BUSH BOYS BOOK SYNOPSES:

There is a lot of camping fun and excitement with a nasty group of older boys...

Peter and John learn lots of bushcraft - and so does the reader.

300 pages in 37 short chapters

Greg and Bernie with their other cousins, Pete and John, help make Cuthbert into a real bush boy... The 'bush treatment' at Ducky Pool in Koala Creek works wonders - it always does.

Pete and John's younger sisters Jenny and Jude arrive too, and make a trio with Kate, Bernie's young sister.

The five boys have wild adventures camping - and capturing kidnappers. The girls are too young for camping but have their own adventures and play a vital part in the final police round-up.

256 pages in 31 short chapters.

Kate, her little sister Tess, Jenny and Jude, declare they are 'bush girls' - and bush rangers i.e. bushwalkers. Their bush-ranging centres on picnics at Mermaids' Pool and sharing in the detective work of the boys.

Rival gangs of boys and girls from the co-ed Grammar School, egged on by teachers, are also after the gold and add zest to the search.

This perhaps the first Australian children's adventure set in a homeschooling context, plus a detective story, treasure hunt and much bushy excitement.

396 pages in 39 chapters

You'll know the wild and lyric beauty of the bush rugged ridges, tall trees and scratchy scrub, rocks and rapids, wind and water, light on leaves, cliffs and waterfalls, inviting pools, awe-inspiring distances, and the wonder of bird calls amid uncivilized silence.

Bush Boys on the Move has 71 pages of Appendices on do-it-yourself camping with vital DO'S and DON'TS for planning your own bush adventure. Bush Boys on the Move is an ideal book for all adventurous boys and girls.

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Revised 28 December 2005