Books with title Once, in the Australian Outback

What are the beautiful and scary animals you see in the great Australian outback? Allow your child to discover the diversity of life in Australia through pictures and texts. The fact that this book uses real-life pictures, and not cartoons, make it easy for kids to fall in love with every turn of the page. Pictures, after all, make knowledge universal and easier to understand. Buy a copy now!

What are the hundreds of dreaming tracks in the desert? What happens at a corroboree? What would you do with a witchetty grub? Many Australian Aboriginal people live in the enormous region called the Central Desert in Australia. There are a lot of weird and wonderful things in the desert including giant blood-red rocks, wallabies, carpet snakes, and honey ants.

Each title in this new series from "Raintree Perspectives" looks at a different culture where the environment has a major impact on the lives of the people that live there. Looking at aspects of life familiar to young readers, such as food, clothing, school, leisure and celebrations, this series provides an insight into life in various environments around the world. Each title is packed with photography to interest the reader and provide starting points for discussion. It includes features such as recipes, traditional games and craft activities give readers a taste of other cultures.

The empty spaces of the Australian Outback are magical. In the isolation stands the Spirit Rock of Uluru, a sacred place to both the clans of Man and the animals that explore Australia in the Dreamtime before history. Then, Earth is new, and Man and the animals live in harmony with each other. Yet life is not easy. The ground is barren and water scarce. Animals eat each other. Friends need to stay together to survive. And always looming nearby is the dreaded evil...the Goori Goori Bird. Meet Piddle, the playful platypus lass just looking for mates to have fun with, Lulu, a shy koala, Gru, the out-and-about young kangaroo, and Cookie, the crazy kookaburra. Then, there’s Crank—or Charles, as he prefers to be called—the biggest, meanest, crocodile ever. He has a sense of humor second to none, so he thinks. Man befriends them all, sharing his ancestral Dreamtime stories and learning their ways in return while the group does a walk-about in the Red Center of Australia. Along comes Burtie, a wombat who already knows everything that anyone should know. And Winston, the eccentric echidna, following a spider web to kill the Goori Goori Bird. Come along for an adventure in Dreamtime.

The empty spaces of the Australian Outback are magical. The land is sacred to the clans of both Man and the animals that explored Australia in the Dreamtime before history. Then, Earth is new, and Man and the animals can live in harmony with each other--if they will. Life is not easy. The ground is barren and water scarce. Animals eat each other. And evil does exist. Friends need to stay together to survive. Always looming nearby is that ultimate evil: the dreaded Goori Goori Bird… Meet Piddle, the playful platypus lass just looking for mates to have fun with, Lulu, a shy koala, Gru, the out-and-about young kangaroo, and Cookie, a crazy kookaburra. Then, there’s Crank—or Charles, as he prefers to be called—the biggest, meanest crocodile ever. He has a sense of humor second to none, so he thinks. Man befriends them, sharing his ancestral Dreamtime stories and learning their ways in return while the group does a walk-about in the Red Center of Australia. Along comes Burtie, a wombat who already knows everything that anyone should know. And tiny Winston, the eccentric echidna, following a spider web to find the Goori Goori Bird--and kill it. Come along for an adventure in Dreamtime.