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A Christmas Carol by Charles Dickens; Robert R. Ingpen (Illustrator)
Category: Picture Books
A Christmas Carol is a novella by Charles Dickens, first published on 1843. It tells the story of bitter old miser Ebenezer Scrooge and his transformation, resulting from supernatural visits of Jacob Marley and the Ghosts of Christmases Past, Present and Yet to Come. The novella met with instant success ...Show more
Aesop's Fables by Aesop, Caroline Lawrence, Robert Ingpen
Category: Children's Classics
Aesop's Fables belong to every one of us. They were once simply the words of a slave; a man who lived 600 years before Christ. They were written down by a Greek, and then a Roman, and they spread, like the armies of Rome, across the known world. They were told around heathen campfires, and noble hearths ...Show more
Beginnings and Endings with Lifetimes in Between by Robert Ingpen, Bryan Mellonie
Category: Picture Books
Have you ever wondered why a butterfly lives for only a few weeks? Or why a tree lives for hundreds of year? You may have been sad when someone in your family, or a favourite pet became sick and died. There is a beginning and an ending to everything that is alive. In between is a lifetime. Dying is a mu ...Show more
Boy From Bowral: The Story of Sir Donald Bradman, The by Robert Ingpen
Category: Education
A beautifully illustrated and inspiring account of the life of Donald Bradman to mark the centenary of his birth. Sir Donald Bradman is one of the best known and most respected cricketers in the history of the game. Published to mark the centenary of Bradman's birth, Robert Ingpen charts the history of ...Show more
Christmas Carol (abridged ed. HB) by Charles Dickens; Robert Ingpen (Illustrator)
Category: Children's Classics | Series: Palazzo Abridged Classics Ser.
A Christmas Carol By Charles Dickens I have endeavoured in this Ghostly little book, to raise the Ghost of an Idea, which shall not put my readers out of humour with themselves, with each other, with the season, or with me. May it haunt their houses pleasantly, and no one wish to lay it
Click Go the Shears (PB) by Robert Ingpen
Category: Picture Books | Series: Picture bluegum
A fresh edition of the world's most famous shearing song. Click Go the Shears was probably the most wide pread and enduring of the old-time shearers' songs. It was still frequently to be heard in the sheds of the Western Line of NSW in the last half of the twentieth century. The tune came from an Americ ...Show more
Dreamkeeper (The) by Robert Ingpen
Category: Picture Books | Series: Minedition Classic Ser.
A celebration of books, storytelling, and reading from one of the greatest living children's book creators Somewhere in the place between being awake and asleep lives the Dreamkeeper who uses tricks and traps to lure and capture the creatures of our dreams before they can escape to reality. Presented as ...Show more
Just So Stories by Rudyard Kipling; Robert Ingpen (Illustrator)
Category: Children's Books | Series: Robert Ingpen Illustrated Classics Ser.
"Before the High and Far-Off Times, O my Best Beloved, came the Time of the Very Beginnings..." So commences the series of incredible tales from master storyteller Rudyard Kipling. How did the whale get his throat? Why was the lazy camel lumbered with a hump? And how did the elephant's insatiable curios ...Show more
Looking for Clancy (HB) by A.B. 'Banjo' Paterson and Robert Ingpen
Category: Picture Books
In 1889 the revered Australian folk poet, A.B. 'Banjo' Paterson, first published his ballad, Clancy of the Overflow. The verse achieved immediate popularity and, with the creation of his legendary character, Clancy — a free-spirited stockman — Paterson had summed up the essence of the Australian outback ...Show more
Mustara by Rosanne Hawke & Robert Ingpen
Category: Picture Books
The year is 1875 and Thomas Elder of Beltana Station fits out explorer Ernest Giles' successful expedition to find a way across the desert. Giles eventually returns, having twice traversed Australia on camels. This is a touching story about Emmeline and Taj, an Afghan boy whose father is a camel driver. ...Show more
Radio Rescue ! by Jane Jolly; Robert Ingpen (Illustrator)
Category: Picture Books
Jim and his family live happily on their remote outback station. Yet, sometimes Jim feels lonely. Jim's Dad enjoys droving and shearing his sheep but sometimes he wishes he could chat to a mate. Jim's Mum is always busy with the accounts and looking after the chooks, but she sometimes worries about bein ...Show more