Australian History

Building the Sydney Harbour Bridge
Author: John Nicholson
Pages: 32

This is an informative, well-illustrated book that the technically minded child will find absorbing. It tells the story of the building of a national icon. Age 8-12

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Daughter of the Regiment
Author: Jackie French
Pages: 144

A story about a boy who discovers a hole in time in the chook house. Through it he sees a girl who lives with her parents and the soldiers 150 years ago. When her parents die, she becomes the Daughter of the Regiment... This is based on a true story, of an orphaned child in the 1820s.

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Fair Dinkum Histories #1: Grim Crims and Convicts, 1788-1820
Author: Jackie French
Illus: Peter Sheehan
Pages: 198

Entertaining overview of the early history of European Settlement in Australia. Age 8-12

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Fair Dinkum Histories #2: Shipwreck Sailors and 60000 Years
Author: Jackie French
Illus: Peter Sheehan
Pages: 170

History of Australia since the coming of the first indigenous people. Age 8-12

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Fair Dinkum Histories #3: Rotters and Squatters
Author: Jackie French
Illus: Peter Sheehan
Pages: 192

Charts the transition from penal settlement to sustainable 'free' colonies, before the beginning of the gold rush. Age 8-12

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Fair Dinkum Histories #4: Gold, Graves and Glory
Author: Jackie French
Illus: Peter Sheehan
Pages: 192

Absorbing history of Australia's gold rush. Ages 8-12

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