Allen & Unwin, 2012. — 142 p. — ISBN: 1742699154 (ISBN13: 9781742699158) A string of vignettes and short stories of life in a Victorian country township, told in the voice of the author as a boy.
Allen & Unwin Australia, 2012. — 256 p. — ISBN: 1743430949 (ISBN13: 9781743430941) A compassionate story of workers in a shoe factory during the Depression
Penguin Australia, 2012. — 314 p. — ISBN13: 9780670076840 I Can Jump Puddles 1 I Can Jump Puddles is Alan Marshall's story of his childhood - a happy world in which, despite his crippling poliomyelitis, he plays, climbs, fights, swims, rides and laughs. His world was the Australian countryside early last century: rough-riders, bushmen, farmers and tellers of tall stories - a...
Allen & Unwin Australia, 2012. — 274 p. — ISBN: 174331373X (ISBN13: 9781743313732) I Can Jump Puddles 3 The moving account of Alan Marshall's attempts to establish himself as a writer during the Depression. There lay over Melbourne, as over all Australia, a mass hopelessness that touched everyone, even those who felt secure. It was impossible to escape being affected by it. In...
Allen & Unwin Australia, 2012. — 512 p. — ISBN: 1743315384 (ISBN13: 9781743315385) Alan Marshall has a place in the hearts of all Australians, for he wrote about his fellow country-people with a rare wit, humour, compassion and deep understanding. He spent his lifetime living among them in the bush and in the cities. He travelled throughout the countryside, recording them,...
Allen & Unwin Australia, 2012. — 196 p. — ISBN: 1743314868 (ISBN13: 9781743314869) I Can Jump Puddles 2 This is the Grass is Alan Marshall's moving sequel to the much-loved Australian classic I Can Jump Puddles. First published in 1962, it tells the story of Marshall's adolescence, as he searches for work amid the rough and tumble of 1920s Melbourne. From Wallaby Creek in...
Thomas Nelson (Australia) Limited, 1969. — 165 p. — ISBN: 0017002901 "This modern Australian fairy tale features Australian folk heroes alongside the witches, giants and princesses of tradition. Daily trips to sweep the moon clean of Russian and American cameras and mechanical shovels seem quite normal when the method of transport is the age-old witch's broomstick. The boy hero...
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