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  • Published: 18 April 2016
  • ISBN: 9781925324914
  • Imprint: Random House Australia
  • Format: EBook
  • Pages: 32

Meet... Don Bradman



A picture book series about the extraordinary men and women who have shaped Australia's history, including cricket's greatest ever batsman, Sir Donald Bradman.

A picture book series about the extraordinary men and women who have shaped Australia’s history, including cricket’s greatest ever batsman, Sir Donald Bradman.

Don Bradman was Australia’s greatest cricketer. This is the story of how he first came to play for Australia, and how his record-breaking feats in the Ashes series became a source of pride and hope during the hard years of the Great Depression.

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: 18 April 2016
  • ISBN: 9781925324914
  • Imprint: Random House Australia
  • Format: EBook
  • Pages: 32

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About the authors

Coral Vass

Coral Vass has always had a passion for writing and telling stories. After studying media at university, she dabbled in script writing, radio drama and video production before working for several years in marketing and publications.

Her first children’s picture book was published in 2011 and she now writes fulltime. Her signature style has a splash of rhythm, a dash of rhyme and is stirred with fun. Coral is also on the team of Kids Book Review. She adores children’s books, visiting schools and inspiring children with a love for literature.

With three cricket-loving sons, Coral was delighted to write a children’s picture book based on the life of Sir Donald Bradman. ‘He was an extraordinary sportsman, who shaped Australia's history. It is only fitting he be included in the Meet… series.’

Brad Howe

Brad Howe grew up in Sydney, Australia on a healthy diet of skateboarding, music and drawing. He spent his salad days in various animation studios as a layout artist, working on TV programs, commercials and computer games. He studied graphic design at Melbourne’s RMIT and has since gone on to illustrate for clients and publications including Beams, Bicycling Magazine, Daptone Records, Esquire, Fretboard Journal, GQ Australia, J Sound and Recording, Straight No Chaser and Wax Poetics among others. Brad lives in Amagasaki, Japan, with his wife and three children, where he is a teacher and completed an MA in linguistics in 2014. Meet... Don Bradman is his first children's book.

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