Books with author A. B. Paterson

Meet Zigby - the zebra who trots into trouble! When Zigby is given a tent, he and his best friends, Bertie Bird and McMeer the Meerkat, decide to try it out right away! Off they set on a big adventure to the darkest jungle! Zigby and Bertie wait in the tent while McMeer stays outside to build a fire! They become very scared for there are many strange noises outside the tent - something-waiting-to-pounce noises and 'something-lurking-in-the-dark noises. Zigby pokes the looming, dribbling and snarling shape outside the tent - it's McMeer eating their watermelon! As a punishment McMeer is told he can't come back in the tent until the fire is built - and that's when they all hear a really scary noise, 'Boom Boom Boom' it goes, getting closer and closer to the tent. McMeer scrambles in the tent just as an elephant's trunk reaches in to the tent. It's their friend, Ella, come to take them safely home!

Meet Zigby—the zebra who trots into trouble! Zigby opens his toy box and finds a soft giraffe, a hard truck, a yo-yo on a short string, a kite on a long string, and bubbles that float up and down. What is he making with the little bricks? A big tower. Well done, Zigby! Toddlers will love learning about opposites in this gloriously illustrated board book.

Andrew Barton "Banjo" Paterson (1864-1941) was a famous Australian bush poet, journalist and author. He wrote many ballads and poems about Australian life, focusing particularly on the rural and outback areas, including the district around Binalong, New South Wales where he spent much of his childhood. Paterson's more notable poems include Waltzing Matilda (1895), The Man from Snowy River (1890) and Clancy of the Overflow (1889). In 1885, Paterson began submitting and having his poetry published in the Sydney edition of The Bulletin under the pseudonym of "The Banjo", the name of a favourite horse. Paterson, like The Bulletin, was an ardent nationalist, and in 1889 published a pamphlet, Australia for the Australians. In 1890, he wrote The Man from Snowy River, a poem which caught the heart of the nation, and in 1895 had a collection of his works published under that name. Paterson authored two novels; An Outback Marriage (1906) and The Shearer's Colt (1936), wrote many short stories; Three Elephant Power and Other Stories (1917), and wrote a book based on his experiences as a war reporter; Happy Dispatches (1934).

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