Ruth Park

An Australian time-travelling classic where Sydney girl Abigail suddenly finds herself back in the early nineteenth century.

Playing Beatie Bow

Three of Ruth Park's best loved books - Missus, The Harp in the South and Poor Man's Orange - are brought together in this volume, tracing the saga of the Darcy family over thirty years. The story has its beginnings in the awkward courtship of dreamily in

The Harp in the South

Two teenage girls return home to the Pacific Island of Rongo only to find that the outside world has begun to encroach on the splendour and secrets of their island paradise.

My Sister Sif

The Muddle-headed Wombat

"The first book in the Harp in the South trilogy'.

Missus

'Now then,' thought Abigail, 'something very weird has happened to me. I'm in the last century. I don't know why, and that doesn't matter. I've got to get back.' Every so often, there comes a story so brilliant and lively and moving that it cannot be left in the past. Rediscover the magic of our country's most memorable children's books in the Penguin Australia Children's Classics series of stories too precious to leave behind.

Australian Children's Classics

Playing Beatie Bow: Australian Children's Classics

The Heartwarming Seguel to The Harp in the South

Poor Man's Orange

The dream of a lowly store clerk in Sydney comes true when a huge balloon arrives from France to promote an advertising campaign, but without a balloonist.

The Gigantic Balloon

Swords and Crowns and Rings

First volume of Ruth Park's autobiography.__

A Fence Around the Cuckoo

As washerwomen to the goldfields, Mother Jerusalem and Currency go where the men search for gold. As miners flock to feverishly pursue the new discoveries at Otago, they follow, with their washing machine and the promise of a partnership. Life on the goldfields in the 1860s is hard and the people have to be tough to survive. As the settlement grows many thousands crowd the hills and river banks looking for gold. Crowding the pages of this masterly adventure novel are a host of these rugged characters – loving, hating, giving birth – wonderfully brought to life by Ruth Park.

The Frost & the Fire

The Frost and the Fire

Australian author. Callie feels all alone Grandpa comes and builds Callie a place all her own.

Callie's Castle

Playing Beatie Row

Rafe Champion

Biography of Australian champion boxer telling of his childhood in the Hunter valley in NSW, his boxing career, his controversial journey to the US during WWI, just before the first conscription referendum and his death in the US in 1917 aged 21. Much of the book is based on material on Darcy collected by Park's late husband, the novelist Darcy Niland. Park is an award-winning author who has written over 50 books, including 'Swords and Crowns and Rings' which won the Miles Franklin Award, and 'A Fence Around the Cuckoo' which won the Age Book of the Year Award for non-fiction. Champion's other publications include 'Discrimination and Intellectual Handicap'.

Home Before Dark

The first volume of autobiography by celebrated writer Ruth Park, author of The Harp in the South, and winner of the Miles Franklin Award, the Age Book of the Year and the Colin Roderick Award.

Text Classics

The game is called Beatie Bow and the children play it for the thrill of scaring themselves. But when Abigail is drawn in, the game is quickly transformed into an extraordinary, sometimes horrifying, adventure as she finds herself transported to a place that is foreign yet strangely familiar . . .

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