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A Little Bush Maid
Mary Grant Bruce
Book Overview:
An Australian children's classic about life on a ranch around the same time of A Little Florida Lady, with a similarly plucky tomboy heroine. Also, like the latter story, expect some racial stereotyping of Asian and Aboriginal characters. This originally ran as a newspaper serial and it shows in the episodic nature of the chapters, such as a vivid trip to the circus sandwiched by talk of a mad killer and an unexpectedly sentimental ending.
An Australian children's classic about life on a ranch around the same time of A Little Florida Lady, with a similarly plucky tomboy heroine. Also, like the latter story, expect some racial stereotyping of Asian and Aboriginal characters. This originally ran as a newspaper serial and it shows in the episodic nature of the chapters, such as a vivid trip to the circus sandwiched by talk of a mad killer and an unexpectedly sentimental ending.
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"We cross the creek up here," Jim said, "and make 'cross country a bit. It saves several miles."
"How do you cross? Bridge?" queried Wally.
"Bridge!—don't grow such things in this part of the world," laughed Jim. "No, there's a place where it's easy enough to ford, a little way up. There are plenty of places fordable, if you only know them, on this creek; but a number of them are dangerous, because of deep holes and boggy places. Father lost a good horse in one of those bogs, and to look at the place you'd only have thought it a nice level bit of grassy ground."
"My word!" Wally whistled. "What a bit of hard luck!"
"Yes, it was, rather," Jim said. "It made us careful about crossing, I can . . . Read More
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Community Reviews
This series is my "childhood love". I own this series from when I was little and I refused for my mum to ever hand it down or even lend it to anyone else. It was my story - my adventure - my daydream material when I was 9-10. Stuff Nancy Drew or the Hardy Boys - these guys were real. :)
Dated, dull and racist.
There are other books of this era, by other authors (Seven Little Australians, Secret Garden, What Katy Did) from Australia and around the world that were well written, well crafted, and uniquely represented both Anglo and exotic (to their target audience) locales peppered wi
A Little Bush Maid is the first novel of the Billabong series, which spans 15 novels published between 1910 and 1942. I was first introduced to them by a friend of mine (the same friend responsible for introducing me to the Obernewtyn Chronicles) when I was about 10 or 11 and when we moved to a new
I read this book when I was a child. The racism in the text takes my breath away. It is good to see it there because it reminds me of how far we've come in thirty to forty years. We still have a way to go!