Koala Lou (Mem Fox; Illustrated by Pamela Lofts)

Koala Lou

Mem Fox; Illustrated by Pamela Lofts

Blurb: There was once a baby koala, so soft and round that all who saw her loved her. Her name was Koala Lou.

Koala Lou is the first born in a large family. She feels sad because her mother seems too busy to pay any attention. Perhaps if she wins the tree-climbing at the Bush Olympics her mother might notice her again... Koala Lou starts training right away!

An Australian classic by the author and illustrator of Hunwick's Egg.

ISBN: 9780734309839 (Paperback)

Year: 1988

Publisher: Puffin

Pages: 32 (Fiction)

Links

1. Buy from Amazon

2. Author's official site

3. Buy from the Book Shuttle

4. Watch the book being read on Youtube

5. Publisher's page for the book

Uncanny! (Paul Jennings)

Uncanny!

Paul Jennings

Blurb: Uncanny! You wouldn't think a kid could eat so much.

Guts staggered and tottered. He opened his mouth. The kids in the front row screamed as the putrid waterfall splashed down. All over Rabbit.

It's uncanny...

Going inside a dead whale. Turning into a dung beetle. Catching someone else's tattoos. Seeing a flying dog.

ISBN: 0140371028 (Paperback)

Year: 1988

Publisher: Puffin

Pages: 143 (Fiction)

Links

1. Wikipedia page for the author

2. Buy from Amazon

3. Publisher's page for the book

4. Goodreads page

5. Wikipedia page for the book

The Cape Ann (Faith Sullivan)

The Cape Ann

Faith Sullivan

Blurb: Lark Erhardt, the six-year-old narrator of The Cape Ann, and her fiercely independent mother dream of owning their own house; they have their hearts set on the Cape Ann, chosen from a house catalog. But when Lark's father's gambling threatens the down payment her mother has worked so hard to save, Lark's mother takes matters into her own indomitable hands. A disarmingly involving portrait of a family struggling to stay together through the Great Depression, The Cape Ann is an unforgettable story of life from a child's-eye view.

ISBN: 0140119795 (Paperback)

Year: 1988

Publisher: Penguin

Pages: 342 (Fiction)

Links

1. Goodreads page for the book

2. Commentary on the book

3. Buy from Amazon

4. Excerpt of the book

5. Author's official site

The Spycatcher Trial (Malcolm Turnbull)

The Spycatcher Trial

Malcolm Turnbull

Blurb: It started with M15 seeking to muzzle an old spy..It ended with the British Government on trial.

In 1985 an ex-intelligence officer signed a contract for the publication of his memoirs with an Australian publisher. Mrs Thatcher was having none of it, and Peter Wright was pursued through the courts of the English-speaking world. Wright, equally tenacious, remained determined to see his book appear.

In early 1986 a brilliant young Sydney lawyer took up the Spycatcher case - and was given a one per cent chance of winning. The ensuing three-week trial, the centrepiece of that young lawyer's own account of the affair, turned the Spycatcher case in favour of Wright and made his book an international bestseller.

In the Spycatcher Trial Malcolm Turnbull is able to describe from the inside the fascinating conduct of a celebrated legal battle. He discusses Wright's motives in wishing to publish and those of the British Government in relentlessly seeking to stop him. And, above all, he recreates the drama of the trial that caught the world's imagination.

ISBN: 1863300082 (Paperback)

Year: 1988

Publisher: Mandarin

Pages: 228 (Non-Fiction)

Links

1. Wikipedia page on the author

2. Wikipedia page on the debated book

3. ABC article on the issue

4. Author's official site

5. Buy from Amazon

Jesse (Tim Winton and Maureen Prichard)

Jesse

Written by Tim Winton and Illustrated by Maureen Prichard

Blurb: Jesse lives on a farm near a forest. Early one morning, as his parents still sleep, Jesse slips on his gumboots and goes outside - through the garden, past the fence, and out to explore the friendly, frightening world beyond...

This is a warm, touching story of a child encountering - as only a small child can - the mysteries and marvels of the countryside.

Tim Winton is one of Australia's most highly acclaimed writers of fiction. This is his first picture book.

ISBN: 0140543295 (Paperback)

Year: 1988

Publisher: Puffin Books

Pages: 24 (Fiction)

Links

1. Publisher's page for the book

2. Google books page

3. PDF file on the author

4. Goodreads page for the book

5. Buy from QBD

Grinning with the Gipper: A Celebration of the Wit, Wisdom, and Wisecracks of Ronald Reagan

Grinning with the Gipper: A Celebration of the Wit, Wisdom, and Wisecracks of Ronald Reagan

Edited by James S. Denton with Peter Schweizer

Blurb: After eight years as President, the one thing on which both his friends and enemies concur is that Ronald Reagan has a sense of humor. It's not just that he's funny. We've had plenty of funny Presidents lately. Some looked funny. Most acted funny. And there was definitely something funny going on with one or two of them. But President Reagan has a sense of humor as that phrase should be defined. Ronald Reagan not only gets laughs through his quips, jokes and stories, he also communicates a sense of proportion, a sense of how life is and always will be. Grinning with the Gipper celebrates the most beguiling talent of one of our most popular Presidents.

Selections from The Wit, Wisdom and Wisecracks of Ronald Reagan:

- 'I've been taking some flak about ordering the production of the B-1. How did I know it was an airplane? I thought it was vitamins for the troops'

- 'Have you heard the Communists now have a million-dollar lottery for their people? The winner gets a dollar a year for a million years.'

- 'I have to admit we considered making one final shipment to Iran, but no one could figure out how to get Sam Donaldson in a crate.'

- 'Now, you know, I have to say, of course, there are some things that are current today and sweeping the country that I haven't had time to get familiar with - Pac Man, for example. I don't know about him. I asked about it, and somebody told me that it was a round thing that gobbled up money. I thought that was Tip O'Neil.'

ISBN: 0871132729 (Paperback)

Year: 1988

Publisher: The Atlantic Monthly Press

Pages: 117 (Non-Fiction)

Links

1. Buy at Amazon

2. Sun Sentinel Article

3. Ronald Reagan Wikipedia Page

4. Reagan's White House Page

5. National Forum Foundation article by James S. Denton