Title The brown land was green / Mavis Thorpe Clark ; illustrated by Harry Hudson

Published Melbourne : William Heinemann, 1956

Copies

Location	Call no.	Vol.	Availability
W'PONDS CRC	J Cla		AVAILABLE
MELB SPCBC	819 Clark Mav/Blw		LIB USE ONLY

Description 219 pages : illustrations ; 21 cm Series Marcie Muir collection of Australian children's books. ANL Summary An emigrant family faces the problems of settling in Victoria in the 1840s ; they are particularly shocked by the brutal dispossession of the Aboriginal people Audience For children Subject Aboriginal Australians -- Treatment -- Australia -- Western District (Vic.) -- Juvenile fiction. Aboriginal Australians, Treatment of -- Australia -- Western District (Vic.) -- Juvenile fiction. Children's stories, Australian. Frontier and pioneer life -- Australia -- Juvenile fiction. Frontier and pioneer life -- Australia -- Victoria -- Portland -- Juvenile fiction Girls -- Conduct of life -- Juvenile fiction. SUBJECT Victoria -- History http://id.loc.gov/authorities/subjects/sh86007556 -- 1834-1851 -- Juvenile fiction Western District (Vic.) http://id.loc.gov/authorities/names/n91102452 -- History http://id.loc.gov/authorities/subjects/sh99005024 -- Juvenile fiction. http://id.loc.gov/authorities/subjects/sh99001687 Genre/Form Fiction. Author Hudson, Harry, illustrator

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