Seven Little Australians
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• Author: |
Ethel Turner
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• Year Written: |
1894 |
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• Nationality: |
Australian |
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• Genre: |
Fiction |
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• Cover Artist: |
Hatem Aly
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• Voice Actor: |
Drew de Carvalho
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• Recorded by: |
Antland Productions
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• ISBN |
0-9819988-0-1 |
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• Sound Clip: |
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Kalliope's Review |
G'day Mate! Don't you just love mischievous little ankle biters? No, not galoots, but high-spirited, energetic, real tykes who can cause a kafuffle and entertain you with their antics? This dazzler is filled with seven of the cutest, devilish, most lovable Aussie kids that are ridgie didge and will nick your heart starting in the first chapter. And hearing these beautiful words with an Australian accent means we're cooking with gas. Hooroo! ~ Kalliope |
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Short Book Summary |
Australian novelist and children's author, Ethel Turner penned The Seven Little Australians in 1894. Telling the story of the Wolcott family (particularly the seven mischievous and rebellious children), the book is set in Australia in the 1880's. Frequently getting themselves into sticky situations, the children's adventures have entertained readers around the world for over a hundred years, and made Ms Turner one of Australia's best loved authors. |
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Read First Paragraph |
"Before you fairly start this story I should like to give you just a word of warning. If you imagine you are going to read of model children, with perhaps; a naughtily inclined one to point a moral, you had better lay down the book immediately and betake yourself to 'Sandford and Merton' or similar standard juvenile works. Not one of the seven is really good, for the very excellent reason that Australian children never are. In England, and America, and Africa, and Asia, the little folks may be paragons of virtue, I know little about them. But in Australia a model child is--I say it not without thankfulness--an unknown quantity." |
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“You have to write the book that wants to be written. And if the book will be too difficult for grown-ups, then you write it for children.”
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