z822461 1896 selected work short story Sydney : Cornstalk Publishing , 1924
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y separately published work icon Winnowed Verse Henry Lawson , Sydney : Angus and Robertson , 1924 Z1048196 1924 selected work poetry Sydney : Angus and Robertson , 1924
y separately published work icon On the Track Henry Lawson , Sydney : Angus and Robertson , 1900 Z825714 1900 selected work short story Sydney : Angus and Robertson , 1923
y separately published work icon Over the Sliprails Henry Lawson , Sydney London : Angus and Robertson Australian Book Company , 1900 Z825726 1900 selected work short story (taught in 3 units) Sydney : Angus and Robertson , 1923
y separately published work icon Joe Wilson Henry Lawson , Sydney : Angus and Robertson , 1904 Z1216468 1904 selected work short story Comprises the first section of Joe Wilson and His Mates. Sydney : Angus and Robertson , 1923
y separately published work icon Joe Wilson's Mates Henry Lawson , Sydney : Angus and Robertson , 1904 Z1216487 1904 selected work short story Sydney : Angus and Robertson , 1923
y separately published work icon Dot and the Kangaroo Ethel Pedley , Sydney : Angus and Robertson , Z822948 1899 single work children's fiction children's

'Lost and afraid in the darkening bush, Dot is befriended by a kind Kangaroo. She eats the berries of understanding and is then able to communicate with all the bush creatures, who eventually guide her home.

'The intriguing tale of Dot and her Kangaroo is told by Ethel Pedley with the charm that has made this book an Australian favourite since it was first published in 1899. Now, as then, children will be enthralled by this oldest of Australian classics, it will endure to entertain generations to come.' (Publication summary)

Sydney : Angus and Robertson , 1923
y separately published work icon Dot and the Kangaroo Ethel Pedley , Sydney : Angus and Robertson , Z822948 1899 single work children's fiction children's

'Lost and afraid in the darkening bush, Dot is befriended by a kind Kangaroo. She eats the berries of understanding and is then able to communicate with all the bush creatures, who eventually guide her home.

'The intriguing tale of Dot and her Kangaroo is told by Ethel Pedley with the charm that has made this book an Australian favourite since it was first published in 1899. Now, as then, children will be enthralled by this oldest of Australian classics, it will endure to entertain generations to come.' (Publication summary)

Sydney : Cornstalk Publishing , 1923
y separately published work icon Nor-West o' West H. E. Riemann , Sydney : Cornstalk Publishing , 1924 Z945963 1924 selected work short story Stories based on the author's experience in the north-west of Western Australia. Reprinted from the Lone Hand, Bulletin, Sydney Mail and Perth Western Mail. Sydney : Cornstalk Publishing , 1924
The Songs of a Sentimental Bloke C. J. Dennis , Sydney : Angus and Robertson , 1915 Z429076 1915 selected work poetry humour
— Appears in: The Complete Sentimental Bloke 2001;

Arguably the most popular book of poetry ever produced in Australia, The Songs of a Sentimental Bloke was first published in October 1915. Its success was immediate and unprecedented for a book of Australian verse. The first edition of 2,480 copies sold out within weeks, and by the end of February 1916 the book had reached a fifth impression and was still selling well. Tongue firmly in cheek, C. J. Dennis informed his publishers Angus and Robertson that the work's 'success [was] becoming monotonous'. There was more monotony to come, however: the book sold more than 100,000 copies in the first five years after its publication, and was rarely out of print in Dennis's lifetime. Added to this, there were film, stage, and musical versions of the work, as well as recitals given by popular entertainers. In many respects, 'The Sentimental Bloke' became a phenomenon of popular culture that took on a life of its own.

Dennis later claimed that the idea for 'The Sentimental Bloke' came from a 'racy' young man from Melbourne he had met in Toolangi. According to Dennis' wife Margaret Herron, the young man had fallen in love with a farmer's daughter, but the farmer disapproved and forbade her from having anything to do with him. The Melbourne man was said to have complained to Dennis, 'what sort of bloke do they think I am? Blimey, anyone would think I was a crook! Ain't a bloke got sisters of his own?' In Dennis's imagination, this frustrated love affair eventually became a story in which a tough, streetwise young larrikin gives up his dissolute ways for domestic happiness with his sweetheart. A crucial factor in the success of Dennis's 'Sentimental Bloke' verse was that it was narrated from the point of view of 'the Bloke', employing a slang idiom appropriate to the character. In his correspondence with his publishers, Dennis noted that 'the stuff, while not having any considerable literary merit, is, I believe, extremely popular'.

Sydney : Cornstalk Publishing , 1924
y separately published work icon Dot and the Kangaroo Douglas Ancelon , Stella Chapman , Sydney : Angus and Robertson , 1924 Z1104630 1924 single work drama children's Sydney : Angus and Robertson , 1924
y separately published work icon Humorous Verses Henry Lawson , Sydney : Cornstalk Publishing , 1924 Z215617 1924 selected work poetry humour Sydney : Cornstalk Publishing , 1924
y separately published work icon Gem of the Flat Constance Mackness , Sydney : Angus and Robertson , 1914 Z468180 1914 single work children's fiction children's Twelve-year-old Gem lives with her gold-fossicking grandfather at Needy Flat, a rough and poverty-stricken place on the New South Wales central tableland. Orphaned in infancy, Gem has been raised almost entirely by her grandfather, and has had little contact with other children. Gem is bossy and quick and wilful, and she and her grandfather express their mutual affection via playful taunts and banter. Gem and her grandfather decide she should attend school, since her grandfather has taught her all that he can. And so Gem comes to attend the one-teacher school, run by Frank Gray, the new school master, and meet the other students. Meanwhile, a bushranger is on the loose in the vicinity. Sydney : Cornstalk Publishing , 1924
y separately published work icon The Squatter's Dream : A Story of Australian Life Rolf Boldrewood , 1875 Z1221394 1875 single work novel Australia : Cornstalk Publishing , 1924
y separately published work icon Saltbush Bill, J. P., and Other Verses A. B. Paterson , Sydney : Angus and Robertson , 1917 Z822801 1917 selected work poetry Sydney : Cornstalk Publishing , 1924
y separately published work icon Bushland Babies Charles Barrett , Sydney : Cornstalk Publishing , 1924 Z1294799 1924 single work children's fiction children's A swallow leads Colin to Blossomville to introduce him to a range of native birds. Sydney : Cornstalk Publishing , 1924
y separately published work icon Rio Grande's Last Race and Other Verses A. B. Paterson , London Sydney Melbourne : Angus and Robertson , 1902 Z822777 1902 selected work poetry Sydney : Cornstalk Publishing , 1924
y separately published work icon Old Bush Songs : Composed and Sung in the Bushranging, Digging and Overlanding Days A. B. Paterson (editor), Sydney : Angus and Robertson , 1905 Z59487 1905 anthology poetry Sydney : Cornstalk Publishing , 1924
y separately published work icon The Man from Snowy River and Other Verses A. B. Paterson , Sydney London : Angus and Robertson Young J. Pentland , 1895 Z122819 1895 selected work poetry Sydney : Cornstalk Publishing , 1924
y separately published work icon Teens : A Story of Australian School Girls Louise Mack , London : Andrew Melrose , 1897 Z1601939 1897 single work novel young adult Story of 'Lenny Leighton and her best friend, Mabel James, who attend a Sydney high school. Lennie and Mabel's pleasure in each other's company, their differing family lives, and their schoolgirl enthusiasms, including founding a magazine, are shrewdly explored' (Oxford Companion to Australian Children's Literature 411). Sydney : Cornstalk Publishing , 1924
y separately published work icon The Romance of the Swag Henry Lawson , Melbourne : E. W. Cole , 1907 Z1846504 1907 selected work short story prose Reprint of the second part of Children of the Bush (1902). According to Colin Roderick 'Latter-day corruptions crept in when Lawson's publisher emended the texts in 1924 to fit the stories into two volumes in the Platypus Series' (Henry Lawson: Short Stories and Sketches 1888-1922, p. xviii) Sydney : Angus and Robertson , 1924
A Sydney-Side Saxon Rolf Boldrewood , 1888 single work novel Sydney : Cornstalk Publishing , 1925
y separately published work icon Popular Verses Henry Lawson , Sydney : Angus and Robertson , 1925 Z1216046 1925 selected work poetry Sydney : Angus and Robertson , 1925
y separately published work icon Dot and the Kangaroo Ethel Pedley , Sydney : Angus and Robertson , Z822948 1899 single work children's fiction children's

'Lost and afraid in the darkening bush, Dot is befriended by a kind Kangaroo. She eats the berries of understanding and is then able to communicate with all the bush creatures, who eventually guide her home.

'The intriguing tale of Dot and her Kangaroo is told by Ethel Pedley with the charm that has made this book an Australian favourite since it was first published in 1899. Now, as then, children will be enthralled by this oldest of Australian classics, it will endure to entertain generations to come.' (Publication summary)

Sydney : Cornstalk Publishing , 1925
y separately published work icon Looeena : A Story of Bush Life in Tasmania George M. Barnard , Sydney : Cornstalk Publishing , 1925 Z815980 1925 single work novel Sydney : Cornstalk Publishing , 1925
y separately published work icon Scribbling Sue and Other Stories Amy Eleanor Mack , Sydney : Angus and Robertson , 1914 Z849559 1914 selected work children's fiction children's New South Wales : Cornstalk Publishing , 1925
y separately published work icon Gem of the Flat Constance Mackness , Sydney : Angus and Robertson , 1914 Z468180 1914 single work children's fiction children's Twelve-year-old Gem lives with her gold-fossicking grandfather at Needy Flat, a rough and poverty-stricken place on the New South Wales central tableland. Orphaned in infancy, Gem has been raised almost entirely by her grandfather, and has had little contact with other children. Gem is bossy and quick and wilful, and she and her grandfather express their mutual affection via playful taunts and banter. Gem and her grandfather decide she should attend school, since her grandfather has taught her all that he can. And so Gem comes to attend the one-teacher school, run by Frank Gray, the new school master, and meet the other students. Meanwhile, a bushranger is on the loose in the vicinity. Sydney : Cornstalk Publishing , 1927
y separately published work icon Selected Poems of Henry Kendall Henry Kendall , Frederick Kendall , Sydney : Angus and Robertson , 1923 Z1186170 1923 selected work poetry Sydney : Angus and Robertson , 1928
y separately published work icon Mystery Gold Bartlett Adamson , Sydney : Cornstalk Publishing , 1926 Z32687 1926 single work children's fiction adventure children's '[A]n adventure story set on a tropical island, Malusa, where Billy Gordon and Dan Rockley find treasure, defeating all other comers, just because they are white Anglo-Saxons' (Oxford Companion to Australian Children's Literature 10). Sydney : Cornstalk Publishing , 1929

Works about this Work

Publisher's Progress C. T. Clarke , 1928 single work criticism
— Appears in: The Home , 2 January vol. 9 no. 1 1928; (p. 36, 74, 87-88)
Some Recent Books 1924 single work review
— Appears in: The Home , 1 March vol. 5 no. 1 1924; (p. 18-19)

— Review of Platypus Series series - publisher
Some Recent Books 1924 single work review
— Appears in: The Home , 1 March vol. 5 no. 1 1924; (p. 18-19)

— Review of Platypus Series series - publisher
Publisher's Progress C. T. Clarke , 1928 single work criticism
— Appears in: The Home , 2 January vol. 9 no. 1 1928; (p. 36, 74, 87-88)
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