Jackie French
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Wombat books (Jackie French) volume 2
Pub. Date
2010, 2009.
Language
English
Description
Through a week of diary entries, a wombat describes his life of sleeping, playing, and helping his mother look for a bigger hole in which to make their home.
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Wombat books (Jackie French) volume 3
Pub. Date
2012.
Language
English
Description
Christmas from a wombat's point of view, including competition for the carrots children have left out for Santa's reindeer.
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English
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Paris, Christmas Eve, 1933
For once it was an accident. Violette did not mean to kill St Nicholas. But there he was, with blood on the cobblestones, and a family waiting for the Christmas Eve miracle that would never come. And her own family expecting her to eat Christmas goose tomorrow at Shillings Hall in England.
Violette Jones had led a life of melodrama since being born in the middle of a war to an espionage agent. But even she had never had...
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December1918
This first peacetime, Christmas should be perfect.
But, this is a ceasefire, not peace. Influenza ravages Europe and the hospital supplies. Sophie ordered six months ago have not arrived from Australia. And, the old woman in Ward 3 will not stop knitting. Yet, even in war-torn Europe, Christmas miracles are possible, as a stranger reveals the extraordinary story of how thousands of female resistance workers sent coded messages, including...
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English
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This story is equal parts Downton Abbey and Wartime Action, with enough romance and intrigue to make it 100% not-put-down-able.'
- Australian Women's Weekly on Miss Lily's Lovely Ladies
Paris,Christmas 1914
Despite her love for Huw, Elspeth will not give up her espionage work while World War One rages. She will wear his ring around her neck, and marry him when the war is over.
But a pregnant unmarried woman cannot, officially,...
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English
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Viewpoint Martin lives in the city with his mum. He's come to walk the boundaries of the farm that's been in his family for generations. It sounds easy, especially as he'll own the land when he gets back. Martin's great-grandfather, Ted, doesn't even want him to walk around the farm's fences, just up the gorge and along the hills.
But up in the gorge Martin meets Meg from almost a century ago and Wullamudulla from thousands of years in the past....
Author
Series
Wombat books (Jackie French) volume 1
Pub. Date
2002.
Language
English
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Description
In his diary, a wombat describes his life of eating, sleeping, and getting to know some new human neighbors.
11) Too many pears!
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Pub. Date
[2003]
Language
English
Description
Pamela the cow loves pears so much that no one else ever has a chance to eat any.