![]() He is currently working on retrieval and teaching of Wathaurong language of south western Victoria. Bruce has been published by Penguin, McPhee Gribble, Transworld, Magabala Books, Bruce Sims Books, Aboriginal Studies Press and Seaglass.īruce has produced a history text, Wathaurong: The people who said no, a language learning CD-ROM, film, and teachers' book and a Wathaurong dictionary for the Wathaurong Aboriginal Co-op, Geelong, Victoria. He published and edited Australian Short Stories quarterly magazine for 16 years, and was joint winner (with David Foster) of Australian Literature Award (1999) and winner of the Radio National Short Story Competition (1998).īruce’s books include the short story collections Night Animals (1986) and Nightjar (2000) the novels Fox (1988), Ruby Eyed Coucal (1996), Ribcage (1999), Shark (1999), Earth (2001), and Ocean (2002) historical works Cape Otway : Coast of secrets (1997) and Convincing Ground (2007) and the childrens’ book Foxies in a Firehose (2006). ![]() ![]() Born in Richmond, Victoria, in 1947 Bruce is a school teacher, deck hand, barman, farmer, Director of Commonwealth Australian Studies project, editor, publisher, and works in Indigenous language retrieval. ![]()
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![]() ![]() Peter returns home only to find that his mother has had another child while he was gone and he finally chooses to stay in the gardens. There he meets fantastical characters and embarks on learning adventures. In Peter Pan in Kensington Gardens, the seven-day old Peter leaves his parents’ house and escapes to Kensington Gardens. His infant character from the earlier novel obtained enough popularity to warrant the character’s own children’s book titled Peter Pan in Kensington Gardens. Barrie did not publish the play until 1929. In 1904, Barrie wrote a play version of Peter Pan featuring a slightly different version of the young boy going on adventures and battling the infamous Captain Hook. Barrie was a Scottish born writer who later moved to London where in 1902 he wrote The Little White Bird featuring his character Peter Pan. The book has the original illustrations by Arthur Rackham and has been stunningly rebound in full leather. 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