Author | Leslie Rees |
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Language | English |
Genre | Children's fiction |
Publisher | John Sands |
Publication date | 1946 |
Publication place | Australia |
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Pages | 43pp |
Preceded by | Gecko : The Lizard Who Lost His Tail |
Followed by | Digit Dick and the Tasmanian Devil |
The Story of Karrawingi the Emu (1946) is an illustrated children's book by Australian author Leslie Rees and illustrator Walter Cunningham. It won the Children's Book of the Year Award: Older Readers in 1946.[1]
The book tells the story of the life of the noble Australian Emu packed with action, adventure and the sense of racing speed that is part of an emu's heritage.
A note in The Western Mail stated: "The prose and the illustrations unfold the life story of an emu, giving a spice of adventure, a little natural history and a great deal of realism in story-telling and ability in illustration."[2]
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