I Can Jump Puddles: Australian Children's Classics: Australian Children's Classics
By Alan Marshall
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It amazed me that they would imagine I would never walk again. I knew what I was going to do. I was going to break in wild horses and yell 'Ho! Ho!' and wave my hat in the air, and
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I Can Jump Puddles: Australian Children's Classics: Australian Children's Classics
9781742535845
Penguin eBooks
20 November 2012
EPUB
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204
2.02 MB
13+ years (13-99)
EN
Children/juvenile
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Australian
Biography & Autobiography
Biography & Autobiography: General
Children's and Educational
Classic Fiction (Pub. < 1900)
Ebook Challenge Level: 7-9
Fiction (Child / Teen)
Horse & Pony Stories
NSW Ebook Premier's Reading Challenge 2019
Premier's Reading Challenge NSW Level: 7-9
Premier's Reading Challenge QLD eBooks
Premier's Reading Challenge QLD Level: 7-9
Premier's Reading Challenge SA Level: 6-9
Premier's Reading Challenge VIC Level: 7-8
School Stories
True Stories Of Endurance & Survival
All Adult Titles
All Ebooks
Australian
Biography & Autobiography
Biography & Autobiography: General
Children's and Educational
Classic Fiction (Pub. < 1900)
Ebook Challenge Level: 7-9
Fiction (Child / Teen)
Horse & Pony Stories
NSW Ebook Premier's Reading Challenge 2019
Premier's Reading Challenge NSW Level: 7-9
Premier's Reading Challenge QLD eBooks
Premier's Reading Challenge QLD Level: 7-9
Premier's Reading Challenge SA Level: 6-9
Premier's Reading Challenge VIC Level: 7-8
School Stories
True Stories Of Endurance & Survival
Author Biography
Alan Marshall was born in Noorat, Victoria in 1902 and educated in Terang. He lived in Melbourne for some time, and then travelled extensively around Australia. He has recounted the story of his life and travels in a three-part autobiography. I Can Jump Puddles, the first book of the trilogy, is the story of his childhood. It is one of Australia's best loved books, and is known around the world in thirty languages. It was made into an award-winning film by Czechoslovakian director Karel Kachyna in 1970. This is the Grass is the second book of Alan Marshall's autobiography; the third is In Mine Own Heart.