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  • Published: 1 August 2016
  • ISBN: 9780857980090
  • Imprint: Random House Australia Children's
  • Format: Paperback
  • Pages: 36
  • RRP: $16.99

Meet... Banjo Paterson




A picture book series about the extraordinary men and women who have shaped Australia's history, including the bush poet Banjo Paterson.

A picture book series about the extraordinary men and women who have shaped Australia's history, including the bush poet Banjo Paterson.

Banjo Paterson is one of Australia’s most loved poets. This is the story of how he came to write his legendary ballads ‘The Man from Snowy River’ and ‘Waltzing Matilda’.

From Ned Kelly to Saint Mary MacKillop; Captain Cook to Banjo Paterson, the Meet ... series of picture books tells the exciting stories of the men and women who have shaped Australia's history.

  • Published: 1 August 2016
  • ISBN: 9780857980090
  • Imprint: Random House Australia Children's
  • Format: Paperback
  • Pages: 36
  • RRP: $16.99

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About the authors

Kristin Weidenbach

Kristin Weidenbach writes popular non-fiction focused on Australian history.
Her picture book for children, Tom the Outback Mailman, illustrated by Timothy Ide, won the CBCA Eve Pownall Award for Information Book of the Year 2013.
She is the author of the adult titles Rock Star: the Story of Reg Sprigg and the Australian bestseller Mailman of the Birdsville Track: the Story of Tom Kruse, which has sold over 100,000 copies since publication in 2003.
Her commissioned titles include Blue Flames, Black Gold: the story of Santos and First Watch: 40 years of the Cruising Yacht Club of SA.
Kristin is a PhD immunologist who switched to a writing career after completing postdoctoral research at Stanford University in California. She is the author of several academic publications and the recipient of an award from the International Association of Forensic Sciences.
As a science writer, Kristin has written for Science magazine and for publications from Harvard and Stanford Medical Schools. Her magazine articles have been awarded prizes from the Council for the Advancement and Support of Education, and from the Association of American Medical Colleges. She has also written for Outback magazine and Australian Geographic.

James Gulliver Hancock

James Gulliver Hancock is a Sydney-born illustrator who has travelled the world drawing obsessively since he was a little boy. His previous books include Meet… Banjo Paterson, Lonely Planet’s Not for Parents: How to be a World Explorer, and his All the Buildings in … series.

Praise for Meet... Banjo Paterson

Weidenbach's use of language plays to the reader’s senses – they can almost feel the ‘tickle of a foal’s nose’, smell the ‘scent of gum trees’ and hear the ‘crackling of a camp fire’. This non-fiction series about real-life characters is one that stands out.

Anya Whitelaw, Western Advocate

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