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Big Book of Footy!
4 Little Legends books in 1!
Series: AFL Little Legends
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Oz, Ellie and Sanjay Little are the Little Legends – and star footy players for the Fresca Bay Falcons! Join them on a series of hilarious and action-packed adventures that celebrate the great game of Australian Rules football. Big Book of Footy contains 4 Little Legends...
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Oz, Ellie and Sanjay Little are the Little Legends – and star footy players for the Fresca Bay Falcons! Join them on a series of hilarious and action-packed adventures that celebrate the great game of Australian Rules football.
Big Book of Footy contains 4 Little Legends stories:
- Ozzy Rules!
- Taking Sides
- Go For Goal
- The Big One!
Perfect for fans of Tiny Timmy, Real Pigeons and Weirdo, Little Legends is the only official AFL junior fiction series. It’s packed with fun and will entertain footy-mad kids for hours!
Series: AFL Little Legends
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Big Book of Footy!
Oz, Ellie and Sanjay Little are the Little Legends – and star footy players for the Fresca Bay Falcons! Join them on a series of hilarious and action-packed adventures that celebrate the great game of Australian Rules football. Big Book of Footy contains 4 Little Legends stories: Ozzy Rules! Taking Sides Go For Goal The Big One! Perfect for fans...Paperback$3499Unit price /UnavailableAvailableShips in 4-6 weeks
Book Details
INFORMATION
ISBN: 9781761214943
Publisher: Hardie Grant Children's Publishing
Format: Paperback / softback
Date Published: 03 September 2024
Country: Australia
Imprint: Hardie Grant Children's Publishing
Illustration: Black and White
Audience: Children
DIMENSIONS
Width: 133.0mm
Height: 190.0mm
Weight: 595g
Pages: 684
About the Author
Nicole Hayes is an award-winning author, podcaster and footy fanatic. She is one-sixth of the award-winning all-female Australian football podcast and radio show, The Outer Sanctum (on the ABC). Nicole has collaborated with fellow Sanctumer Alicia Sometimes on A Footy Girl’s Guide to the Stars of 2017 and co-edited From the Outer: Footy Like You’ve Never Heard It. Nicole has also written chapters for Balancing Acts: Women in Sport and Speccy-tacular AFL Stories. Her young adult novels have been shortlisted for the NSW and WA Premier’s Literary Awards and the YABBA and KOALA awards. She has also won the Children’s Peace Literature Award and has multiple CBCA Notable Books.
Adrian Beck is a part-time TV producer, part-time writer and full-time AFL fan. He writes funny, action-packed adventure stories for kids, including the Derek Dool: Supercool series, the Champion Charlies series, the Alien Zooseries, and Stuff Happens – Dale. He co-authored the best-selling series Kick it to Nick with AFL Hall of Fame inductee Shane Crawford and co-edited Total Quack Up and Total Quack Up Again with Sally Rippin. All of Adrian’s stories are fun to read – even for kids who struggle to get interested in books.
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