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A commercial publication issued by the local Sunbury community, featuring stories of people and events in Sunbury as well as advertising local businesses. It has been printed on glossy paper with a colourful cover with 8 small photos and the title written in different colours on the front and the rest of the cover contains advertisements. The inside pagesw are in black and white.

non-fiction

A local community magazine.

community magazines, sunbury times

A paperback book of 58 pages with text and black and white photographs stapled together with a cardboard cover and a coloured reproduction of a painting by George Rowe of an early race meeting in Sunbury.

non-fiction

A short local history covering 140 years of European Settlement in Sunbury from 1836 to 1972. The booklet was produced by Dr. John Patterson with help from local Sunbury people.

local history, sunbury, dr. john patterson

A 27 page booklet outlining policies adopted by the Shire of Gisbourne for rebuilding the local community after the 1983 bush fires. The cream pages have sepia photographs throughout the booklet of a variety of buildings and sites throughout the area that were affected by the fires.

non-fiction

A booklet outlining the policy guidelines adopted by Shire of Gisborne Council to rebuild the community after the 1983 bushfires.

mt. macedon, macedon ranges, ash wednesday fires, bush fires

A 26 page booklet printed on cream paper with black and white drawings of places of interest throughout and a reproduction of a coloured mural on p 2. There are 4 drives recommended to places of interest in the district.

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The booklet features 4 self drives to points of historic interest throughout the Sunbury region.

sunbury & district heritage association inc., self drive booklet, heritage, sunbury

A 26 page booklet with cream cover and pages featuring 4 self drives that are recommended in the Sunbury district. There are illustrations and text throughout the booklet

non-fiction

A paperback booklet featuring 4 drives explaining historic and natural sites in the Sunbury area.

sunbury, self drive booklet, heritage, +

A bound school reader with a soft dark green cloth cover with lettering and diagrams in black and white. Both front and back covers are decorated with lines and circles of children holding readers. Inside there are 248 pages containing stories, poems and illustrations.

fiction

A school reader for Grade 4 children.

school readers, gather round, grade 4, education department of victoria, a.c. brooks, government printer

An orange clothbound book with blue lettering on then front cover and spine. The book has are 197 pages of text.

non-fiction

A reference book outlining the different methods used to teach arithmetic to primary school students.

arithmetic method, primary schools, teachers

A small bound photo album with 12 double sided cardboard pages for displaying photographs.

non-fiction

photo album

A108 paged grammar text book with the blue cardboard cover and pages stapled together with the details printed in navy blue on the cover. Details of other books produced by the same company are listed on the back cover.

non-fiction

An English grammar and composition textbook for Grade V students.

english grammar, composition, text books

A 480 paged bound text book with a grey cloth cover and navy blue printing on the cover and spine.

non-fiction

A physical education course of study for primary and secondary school teachers

physical education, reference books, schools, teachers

A soft cover school textbook covering the Grade 3 Arithmetic course for primary schools. The orange cardboard cover is bound on the spine with two staples and the printing on the inside and outside cover is black.

non-fiction

The book has been written to cover all aspects of the teaching of arithmetic in the course of study for Victorian Schools.

arithmetic, grade 3, victorian schools

A slim cloth bound grammar textbook with an orange cover with the title printed in black on the front and along the spine..

non-fiction

A series of number games designed for teaching arithmetic to young children.

mathematics, number games, jane spencer

A paperback book with 96 pages stapled together along the spine .It has a blue cardboard cover with text and illustration in navy blue. The illustration features three children on the ground looking at an open book in the countryside.with a patterned bprder surrounding it. The back cover features a list of other graded publications from Whitcombe & Tombs Publishers.

A revised grammar text book for grade 4 students covering exercises in basic English grammar.

grammar, whitcombe ant tombs, text books

A bound book with a cloth cover decorated on the front, spine and back covers with a drawing in purple and grey of two girls and a boy carrying cases or satchels and walking to school. The title 'Third Book Among Friends' is in grey on a purple background and the publisher's name is written across the bottom of the front cover in the same colour combination. There are 247 pages of print and illustrations.

non-fiction

A school reader used in Grade 3 throughout Victorian schools from 1954 until the late 1970s

victorian education department, school readers, among friends, grade 3

A book with 104 pages and a cardboard cover, bound with two staples along the spine. The back and front covers feature a blue and white silhouette drawing of three children at the beach with seagulls flying overhead and the title ' Holidays' in red.

non-fiction

victorian education department, school readers, pllaymates.

A school reader with a cardboard cover bound on the spine with two staples. The front cover has a silhouette picture in purple, green and cream of a boy with a dog and a little girl pushing a pram. There are 72 pages with illustrations and text throughout.

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The reader was the second in the series commenced in 1951 and was the official reading text for Grade 1 in all Victorian schools. This series of texts replaced an earlier set of Victorian Readers that were used in schools from 1924. The were all produced and published by the Victorian Education Department and were gradually phased out in the 1980s when different methods of teaching reading were introduced.

victorian education department, school readers, playmates

A twenty four paged book with an orange cardboard cover and stapled together with the title 'John and Betty' printed in dark green lettering and a silhouette picture of a boy and girl with a dog in dark green and red.

non-fiction

The school reader was published by the Victorian Education Department and was the official reader for the Preparatory grades throughout Victorian school.

school readers, victorian education department, john and betty

A cream and green cardboard covered mathematics textbook - metric edition compiled by E.G. Heffernan. It has been designed for primary school students from grades 3 to 6.

non-fiction

The text was written as a supplement to 'Primary Mathematics' and is designed to give students a greater understanding of mathematics from the basic to the complex.