Children+in+the+twentieth+century

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Port Melbourne : Little Mammoth, 1990, c1989. The setting is around 1905. Papa is reminiscing about his childhood at that time in rural Victoria. The words and coloured illustrations in this picture book describe life in a country town, where children and adults made their own amusement, played practical jokes on one another and had a firmly-developed sense of community. Although now out of print, many school libraries will still have a copy of this book. || ||
 * Papa and the olden days / illustrated by Rachel Tonkin ; text by by Ian Edwards

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