Books with title Meet Ned Kelly

The perfect book for kids learning about Ned Kelly and his gang. Ned Kelly was a notorious bushranger. He lived in Australia's earliest days. He was daring and clever and bold. In a suit made of iron he battled police. And his story is still being told. This is the first book in a picture book series about the extraordinary men and women who have shaped Australia's history.

Ned Kelly was a notorious bushranger. He lived in Australia's earliest days. He was daring and clever and bold. In a suit made of iron, he battled police. And his story is still being told. From Ned Kelly to Saint Mary Mackillop, Captain Cook to Douglas Mawson, the Meet... series of picture books tells the exciting stories of the men and women who shaped Australian history.

This is the true story of Australia's most famous 'bushranger', Ned Kelly. Ned was born in Victoria Colony in 1854. His father died when he was eleven, and his family were poor Irish Catholics. From an early age, he and his brother Dan were always in trouble with the police. They finally became outlaws, living in the outback, where they were joined by two friends, Joe Byrne and Steve Hart. Although the Kelly Gang only ever robbed two banks, the four men became famous for their opposition to the police of Victoria and for the help they gave to the poor and oppressed people of that colony.This is a true Robin Hood story from a very different part of the world, and was originally written in simple English for learners.

Edward "Ned" Kelly (December 1854– 11 November 1880) was an Australian bushranger of Irish descent. Kelly was born in the British colony of Victoria as the third of eight children to an Irish convict from County Tipperary and an Australian mother with Irish parentage. His father died after serving a six-month prison sentence, leaving Kelly, then aged 12, as the eldest male of the household. The Kellys were a poor selector family who saw themselves as downtrodden by the Squattocracy and as victims of police persecution. Arrested in 1870 for associating with bushranger Harry Power, Kelly was convicted of stealing horses and imprisoned for three years. He fled to the bush in 1878 after being indicted for the attempted murder of a police officer at the Kelly family's home. After he, his brother Dan, and two associates fatally shot three policemen, the Government of Victoria proclaimed them outlaws.

Ned Kelly, born into a large family of Irish settlers in Australia, grew up bad. Cool and defiant, he graduated from horse-stealing to cattle-thieving to 'robbery under arms'. Then, at 23, he shot three policeman dead. For the next two years, Ned was on the run - the most wanted criminal in the colony of Victoria, the man who would 'rid Australia of its corrupt, violent police'. This is the story of Ned's life and of how, despite being a known murderer, he became one of Australia's greatest heroes.