Courageous Kids and their Amazing Adventures
Age range 6+
Stephanie Owen Reeder’s Heritage Heroes series celebrates stories of incredible survival, persistence and resilience by young people. This book binds together the five original, beloved stories with two brand new ones:
Brave Bee and the Castaway Kids
Will the Wonderkid and the Elusive Treasure
Amazing Grace and the Sinking Ship
Lennie the Legend and the Remarkable Ride
Marvellous Miss May and the Wondrous Circus
Clever Quong Tart and the New Gold Mountain
Valiant Jane and the Disappearing Trail
Liz Duthie’s occasional illustrations give young readers a visual springboard for imagining the story, and picturing themselves as these courageous young people.
Described as ‘The Story Whisperer’ for her ability to discover and bring to life amazing true stories from Australia’s past, Dr Stephanie Owen Reeder is a Canberra-based author, illustrator, editor and reviewer. Stephanie writes and illustrates books for both children and adults, as well as reviewing children’s books.
Liz Duthie is an internationally published children’s book illustrator, visual artist, art educator and community arts based in Djaara Country, (Castlemaine, Victoria), who rejoices in using traditional media.
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