Resources for the
Australian and New Zealand
Homeschool
Downunder Literature
These books and more are used in the Downunder Copy Work Series
My Country by Dorothea Mackellar
Our Sunburnt Country by A. Baillie
A Complete Account of the Settlement at Port Jackson by Watkin Tench
King’s Narrative of the Burke and Wills Expedition
Dot and the Kangaroo by E Pedley
The First Discovery of Australia and New Guinea by G Collingidge
The Wonderland of Nature by Nuri Mass
We of the Never Never by Mrs Aeneas Gunn
Bushland Stories : The leaf that longed to be red by Amy Mack
Hairy Maclary from Donaldsons Dairy
Old Man Platypus by Banjo Patterson
Australian Legendary Tales as told to the Piccaninnies by Katherine Langloh Parker
The Bushland Stories: The Wave by Amy Mack
Spotty the Bower Bird by E.S.Sorenson
The Roaring Days by Henry Lawson
Following The Equator by Mark Twain
A Mothers Offering to Her Children by Charlotte Barton
When McDougal Topped the Score by Thomas Spencer
South: the story of Shackleton's 1914-1917 expedition by E S Shackleton
The Eureka Stockade by R Carboni
Seven Little Australians by E Turner
Captain Cook’s Journal During the First Voyage Round the World by James Cook
The Wild Colonial Boy – Anonymous
Bligh’s Narrative of the Mutiny on Board HM.Ship Bounty by William Bligh