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Flash Jim: The astonishing story of the convict fraudster who wrote Australia's first dictionary by Kel Richards
$32.99 AUD
Category: History
The astonishing story of James Hardy Vaux, writer of Australia's first dictionary and first true-crime memoir If you wear 'togs', tell a 'yarn', call someone 'sly', or refuse to 'snitch' on a friend then you are talking like a convict.These words, and hundreds of others, once left colonial magistrates b ...Show more
Goldilocks and the Three Koalas by Kel Richards and Claire Richards (illustrator)
$14.99 AUD
Category: Picture Books | Series: Aussie Gems
Everyone called her 'Goldilocks', although her name was Shirley, because she had a mass of hair, fluffy, blonde and curly. Shirley goes out for a walk one day and comes across a little house in the bush. After letting herself in, thoroughly looking through (and messing up) the house, as well as helping ...Show more
Kel Richards' Dictionary of Phrase and Fable by Kel Richards
$24.95 AUD
Category: Australiana
Are you seeing your mates this arvo because it's been yonks? Do you shout "ave a go, ya mug' to your football team from the stands? Or tell your mate his team has got Buckley's chance of winning the AFL Grand Final? Do you mutter 'stone the crows' when surprised? Perhaps you've got your wobbly boots on? ...Show more
Snowy White and the Seven Wombats by Kel Richards
$9.99 AUD
Category: Picture Books
Down near the Great Australian Bight There lived a girl called Snowy White. This sad girl lived a nightmare not a dream, Her step-mum was 'the Queen of Mean'! Snowy White's nasty step-mother loves dialling up the Magic Mirror on her phone to find out who is the fairest in the bush. Until one day, when t ...Show more
Story of Australian English by Kel Richards
$29.99 AUD
Category: Australiana
The English language arrived in Australia with the first motley bunch of European settlers on 26 January 1788. Today there is clearly a distinctive Australian regional dialect with its own place among the global family of 'Englishes'. How did this come about? Where did the distinctive pattern, accent, a ...Show more
Three Kangaroos Gruff by Kel Richards
$13.99 AUD
Category: Picture Books
Three kangaroo brothers decide one day to cross the bridge to greener pastures, where they each encounter a mean, hungry, and slightly dim-witted Bunyip. The smallest two kangaroos use their wits to escape the monster by promising a bigger, tastier meal on its way...
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