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Red Sand Blue Sky – Girl’s First (American publication)

Red Sand, Blue Sky | The Feminist Press at the City University of New York, USA Paperback Edition – in print – available from publisher – see link below ISBN: 978-1-55861-278-5 Publication Date: 02-01-2002 Page Count: 144 At the center of Australia is a vast red desert known as the Outback. For twelve-year-old Amy from…

The Night Santa got Stuck in the Chimney

The Night Santa got Stuck in the Chimney  2011.   A children’s story set on a cattle station in the Northern Territory that tells of how 3 children help Santa out on Christmas night.  The story was narrated over music by Leif Sundstrup. Performed at Parap Primary by the DSO in December 2011, narrated by…

Town Hall Ruins

Town Hall Ruins  2007 (unpublished).  A poem written by Cathy Applegate at the request of the Sydney Guitar Trio. It was read over music by Venezualan composer Elvis Suarez – Delta. Performed as part of the Darwin International Guitar Festival 2007 at the Town Hall Ruins.  Read by Rory O’Donoghue (of Aunty Jack fame). This…

Pete and the Croc – alternative text for Peter and the Wolf

Pete and the Croc 2006 – text (unpublished).   A new ‘Territory’ story to accompany the classic Peter and the Wolf at the request of Martin Jarvis, the then artistic director of the Darwin Symphony Orchestra. This was premiered by the DSO in August 2006 at the Territory Wildlife Park, narrated by Ted Egan who…

The Wetland’s Suite

The Wetlands Suite (An illustrated book of poetry) NTUniprint, 1997. This booklet was handed out as a program to accompany the premiere of the orchestral work by the same name. The poems were read before each of the 7 movements that describe animals found in the Top End’s wetlands (Australia’s tropical north). Original poems by…

Rain Dance

Rain dance / written by Cathy Applegate ; illustrated by Dee Huxley. Hunters Hill, NSW : Margaret Hamilton Books, 2000 ©2000 Unfortunately this book is now out of print. I have contacted Scholastic Australia, requesting that they re-print the work as there is still demand. If you would like to help, please get in touch…

Red Sand, Blue Sky – Australian (original) edition

Red sand, Blue sky / Cathy Applegate – Australian publisher is now Scholastic Australia  ( re-printed several times) Author Applegate, Cathy   Description Sydney : Margaret Hamilton Books, 1995 143 p. ; 20 cm. ISBN 0947241744 (paperback) Notes Cover illustration by Vilma Cencic. Children. Other authors/contributors Cencic, Vilma At the center of Australia is a…

Where’s Itchy?

Where’s Itchy? (A children’s novel) Margaret Hamilton Books, Scholastic, Illustrated Dee Huxley Sydney, 1992 Out of print Second hand copies available on line