This is another of the ongoing series of Paddy Platypus adventures. This time Paddy solves a great problem for a dear friend of his, Billy Badger. Billy had lost his old rotted tree trunk of a home to termites. Paddy father, old DB suggested that he take over a hidden cave which was empty. It was suggested by another of Paddy's friends, Beverly Bandicoot, that the cave was haunted. Billy didn't care; he moved in. His first night was a disaster, screams and yells and stuff. Paddy stayed with him the second night to make sure he wasn't dreaming--he wasn't--more screams and stuff. Both Billy and Paddy got brave and searched for the racket in the cave. They found it. It was just a parrot who was guarding the treasure of long John Silver. But they found out that there was no treasure in the chest. It was Zasu the parrot who was guarding and making all the scary noises. Zasu, furious with Lon John for taking the treasure he was guarding, decided to fly off into the forest and leave the cave for Billy. Paddy went for a long swim after his ordeal.

This is another of the ongoing series of Paddy Platypus adventures. This time Paddy solves a great problem for a dear friend of his, Billy Badger. Billy had lost his old rotted tree trunk of a home to termites. Paddy father, old DB suggested that he take over a hidden cave which was empty. It was suggested by another of Paddys friends, Beverly Bandicoot, that the cave was haunted. Billy didnt care; he moved in. His first night was a disaster, screams and yells and stuff. Paddy stayed with him the second night to make sure he wasnt dreaminghe wasntmore screams and stuff. Both Billy and Paddy got brave and searched for the racket in the cave. They found it. It was just a parrot who was guarding the treasure of long John Silver. But they found out that there was no treasure in the chest. It was Zasu the parrot who was guarding and making all the scary noises. Zasu ,furious with Lon John for taking the treasure he was guarding, decided to fly off into the forest and leave the cave for Billy. Paddy went for a long swim after his ordeal.

Two of Graham Seal's bestselling collections of stories from around Australia, now in one volume. 'Aussies know how to spin a good yarn, and Graham Seal knows how to tell them.' - Weekly Times Graham Seal is one of Australia's master storytellers. This bumper collection of yarns from the bush gathers some of our best stories since colonial times, retold in Graham's warm style. It takes a certain character to make a living in the Australian bush. In the most difficult situations, laughter often comes to the rescue. Here are pioneers and battlers, convicts and settler's children, and a land that tests them with fire, flood and drought, in stories resonant with Australia's distinctive wry humour. Originally published as two bestselling collections: Great Australian Stories and Larrikins, Bush Tales and Other Great Australian Stories. 'Graham Seal has the knack of the storyteller.' - Warren Fahey AM

Since the early 20th century, animated Christmas cartoons have brightened the holiday season around the world--first in theaters, then on television. From devotional portrayals of the Nativity to Santa battling villains and monsters, this encyclopedia catalogs more than 1,800 international Christmas-themed cartoons and others with year-end themes of Hanukkah, Kwanzaa and the New Year. Explore beloved television specials such as A Charlie Brown Christmas, theatrical shorts such as Santa's Workshop, holiday episodes from animated television series like American Dad! and The Simpsons, feature films like The Nutcracker Prince and obscure productions such as The Insects' Christmas, along with numerous adaptations and parodies of such classics as A Christmas Carol and Twas the Night before Christmas.

This book purports to be a manuscript dictated by a strange being named I-Am-The-Man to a man named Llewyllyn Drury. Drury's adventure culminates in a trek through a cave in Kentucky into the core of the earth. It blends passages on the nature of physical phenomena, such as gravity and volcanoes, with spiritualist speculation and adventure-story elements (like traversing a landscape of giant mushrooms).