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Muddle-Headed Wombat #3
The Muddle-headed Wombat in the Treetops
「ウォンバットもマウスも大好きだけど、ぼくのようなか弱いねこには一人きりになれる場所が必要なんだ」-----そう考えたタビーは木の上に自分だけの家をつくることを思いつきます。ウォンバットとマウスは、なんとか『木の上の家』に招待してもらえるようにいろいろな事をしてタビーに喜んでもらおうとしますが、反対にタビーをおこらせてしまいます。このまま、タビーとウォンバットたちは仲直りができないのでしょうか…？
ウォンバットみたいな友達がいたらいつもハチャメチャなこと間違いなし。だけど、どこか憎めなくて愛嬌のあるウォンバットはマウスとタビーの大切な友達なのです。
ゆかいなウォンバットシリーズ第4作！
ウォンバットみたいな友達がいたらいつもハチャメチャなこと間違いなし。だけど、どこか憎めなくて愛嬌のあるウォンバットはマウスとタビーの大切な友達なのです。
ゆかいなウォンバットシリーズ第4作！
68 pages, Hardcover
Published January 1, 1976
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Ruth Park
85 books116 followersRuth Park was a New Zealand-born author, who spent most of her life in Australia. She was born in Auckland, and her family later moved to Te Kuiti further south in the North Island of New Zealand, where they lived in isolated areas.
During the Great Depression her working class father worked on bush roads, as a driver, on relief work, as a sawmill hand, and finally shifted back to Auckland as council worker living in a state house. After Catholic primary school Ruth won a partial scholarship to secondary school, but this was broken by periods of being unable to afford to attend. For a time she stayed with relatives on a Coromandel farming estate where she was treated like a serf by the wealthy landowner until she told the rich woman what she really thought of her.
Ruth claimed that she was involved in the Queen Street riots with her father. Later she worked at the Auckland Star before shifting to Australia in 1942. There she married the Australian writer D'Arcy Niland.
Her first novel was The Harp in the South (1948) - a story of Irish slum life in Sydney, which was translated into 10 languages. (Some critics called it a cruel fantasy because as far as they were concerned there were no slums in Sydney.) But Ruth and D'Arcy did live in Sydney slums at Surry Hills. She followed that up with Poor Man's Orange (1949). She also wrote Missus (1985) and other novels, as well as a long-running Australian children's radio show and scripts for film and TV. She created The Muddle-Headed Wombat series of children's books. Her autobiographies are A Fence Around the Cuckoo (1992) and Fishing in the Styx (1993). She also wrote a novel based in New Zealand, One-a-pecker, Two-a-pecker (1957), about gold mining in Otago (later renamed The Frost and The Fire).
Park received awards in Australia and internationally.
Winner of the Dromkeen Medal.
During the Great Depression her working class father worked on bush roads, as a driver, on relief work, as a sawmill hand, and finally shifted back to Auckland as council worker living in a state house. After Catholic primary school Ruth won a partial scholarship to secondary school, but this was broken by periods of being unable to afford to attend. For a time she stayed with relatives on a Coromandel farming estate where she was treated like a serf by the wealthy landowner until she told the rich woman what she really thought of her.
Ruth claimed that she was involved in the Queen Street riots with her father. Later she worked at the Auckland Star before shifting to Australia in 1942. There she married the Australian writer D'Arcy Niland.
Her first novel was The Harp in the South (1948) - a story of Irish slum life in Sydney, which was translated into 10 languages. (Some critics called it a cruel fantasy because as far as they were concerned there were no slums in Sydney.) But Ruth and D'Arcy did live in Sydney slums at Surry Hills. She followed that up with Poor Man's Orange (1949). She also wrote Missus (1985) and other novels, as well as a long-running Australian children's radio show and scripts for film and TV. She created The Muddle-Headed Wombat series of children's books. Her autobiographies are A Fence Around the Cuckoo (1992) and Fishing in the Styx (1993). She also wrote a novel based in New Zealand, One-a-pecker, Two-a-pecker (1957), about gold mining in Otago (later renamed The Frost and The Fire).
Park received awards in Australia and internationally.
Winner of the Dromkeen Medal.
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December 1, 2020
Tabby Cat, second-best friend to Mouse and Wombat, decides he needs to get away from it all with a treehouse of his own.
Wombat and Mouse are thoroughly put out by his inconsiderate decision. How will they climb the tree to visit? As for the Mopoke whose tree Tab has invaded, he's most put out and looking for a chance to settle the score.
Wombat decides to lure Tab down from his house-building by making a noise like a sardine. What sound does a sardine make? Well, they are usually very quiet in their cans but Wombat is sure they ordinarily sound like crickets. And he almost persuades Tab to believe him.
From then on, the friendship is strained as Tabby realises he's being manipulated into sharing a house he wants all to himself.
From the classic series.
Wombat and Mouse are thoroughly put out by his inconsiderate decision. How will they climb the tree to visit? As for the Mopoke whose tree Tab has invaded, he's most put out and looking for a chance to settle the score.
Wombat decides to lure Tab down from his house-building by making a noise like a sardine. What sound does a sardine make? Well, they are usually very quiet in their cans but Wombat is sure they ordinarily sound like crickets. And he almost persuades Tab to believe him.
From then on, the friendship is strained as Tabby realises he's being manipulated into sharing a house he wants all to himself.
From the classic series.
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September 13, 2016Owned as part of The Muddle-Headed Wombat omnibus.
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