29 títulos para "Linda Ruth Brooks"

Verse

Brooks, Linda;Brooks, Linda

A woman waits in the evening, a son helps a homeless man, a mother reflects on loss, an uncle?s war service as a stretcher bearer is honoured. Two babes on the cusp of the heavens contemplate what life will be when they are born. A mother watches a grown son sleep, a grandmother witnesses the birth...

The frog that hiccupped

Brooks, Linda Ruth;Brooks, Linda Ruth

Fraser is a shy frog. He has just moved with his mum and dad to a new pond. Meeting new frogs make him nervous. When he?s nervous he hiccups. When he hiccups all sorts of things happen. How will he make new friends? ?

Beth's Christmas Wish

Brooks, Linda Ruth

Seven year old Beth Renshaw has waited three long years for her father to come home from the Second World War. Three year old twins, Susie and Sarah only know their father from a photo on the mantelpiece.It?s December 1945 and the war is over, but there is still chaos in Europe. Many families don?t...

A TABBY NEVER FORGETS

BROOKS, LINDA RUTH

Tabby was the tiniest kitten Chelsea ever had.She fed the kitten with a small syringe. Tabby needed so much love. Tabby meowed and cried through the night.Chelsea woke and fed her. It wasn?t long before Tabby put weight on. She had a big appetite for a tiny kitten. She also had a talent for mischief...

the knowing

Brooks, Linda Ruth

Miranda couldn?t have told anyone when the knowing began. It was an essence as familiar as her own face in the mirror, or the colour of her eyes. She had always known too much, felt too much.She wondered how it was that feeling deeply connected to the inner parts of other people?s lives could make h...

Waltzing Matilda

Brooks, Linda Ruth / Tregellis, Jo / Norton, Victoria

In this uniquely Australian anthology of short stories we traverse the country known by Australians as the ‘wide brown land’. You will be introduced to a Bachelors & Spinsters Ball, memories of yesteryear’s Cracker Nights, Aussie nicknames and the dangers of our wildl...

Under the Bracken Fern

Brooks, Linda Ruth

Georgia hides under the bracken fern. Her mother hits her to make her good. The nice man down the road gives her lollies that make her sleepy. Sometimes her brother Jackson hides her in his wardrobe. Her best friend Mittens the cat, listens to all her secrets.      On her first day at...

I'm not broken, I'm just different & Wings to fly

Brooks, Ms Linda Ruth

Living with someone on the autism spectrum is like watching a child trying to play hopscotch when they can’t see the squares, and everyone else can. This new compilation of I'm not broken, I'm just different & Wings to fly takes us to the heart of living with a child with on t...

The great Australian shed

Brooks, Linda Ruth;Townsend, George;Tarling, Lowell

In Australia there are a number of iconic buildings and structures, including the Sydney Opera House, Sydney Harbour Bridge and a number of churches and town halls.Australian sheds are equally iconic and represent a way of life unique to this country. Our sheds have many forms ranging from hay sheds...

Callan the Chameleon

Brooks, Linda Ruth;Brooks, Linda Ruth;Attwood, Tony

Callan the Chameleon lived in a tall lilly pilly tree with pink tipped leaves. The leaves of the lilly pilly tree grow very thick. Callan felt safe in the rustling tree that was home.Uniquely Australian, this story revolves around Callan and his bush animal friends, Emily the Echidna, Kyle the Koala...

The Unprize

Brooks, Linda Ruth

They met on New Year?s Eve?the most romantic night of the year. Jack Devon is in town to present a prize on the Sydney Harbour foreshore. He?s enchanted by a free-spirted woman organising a photo shoot for her friend?s catering business. She foils his attempts to charm her and asks if he was named a...

Prose

Brooks, Linda;Brooks, Linda

There?s a randomness and whimsy to this collection, and anyone familiar with Linda, will expect exactly that. It is also represented in the cover art?a zentangle, aptly name ?Goldfish in the Garden?.Prose begins at a nurses? reunion where the usual entertainments slip away as Pathfinder Robyn astoun...