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Type(s) de contenu et mode(s) de consultation : Texte noté. Image fixe : sans médiation
Auteur(s) : Jolly, Jane (1957-....)
Titre(s) : Tea and sugar Christmas [Texte imprimé] / Jane Jolly and Robert Ingpen
Publication : Canberra : NLA publishing, 2015
Description matérielle : 1 vol. (non paginé [24] p.) : ill. en coul. ; 28 cm
Note(s) : For pre-school age.
Annotation ; The Tea and Sugar train only came once a week on a Thursday. But the
special Christmas train only came once a year. Today was Sunday. Four more days without
sugar. Four more days until the Christmas train. Please, please be on time. Please
dont be late. Join Kathleen in the outback as she eagerly awaits the Christmas Tea
and Sugar train. Will she meet Father Christmas? Will she receive a Christmas gift
from him?A delightful, heart-warming story from the National Library of Australia
that will intrigue, captivate and introduce readers to a slice of the past. Wonderful
sensitive illustrations, including a beautiful double fold-out image showing the shops
inside all the carriages. For 81 years, from 1915 to 1996, the Tea and Sugar Train
travelled from Port Augusta to Kalgoorlie once a week. It serviced the settlements
along the Nullarbor Plain, a 1050-long rail link. It was a lifeline. There were no
shops or services in these settlements. The train carried everything they neededa
household goods, groceries, fruit and vegetables, a butchers van, banking facilities
and at one time even a theatrette car for showing films. The biggest excitement for
the children was the first Thursday of December every year, when Father Christmas
travelled the line. He distributed gifts to all the children on the way, including
those of railway workers, those in isolated communities, and station kids
Autre(s) auteur(s) : Ingpen, Robert (1936-....). Illustrateur
Identifiants, prix et caractéristiques : ISBN 978-0-642-27863-0 (rel.)
Identifiant de la notice : ark:/12148/cb45056205x
Notice n° :
FRBNF45056205
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