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Forward March

By: Christobel Mattingley

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On Anzac Day in Australia, people of all ages and nationalities gather at war memorials for the dawn service and line city streets for the march. On this national day of mourning and commemoration, they honour the men and women who returned from war and the sons, fathers, grandfathers and good mates who did not.

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1742990800

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9781742990804

Ginger

By: Christobel Mattingley

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Ginger

By: Christobel Mattingley

Hugo and Harriet love all their pets. But for Hugo, his rabbit Ginger is the best pet he's ever had...

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Puffin

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0140387897

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9780140387896

Asmir in Vienna

By: Christobel Mattingley

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Asmir in Vienna

By: Christobel Mattingley

The war in Sarajevo wrenched Asmir and his family from their homeland and worst of all from their beloved father, Muris.

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228

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0140380353

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9780140380354

Escape from Sarajevo

By: Christobel Mattingley

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Escape from Sarajevo

By: Christobel Mattingley

Sequel to No Guns for Asmir Asmir in ViennaUpper Primary.

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0140375252

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9780140375251

No Gun for Asmir

By: Christobel Mattingley

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No Gun for Asmir

By: Christobel Mattingley

War has come to Asmir's home in Sarajevo. He is torn from his father, his home and everything he has known. He becomes a refugee. This is a story of courage you will never forget.

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Penguin Group Australia

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1742530052

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9781742530055

The Magic Saddle

By: Christobel Mattingley,Patricia Mullins

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The Magic Saddle

By: Christobel Mattingley,Patricia Mullins

A little boy's wish for a magic rocking horse that will take him away to faraway places comes true in an unusual way.

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Hachette Children's Books Australia

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0340364211

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9780340364215

King of the Wilderness

The Life of Deny King

By: Christobel Mattingley

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King of the Wilderness

The Life of Deny King

By: Christobel Mattingley

King of the Wilderness recounts the life of Deny King, who made his home in Tasmania’s rugged and spectacular south-west. Acclaimed writer Mattingley spent ten years researching and writing the story of this amazing man. With his blue eyes and husky drawl, Deny King was nationally and internationally celebrated for his exploits on land and sea, for his phenomenal strength and stamina, his ingenuity, humour and kindness, and his unparalleled knowledge of his wild environment. Born in Tasmania in 1909, King had a remarkable childhood on an isolated property in the Huon hinterland. Christobel Mattingley superbly tells the story of his bush upbringing, his long-distance courtship of his wife Margaret, and of his life as a tin-miner, sailor and naturalist on his isolated cove. Through Deny’s continued efforts in conservation, the area around Melaleuca was successfully declared a World Heritage site. He identified several new species of plant, and established a recovery program for the endangered orange-bellied parrot. In later life Deny became a much-admired wildlife painter. King of the Wilderness brings to life one of the great characters of the Australian bush, a man whom walkers would trek for days to visit, who was as famous for his ability to forecast the weather as he was for his knowledge of birds and animals.

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352

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Text Publishing

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1877008419

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9781877008412

The Angel with a Mouth-organ

By: Christobel Mattingley

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The Angel with a Mouth-organ

By: Christobel Mattingley

Just before the glass angel is put on the Christmas tree, Mother describes her experiences as a little girl during World War II when she and her family were refugees and how the glass angel came to symbolize a new beginning in their lives.

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0823405931

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9780823405930

Maralinga, the Anangu Story

By: Yalata,Oak Valley Communities,Christobel Mattingley

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Maralinga, the Anangu Story

By: Yalata,Oak Valley Communities,Christobel Mattingley

Maralinga - the Anangu Story is our story. We have told it for our children, our grandchildren and their children. We have told it for you.' In words and pictures Yalata and Oak Valley community members, with author Christobel Mattingley, describe what happened in the Maralinga Tjarutja lands of South Australia before the bombs and after.

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Allen & Unwin

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1741766486

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9781741766486

The Race

By: Christobel Mattingley

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The Race

By: Christobel Mattingley

Greg's teacher realises he is deaf and is able to help him win a race.

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Scholastic

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1863882251

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9781863882255

My Father's Islands

Abel Tasman's Heroic Voyages

By: Christobel Mattingley

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My Father's Islands

Abel Tasman's Heroic Voyages

By: Christobel Mattingley

It is the 1640s and Claesgen lives in Batavia with her stepmother, Jannetje, waiting weeks, and sometimes months, for her father, Abel Tasman, to come back from his sea voyages. When he returns, Tasman delights his young daughter with tales of treacherous oceans and relentless wild weather, hazards of unseen coral reefs and endless days of empty ocean, encountersboth friendly and hostilewith indigenous peoples, murder and theft, and the threat of smugglers and pirates. Inspired by a 1637 painting of the Tasman family by Jacob Cuyp and meticulously researched, My Fathers Islands is a fictional story told through the voice of Claesgen. Tasmans young daughters curiosity about her fathers life takes the reader on his voyage on the unchartered seas of the Pacific Ocean, in the search for unknown lands and new sources of riches for the powerful trading company, the Dutch East India Company. My FathersIslands opens up to children a significant, but little known, part of Australias historythe European discovery of parts of the Unknown South Land by the heroic explorer and navigator, Abel Janszoon Tasman.

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198

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National Library Australia

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0642277362

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9780642277367

A Brilliant Touch

Adam Forster's Wildflower Paintings

By: Christobel Mattingley

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A Brilliant Touch

Adam Forster's Wildflower Paintings

By: Christobel Mattingley

Adam Forster (1848-1928) began life as Carl Ludwig August Wiarda in East Friesland (Germany). After serving in the Franco-Prussian War in 1870 as a lieutenant, he spent many years as a businessman in South Africa. From there, he migrated to Sydney, in 1891, changing his name to create a more acceptable identity to the British colony. Forster was a skilled botanical artist whose goal was to paint one thousand Australian wildflowers. To this end, on weekends, he travelled all over the Sydney region and country New South Wales to sketch and collect plant specimens.

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162

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National Library Australia

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0642277176

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9780642277176

Seen but Not Heard

Lilian Medland's Birds

By: Christobel Mattingley

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Seen but Not Heard

Lilian Medland's Birds

By: Christobel Mattingley

Lilian Medland has not received until now the recognition she deserves as a painter of birds. Due to world events and circumstances, five important books on birds containing her superb illustrations were never published. Despite such major disappointments, she continued to devote her time and talent to painting, first the birds of the British Isles and, later, those of Australia, her adopted country, where she died in 1955. Even now, she is not mentioned in the Australian Dictionary of Biography in her own right, but only in the entry for her husband, ornithologist Tom Iredale. Seen but Not Heard is the first publication to shine a light on the life and work of this much-overlooked but brilliant Australian natural history artist.

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212

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National Library of Australia

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0642277923

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9780642277923

For the Love of Nature

E.E. Gostelow's Birds & Flowers

By: Christobel Mattingley

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For the Love of Nature

E.E. Gostelow's Birds & Flowers

By: Christobel Mattingley

Ebenezer Edward Gostelow (1866-1944) began his 50-year-long teaching career at the age of 15. He was a keen naturalist and took every opportunity to study the local plants and birds. Gostelow would liven up his blackboards with captivating chalk drawings of birds and flowers. Gostelow's watercolours of the local flora are detailed and delicate. Many depict in minute detail the buds, flowers (often in cross-section), leaves and seeds. On each painting he has recorded common and scientific names, and places and dates of collection. He had an eye for composition, arranging the items in the painting exquisitely. For the Love of Nature presents a short biography, followed by a portfolio section of more than 80 images of birds and flowers.

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National Library Australia

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064227696X

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9780642276964

Lexl and the Lion Party

By: Christobel Mattingley

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Lexl and the Lion Party

By: Christobel Mattingley

Lexl liked going for walks with his grandpa because then he could look for lions. There were lots of lions in the city where they lived and Lexl had names for them all. He wished they could all have a party together and one New Year's Eve his wish comes true.

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Hachette Children's Books Australia

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0340266163

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9780340266168

Battle Order 204

A Bomber Pilot's Story

By: Christobel Mattingley

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Battle Order 204

A Bomber Pilot's Story

By: Christobel Mattingley

David's boyhood dreams of flying led him to England for months of training to be a bomber pilot in World War II at age 19, but his final flight was a nightmare. Seconds after the bombs were released, David was wounded in five places and his fellow pilot Dog was hit. Flying metal slashed his right knee, thigh, and shoulder; the tendons and artery in his right hand were severed; and shrapnel ripped through his thick leather helmet, fracturing his skull as his aircraft went into a dive. This riveting true story takes young people through the events of a young WWII pilot's heroic journey.

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Allen & Unwin

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1741761735

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9781741761733

Chelonia Green Champion of Turtles

Champion of Turtles

By: Christobel Mattingley

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Chelonia Green Champion of Turtles

Champion of Turtles

By: Christobel Mattingley

There in the shimmering green water lay four big oval shapes like a giant's carving dishes. They were patterned in brownish green and had five handles. Suddenly the handles stirred and the giant's carving dishes began to move! Chellie was very small when she first saw the beautiful green turtles with the scientific name so close to her own. Every year she would watch them swim in the sea and make their long journeys up the beach to lay their eggs. But one day, Chellie makes a grim and horrible discovery, a discovery that turns her life upside down and forces her to act.

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1741761808

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9781741761801

First Friend

By: Christobel Mattingley

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First Friend

By: Christobel Mattingley

It's Kerry's first day at her new school. Why does the black dog follow her? More important will Kerry make any new friends?

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0439404967

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Chelonia Green Champion of Turtles

Champion of Turtles

By: Christobel Mattingley

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Champion of Turtles

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1741761808

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Nest Egg

A Clutch of Poems

By: Christobel Mattingley

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Nest Egg

A Clutch of Poems

By: Christobel Mattingley

Christobel is well known as a writer of books for both children and adults. This is her first published collection of verse. Reciters and their audiences will love these poems which sing of life, nature and faith. They are words to read aloud, to remember and to share.

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119

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0975682911

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9780975682913

Maralinga's Long Shadow

Yvonne's Story

By: Christobel Mattingley

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Maralinga's Long Shadow

Yvonne's Story

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Grandfather and Grandmother telling lots of stories. They had to live at Yalata. Their home was bombed. That was their home where the bomb went off. They thought it was mamu tjuta, evil spirits, coming. Everyone was frightened, thinking about people back in the bush. Didn't know what bomb was. Later told it was poison. Parents and grandparents really wanted to go home, used to talk all the time to get their land back.' Yvonne Edwards was just six years old when the first bombs of the nuclear tests at Maralinga were detonated in 1956. The tests continued until 1963 and their consequences profoundly affected her family and community. This powerful book, by award-winning author Christobel Mattingley, honours Yvonne Edwards' legacy as a highly respected artist and community elder.

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208

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Allen & Unwin

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1952533422

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9781952533426

The Battle of the Galah Trees

By: Christobel Mattingley,Gareth Floyd

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The Battle of the Galah Trees

By: Christobel Mattingley,Gareth Floyd

Matt saves a young galah and his growing attachment to the bird leads him to a greater concern - saving the huge gum trees on the recreation ground on which the birds perch.

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0340179252

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9780340179253

Seen but Not Heard

Lilian Medland's Birds

By: Christobel Mattingley

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Lilian Medland's Birds

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National Library of Australia

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0642277923

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9780642277923

Cockawun and Cockatoo

By: Christobel Mattingley

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Cockawun and Cockatoo

By: Christobel Mattingley

Rescued from the building site of Canberra's first Parliament House, two fledgling cockatoos move in with Arthur and his family. Naughty Cockawun survives threats of banishment, and stays with young Arthur, his friend for life. A moving tale for the end of the century inspired by a true story.

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Puffin

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0141301570

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9780141301570

The Windmill at Magpie Creek

By: Christobel Mattingley

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The Windmill at Magpie Creek

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Tim's father has an accident and hurts his back so Tim has to try and conquer his fear of heights and magpies so he can service the farm's most essential machine -the windmill.

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