Best Australian Trucking Stories There has never before been a collection of stories about the fascinating world of the Aussie trucking business, yet the characters, humour, tragedy and history of this enormous industry, so vital to our nations everyday life, make for a wonderful variety of stories that will have readers laughing and crying as they re evaluate the importance of the truckie in our nation's history and development.

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Best Australian Racing Stories captures this passion on the page, bringing together in one volume the finest racing stories and verses from some of Australia's best-loved writers. Here are tales of childhood dreams, great achievements, victory in adversity, tragedy and heartbreak. There are stories of crazy schemes and hilarious events that could only happen on an Australian racetrack. There are colourful, larger-than-life characters immediately recognizable to us all. There is also a fine collection of stirring ballads, hilarious verses and poignant and moving poetry.

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Jim's Latest book is a NEW collection of the best racing stories from Australia's long love affair with thoroughbreds.

Best Australian Racing Stories captures this passion on the page, bringing together in one volume the finest racing stories and verses from some of Australia's best-loved writers. Here are tales of childhood dreams, great achievements, victory in adversity, tragedy and heartbreak. There are stories of crazy schemes and hilarious events that could only happen on an Australian racetrack. There are colourful, larger-than-life characters immediately recognizable to us all. There is also a fine collection of stirring ballads, hilarious verses and poignant and moving poetry.

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From Banjo Paterson to Spike Milligan, Rudyard Kipling to Hilaire Belloc, Lewis Carol to CJ Dennis - the most definitive collection of verse ever collected for Australian children.

The Big Book of Verse for Aussie Kids is the most comprehensive, authoritative and definitive book of poetry ever published in Australia for children.

In this wonderfully eclectic collection the famous rub shoulders with schoolyard rhymes, alphabets and nonsense verse. Here old favourites, that have been loved for generations, sit side by side an impressive selection of modern verse that kids will enjoy reading, reciting, laughing at, acting out and hearing, again and again.

There are poems to delight and develop every child's sense of humour; poems to inspire and stretch every child's imagination, verses to provoke a sense of wonder in every child; playground verses that have been handed down over countless years; and the largest collection of nonsense verse ever assembled.

All in all over 600 of the best verses for children in the English language have been especially chosen for Aussie kids. Unashamedly the emphasis is on Australian history and heritage - from Banjo Paterson and C J Dennis right down to Max Fatchen and Colin Thiel - but Hilaire Belloc, Rudyard Kipling, Spike Milligan and Robert Louis Stevenson are never far away.

1 Adventure, mystery and romance
2 All around Australia
3 Alphabets
4 Birds
5 Cautionary tales
6 Chants and games
7 Childhood
8 Crazy creatures
9 Crazy English - fun with words
10 Creatures

The ABC Book of Australian Country Music is much more than a listing of musicians and festivals. It is a fascinating look at the artists, groups, festivals and awards, and provides a detailed insight into the Australian country music industry.

This comprehensive guide includes all the legends, favourites and rising stars of the country music scene. It also covers everything from the international success of Keith Urban and iconic Aussie status of John Williamson to the spectacular rise of Kasey Chambers, and lists all the Golden guitar winners since the beginning of the Country Music Awards of Australia.

The ABC Book of Australian Country Music is the perfect companion to the hugely successful ABC Radio program, Saturday Night Country.

This is the largest collection of Aussie rhymed verse ever published. All the greats and favourites are included in twenty-six browsable themed sections. There is a poem here for every mood and every occasion - from ridiculous and hilarious doggerel to deeply moving and evocative literature.

In his exhaustive research and travels, Jim Haynes has unearthed every Aussie poem you ever heard recited or can remember one line of from school! He has included lost treasures from the glory days of The Bulletin, previously undiscovered and unpublished gems from the War Memorial Archives and many new verses from the popular writers of the ‘bush verse’ renaissance of the past twenty years.

This is not only a great reference book, it is the reciters’ bible.