Spotty The Bower Bird And Other Stories

This is a collection of stories inspired by Edward Sorenson's experience in the bush. The book follows the lives and habits of nine of Australia's incredible native animals. The book contains:Spotty, the BowerBird - Quiyan, the Possum - Jack, the Kookaburra - Warrigal, the Dingo - Bluey, the Wren - Kojurrie, the Goanna - Karaway, the Cockatoo - Booraby, the Koala - Brolga and Jabiru.

Few Australian authors, not even Henry Lawson or "Steele Rudd" had a more varied experience of bush-life than Edward Sorenson. His time in the bush inspired these stories telling about the lives and habits of nine of our incredible native animals. Including tales about the Bower-bird, Possum, Kookaburra, Dingo, Wren, Goanna, Cockatoo, Koala and Brolga the Sydney Morning Herald said of this collection "Spotty the Bower Bird is a delightful book for youngsters that should be on every Australian child's bookshelf."

'On the Wallaby, The Diary of a Queensland Swagman' is an adventure novel written in first-person perspective by Edward Sorenson. This is a plain bush yarn, relating in a humorous vein the experiences and adventures of a young man, who, finding himself stranded in Brisbane, where he knew no one, shouldered his swag and struck out into the bush to look for a job. His track from Breakfast Creek to beyond the Maranoa River, may be traced on the map, for he deals only with real places—and real people—and what he goes through is what the majority of swag men go through. Always an optimist, he sees the humor of the situations, and his narrative is embellished with details of bushcraft, and with the yarns and the fun of campfire and track.

This is a chronicle of encounters with a lot of bird books, in fact a lifetime of such encounters. The world of bird books is vast and varied, defying coherent descriptions. The author’s qualification for making this attempt to describe it is that he owns several hundred of them, gathered over more than 70 years. To help make sense of this obsession, the description of the books is linked to life in which traditional birdwatching (and book hunting) went on, in different places, and in between other things.

"Karaway the Cockatoo and Other Nature Stories" is a collection of four animal stories by the Australian writer and poet Edward Sorenson. He was famous for stories featuring Australian wildlife. In this collection, one finds some of his best stories: "Karaway, the Cockatoo," "Kojurrie, the Goanna," "Bluey, the Wren," and "Booraby, the Koala."