Country Town
Isolde Martyn, Robyn Ridgeway, Louise Hogan
Happy times, sad times, boom times and gloom times! From the First Peoples’ camp at the river crossing in the 1820s through to Carols by Candlelight at the showground in today’s world, this is a decade by decade wonderfully illustrated story of a small country community.
Country Town is an engaging and digestible introduction to learning history, full of playful and colloquial language.
Country town captures a monumental period of Australia’s history neatly linking to school curriculum and is an essential book in any school library for ages 9-12 years old.
- Awards
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2024 - CBCA Winner of Eve Pownall Award, NSW Premier’s History Awards Shorlist
- Reading Age
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8+
- Release
- Sep-2023
- ISBN
- 9781922696342
- RRP (AUD)
- $29.95
- Pages
- 48
- Format
- Paperback & Hardback
- Category
- Non-Fiction
Isolde Martyn, Robyn Ridgeway, Louise Hogan
Isolde Martyn, Robyn Ridgeway, Louise Hogan
Ford Street Publishing
Ford Street Publishing is a small independent Australian publisher of books for children and young adults. Since its establishment in 2007, Ford Street has published over 140 titles ranging from picture books through to middle-grade and young adult novels.
