Title A foreign father / Paul Metzler ; illustrated by Sandy Bishop

Published Sydney : Hodder and Stoughton, 1978

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Location	Call no.	Vol.	Availability
MELB SPCBC	819 Metzle Pau/Aff		LIB USE ONLY

Description 200 pages : illustrations ; 22 cm Summary As a German wool buyer in Sydney, Paul Gerder has a difficult time during the war years of the Great War 1914-1918. When it's finally over, he takes his family away to a new life on a banana farm in Queensland. His children, Dot and Robert, grow doubtful and uneasy over their magnificent but foreign father who is so different from everyone else, but finally come to see him clearly Notes Children's stories in English. Australian writers, 1945-. Texts (ANB/PRECIS SIN 000006x) Audience For children Subject Interpersonal relations -- Juvenile fiction. Country life -- Australia -- Juvenile fiction. Fathers -- Juvenile fiction. Families -- Juvenile fiction. Genre/Form Children's stories, Australian Domestic fiction. Australian multicultural literature collection. Children's Book Council of Australia (CBCA) collection. Author Bishop, Sandy, illustrator ISBN 0340231599 :

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