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Magic beach

Visit a perfect beach where you can swim, surf, splash through the waves, build sandcastles, beachcomb, explore rock-pools, muck about in boats, fish from the jetty, and build a bonfire under the stars. Visit Magic Beach, where adventure begins. Magic Beach is a long-standing favourite with Australi...

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Main Author: Lester, Alison (Author)
Format: Books Print Book
Language: English
Published: Crows Nest, NSW : Allen & Unwin, 2020.
Edition: 30th anniversary edition.
Subjects:
Beaches > Juvenile fiction.
Seashore > Juvenile fiction.
Imagination > Juvenile fiction.
Picture books.
Summary: Visit a perfect beach where you can swim, surf, splash through the waves, build sandcastles, beachcomb, explore rock-pools, muck about in boats, fish from the jetty, and build a bonfire under the stars. Visit Magic Beach, where adventure begins. Magic Beach is a long-standing favourite with Australian children.
Item Description: Fist published by Allen & Unwin in 1990.
Physical Description: 32 unnumbered pages : colour illustrations ; 23 x 29 cm.
ISBN: 9781760875817
1760875813
Author Notes: Alison Lester was born on November 17, 1952, in Foster, Victoria, Australia. She received a higher diploma in teaching at The Melbourne Teacher's College, where she trained as a secondary arts and crafts teacher. Before she began writing and illustrating her own books, she worked as an art teacher and an illustrator. She is the author and illustrator over 25 picture books. Her first novel, The Quicksand Pony, won an Australian Young Readers Book Award and a Children's Book Council of America (CBCA) Book of the Year Award. Her picture books Clive Eats Alligators and the Journey Home each won a CBCA Picture Book of the Year Award. She was Australia's Inaugural Children's Laureate from 2011-2012. In 2016, she was awarded the Children's Language and Literature Award from the Speech Pathology Australia Book of the Year Awards and inducted into the Speech Pathology Australia's Book of the Year Hall of Fame. She was awarded the 2016 Dromkeen Medal for her body of work and its contribution to the development of children's literature in Australia.

(Bowker Author Biography)

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