Young Digger by Anthony Hill

Young Digger

Author: Anthony Hill

The dark clouds returned and gathered about the boy. His eyes grew distant, and he began to tremble. He heard not only shells exploding, but the cries of dying men . . . He was stumbling over churned earth, looking into the face of an officer, bloodied red as the poppies, ripped apart in the Flanders mud . . .

A small boy, an orphan of the First World War, wanders into the Australian airmen's mess in Germany, on Christmas Day in 1918. A strange boy, with an uncertain past and an extraordinary future, he became a mascot for the air squadron and was affectionately named 'Young Digger'. And in one of the most unusual incidents ever to emerge from the battlefields of Europe after the Great War, this solitary boy was smuggled back to Australia by air mechanic Tim Tovell, a man who cared for the boy so much that he was determined, however risky, to provide Young Digger with a new family and a new life in a new country, far from home.

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The Story of Billy Young

By Anthony Hill

The compelling story of Billy Young, a POW in Asia at the age of 15 years

Published: 25/07/2012

Format: Paperback

ISBN: 9780670076178

RRP: $29.99

The Story of Billy Young

By Anthony Hill

The compelling story of Billy Young, a POW in Asia at the age of 15 years

Published: 25/07/2012

Format: Digital

ISBN: 9781742536224

Lucy's Cat & the Rainbow Birds

By Jane Tanner & Anthony Hill

Lucy has a garden filled with beautiful rainbow birds.
She also has a tabby cat called Artemis, and one day . . .

POUNCE!

Lucy needs to stop Artemis catching the birds, but how?
Will Artemis and the birds ever live together in peace?

Find out in this cheeky read-aloud tale bt two of Australia's
favourite creators of books for children.

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Published: 02/02/2009

Format: Paperback

ISBN: 9780143501602

RRP: $14.95

Soldier Boy

By Anthony Hill

On 28 June 1915, young James Martin sailed from Melbourne aboard the troopship Berrima – bound, ultimately, for Gallipoli. He was just fourteen years old.

Soldier Boy is Jim's extraordinary true story, the story of a young and enthusiastic school boy who became Australia's youngest known Anzac.

Four months after leaving his home country he would be numbered among the dead, just one of so many...

On 28 June 1915, young James Martin sailed from Melbourne aboard the troopship Berrima – bound, ultimately, for Gallipoli. He was just fourteen years old.

Soldier Boy is Jim's extraordinary true...

Published: 02/04/2001

Format: Paperback

ISBN: 9780141003306

RRP: $19.95

Captain Cook's Apprentice

By Anthony Hill

Published: 01/09/2008

Format: Digital

ISBN: 9781742283807

Animal Heroes

By Anthony Hill

Here are twenty-one fascinating stories about the forgotten heroes of war: animals who have served beside Australian forces.

These are all animals that dazzle with their courage and loyalty – or sometimes just by being lovable. Whether it's a rooster guarding his battalion during the First World War or a mine-detecting dolphin in Iraq, they make the difficult lives of soldiers so much more bearable...

Here are twenty-one fascinating stories about the forgotten heroes of war: animals who have served beside Australian forces.

These are all animals that dazzle with their courage and loyalty – or...

Published: 01/03/2005

Format: Paperback

ISBN: 9780143003809

RRP: $19.95

Captain Cook's Apprentice

By Anthony Hill

'What are they saying?' Isaac asked Taiata.
'They are calling us tupua . . . goblins and demons.'
'And what else?'
'They say they will come back and kill us all.'

When young Isaac Manley sailed on the Endeavour from England in 1768, no one on board knew if a mysterious southern continent existed in the vast Pacific Ocean. It would be a voyage full of uncertainties and terrors.

'What are they saying?' Isaac asked Taiata.
'They are calling us tupua . . . goblins and demons.'
'And what else?'
'They say they will come back and kill us all.'

When young Isaac Manley sailed on the...

Published: 01/09/2008

Format: Paperback

ISBN: 9780143004820

RRP: $19.95

Lucy's Cat & the Rainbow Birds

By Jane Tanner & Anthony Hill

Lucy has a garden filled with beautiful rainbow birds. She also has a tabby cat called Artemis, and one day . . .

POUNCE!

Lucy needs to stop Artemis catching the birds, but how? Will Artemis and the birds ever live together in peace?

Find out in this cheeky read-aloud tale by two of Australia's favourite creators of books for children.

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Lucy has a garden filled with beautiful rainbow birds. She also has a tabby cat called Artemis, and one day . . .

POUNCE!

Lucy needs to stop Artemis catching the birds, but how? Will Artemis and the birds...

Published: 05/02/2007

Format: Hardback

ISBN: 9780670029167

RRP: $26.95

Harriet

By Anthony Hill & Coral Tulloch

Published: 28/08/2006

Format: Digital

ISBN: 9781742280042

Harriet

By Anthony Hill & Coral Tulloch

'I wonder what you've seen and done, Harriet, over all those years?' asks Ellie.

The Tortoise pokes her head a little and blinks one naughty eye.

'Tell me!'

Hatched on an island in the Galapagos, Harriet enjoyed an enchanted life, as generations of tortoises had before her. Then someone took her away . . .

Harriet ended up in Queensland, where she attracted increasing crowds of visitors, all...

'I wonder what you've seen and done, Harriet, over all those years?' asks Ellie.

The Tortoise pokes her head a little and blinks one naughty eye.

'Tell me!'

Hatched on an island in the Galapagos...

Published: 28/08/2006

Format: Paperback

ISBN: 9780143302087

RRP: $17.95

Young Digger

By Anthony Hill

Published: 02/09/2002

Format: Digital

ISBN: 9781742283418

Soldier Boy

By Anthony Hill

Published: 02/04/2001

Format: Digital

ISBN: 9781742283128

The Burnt Stick

By Anthony Hill & Mark Sofilas

John Jagamarra grew up at the Pearl Bay Mission for Aboriginal children in the far north-west. It was beautiful there, but it wasn't home. This is a tale for everyone about the pain of separation, and the strength of the human spirit.

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Published: 03/06/1996

Format: Paperback

ISBN: 9780140369298

RRP: $16.95