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    The Kookaburra Who Couldn't Laugh: And Other Stories
    The Kookaburra Who Couldn't Laugh: And Other Stories
    The Kookaburra Who Couldn't Laugh: And Other Stories
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    The Kookaburra Who Couldn't Laugh: And Other Stories

    By Carolyn McMurray

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    The idea of writing a story about
    a Kookaburra who couldnt laugh was taken from a real life
    incident in Sydney.
    LanguageEnglish
    PublisherXlibris AU
    Release dateApr 7, 2014
    ISBN9781493137251
    The Kookaburra Who Couldn't Laugh: And Other Stories

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      The Kookaburra Who Couldn't Laugh - Carolyn McMurray

      Copyright © 2014 by Carolyn McMurray. 520145

      Illustrations by Kenny Estrella

      ISBN: Softcover   978-1-4990-0056-6

      ISBN: EBook         978-1-4931-3725-1

      All rights reserved. No part of this book may be reproduced or transmitted in any form or by any means, electronic or mechanical, including photocopying, recording, or by any information storage and retrieval system, without permission in writing from the copyright owner.

      This is a work of fiction. Names, characters, places and incidents either are the product of the author’s imagination or are used fictitiously, and any resemblance to any actual persons, living or dead, events, or locales is entirely coincidental.

      Rev. date: 10/21/2014

      Xlibris

      1-800-455-039

      www.xlibris.com.au

      DEDICATED TO

      MY CHILDREN,

      SKYE & JUSTIN.

      Contents

      The Kookaburra Who Couldn’t Laugh

      The Koala Who Hated Gum Leaves

      The Kangaroo Who Preferred To Skip

      The Wombat Who Didn’t Like Digging

      The Emu Who Wanted To Fly

      The Echidna Who Didn’t Like Ants

      THE KOOKABURRA WHO COULDN’T LAUGH

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      THE KOOKABURRA WHO COULDN’T LAUGH

      Have you ever heard of a kookaburra who couldn’t laugh?

      It’s inconceivable – they’re called Laughing Jackasses – it’s part of what a kookaburra is. My parents and brothers and sisters were all great laughers and we would often sit on a branch of a very high gum tree and make the bush ring with the sound of our laughter. Us all, that is, except for me. I would open my beak wide and what would come out? A cacophony of croaks. No hooohooohooo haaahaaahaaas for me. It was abysmal – it was embarrassing – what was I to do?

      I don’t know why I wasn’t able to laugh. I had a normal loving upbringing with two parents who looked after us all dotingly in the nest. There was no shortage of food for

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