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    Joey in the Outback
    Joey in the Outback
    Joey in the Outback
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    Joey in the Outback

    By Richard F. Challis

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    A collection of 5 short stories for children with Joey, a little boy living in outback Australia. The 5 stories:
    "Joey’s New Job",
    "Joey and the Boomerang Tree",
    "Joey and the Didgeridon’t",
    "The Dog That Lived On Paper" and
    "Joey and Tyrannosaurus Rex"
    total 4700 words.
    There is also a brief explanation of a few of the many Australia references in the stories.
    Illustrated with colour pictures.

    LanguageEnglish
    PublisherSteve Challis
    Release dateJan 28, 2012
    ISBN9781466132832
    Joey in the Outback
    Author

    Richard F. Challis

    Richard Frederick Challis was born on April the 7th 1924 in Stafordshire, England, the 5th child of 10. His father was a master painter, and his efforts to feed his large family during the great depression of the 1930's is the basis of the novel "The Old Firm".Richard was apprenticed at 15 and gradually rose to become the area sales manager for his company for the North of England. This is told in Richard's business autobiography "Time and Chance"Richard migrated to Australia in 1964 and was his company's regional Manager for the Far East and Oceania. His international travels are related in the novel "When Angels Travel".After leaving his company, Richard became a lecturer at the Elton Mayo School of Management (Now part of the University of South Australia) specialising in international marketing.

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      Joey in the Outback - Richard F. Challis

      Joey in the Outback

      Richard F. Challis

      Copyright Richard F. Challis 1980

      Published by Steve Challis

      Published at Smashwords

      This book is licensed for your personal enjoyment only and may not be resold or given away to other people.

      If you enjoyed this book, please recommend it to other people so they can purchase their own copy, or you can purchase another copy for them as a gift.

      Thank you for respecting the author’s work.

      Steve Challis

      Index

      Joey’s New Job

      Joey and the Boomerang Tree

      Joey and the Didgeridon’t

      The Dog That Lived On Paper

      Joey and Tyrannosaurus Rex

      Explanations

      Other Books by Richard F. Challis

      Richard F. Challis wrote a wide variety of books and short stories.

      His longer works, The Old Firm, Time and Chance and When Angels Travel are more suitable for older readers, but many of his short stories are excellent for children.

      The illustrated Joey stories in this book are ideal for children to read, or for reading to children too young to read the stories themselves. As well as being excellent children’s stories there are many references to Australian themes incorporated in the stories. I will include a brief description of a few of these references at the end of this book.

      Interludes is more suitable for slightly older children. The six stories are autobiographical, written describing the author’s summer holidays in Suffolk from the time he was ten until the Second World War broke out when he was fifteen.

      Mr. Challis has written many other children’s stories including the Grandpa Peppercorn series. These will be published in the near future.

      Luna, our Cat has written an autobiography suitable for children:

      Luna the Autobiography of a Super Cat by Luna Challis

      I am a Cat who has had a lot of experiences in my 4 years. In my Autobiography with 21 pictures and 5000 words you can meet my friends like Michael, the

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