The Muddle-Headed Wombat by Ruth Park
The Muddle-Headed Wombat by Ruth Park
The Muddle-Headed Wombat by Ruth Park
The Muddle-Headed Wombat by Ruth Park

The Muddle-Headed Wombat by Ruth Park

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Illustrated by Noela Young

Wombat and his inseparable friends - the motherly and practical Mouse, and Tabby Cat whose pride, along with his tabby coat, is always being ruffled - began their careers in a daily children's serial on ABC radio. Since then their delightful adventures in the popular series of Muddleheaded Wombat books have entertained thousands of children in many parts of the world. This paperback edition brings together four stories - The Muddleheaded Wombat, The Muddleheaded Wombat at School, The Muddleheaded Wombat on Holiday and The Muddleheaded Wombat in the Treetops all presented with Noela Young's lively illustrations.

To both parents and children, Wombat is an irresistible character and he and his mates will endure to bring pleasure to many generations more.

Published: Sydney: Cornstalk [imprint of HarperCollins Publishers], 1995
Condition: Very good condition 
Format: Hardcover 
Age: 8+

Born in New Zealand, Ruth Park came to Australia in 1942 to continue her career as a journalist. She married the writer D'Arcy Niland and travelled with him through the north-west of New South Wales before settling in Sydney where she became a full-time writer.

She has written over fifty books, and her many awards include the prestigious Miles Franklin Award for Swords and Crowns and Rings; the Australian Children's Book of the Year Award and the Boston Globe-Horn Book Award (USA) for Playing Beatie Bow and The Age Book of the Year Award for A Fence Around the Cuckoo. Her stories about The Muddleheaded Wombat were a result of the ABC radio serial.

She was made a Member of the Order of Australia in 1987 and in 1994 was awarded an Honorary Doctor of Letters from the University of New South Wales. Ruth Park passed away in December 2010.

Noela Young was born in Sydney. She attended Sydney High School and won a scholarship to the National Art School, at the time called East Sydney Technical College. She graduated with a Diploma in Illustration and the College Medal for Highest Honours.

Young began illustrating books in the early 1950s and became widely admired for her ability to vividly present the world of children and animals. Writers with whom she has collaborated include Duncan Hall, Hesba Brinsmead, Irene Gough, Christobel Mattingley, Ruth Park, Patricia Wrightson, Emily Rodda, Robin Klein and Margaret Wild. Young has used her own text for several books, including Flip the Flying Possum (1963) that won her first commendation in the Children's Book Council Book of the Year Awards. Since then she has won numerous children's book awards but is best known for her illustrations to Ruth Park's Muddle-Headed Wombat series of stories.

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