Kirjahaku

Australian Children's Books is an essential reference for librarians, book collectors, specialist and antiquarian booksellers, scholars, and everyone with an interest in this important aspect of Australian cultural history. Together with volumes 1 and 2, this bibliography forms a body of information that will enable readers to plot the development of Australian publishing for children. They can follow the continuing careers of such authors as Mem Fox, Bob Graham, Robin Klein, Paul Jennings, Colin Thiele and Patricia Wrightson and track the remarkable diversity of Australian and overseas editions. They can trace changes in the popularity of specifically Australian themes and settings, and identify publishing trends including variations in the physical appearance of books. Globalisation, commercialism, the rise of the middle class in Asia, desktop publishing, outcomes-based school curricula and the modern obsession with 'celebrities' - all these varied cultural aspects of present-day life, and many others besides, are reflected in the type and quantity of books produced by Australian writers and publishers.

This third anthology from Kerry White includes a cheeky tribute to Clive James - 'stars are in your sights'; a 'eulogy' for a country pub; a tribute to those who faced 'Ruin undismayed'; those 'like sheep' in the ongoing US shootout; and those doing evil things in the name of a god.Kerry White lives on the Sunshine Coast in Queensland, Australia. He has previously published two anthologies, 'the poet from hell' and 'Strength, labour and sorrow', as well as 'Three of a kind', covering aspects of military aviation history.In 2007 in 'semi-retirement' he graduated with a Bachelor of Arts degree from University of Southern Queensland and this year (2016) is studying for a Masters in Professional Practice (Creative Writing) at University of the Sunshine Coast. He served in the Vietnam War with 5 Battalion, Royal Australian Regiment as a 'reinforcement' in 1966-67. He subsequently worked as a journalist and in government and corporate communications. He has two sons, five grandchildren and partner Caroline - all inspiring.

In the 1960s the Domino Theory, fear of communist expansion through Asia, is used to justify going to war in Vietnam; to boost Army numbers, Australia introduces National Service for young men selected by a ballot using marbles representing birth dates ... one of those selected was Kerry White . His story begins with his time in Vietnam, then recalling his life before call-up and on being back home after discharge ... as the war goes on, the headlines confront him every day and night ... This memoir is based on memory, reflection and imagination.

'the poet from hell' is an anthology including poems of war and other matters ... peace, love, family, religion, history, life and death... 'scareaway the demons in their souls' ... 'A land that could be kind and cruel' ... 'leaving awe behind' ...'His past was both before and after him'. The author was born in Toowoomba, a major inland city of Australia, in 1945. He worked in a bank before being called up for National Service which included a tour of duty in the Vietnam War with 5 Battalion, Royal Australian Regiment. He later became a journalist working in newspapers before moving into the broader communications field and now lives on the Sunshine Coast, just north of Brisbane, Queensland.... 'In the Land of Dreaming all things are possible'.The title: Out of the Vietnam War 1962-75 came a slogan: 'When I die I'll go to Heaven 'cause I've spent my time in Hell'. Many did go through hell there and subsequently - for others maybe it was not quite hell, more a purgatory perhaps; we who were there cast the stones at the bidding of others. This anthology is dedicated to all who served and to their families, friends and lovers - to those who ultimately found heaven and to those who have been through hell. Not all inclusions are about the Vietnam War. There are other facets of life I have written about such as the epic Aspects of Australia.