Dot and the Kangaroo/Introduction



DOT and the KANGAROO

By ETHEL C. PEDLEY

WITH 19 FULL-PAGE ILLUSTRATIONS By FRANK P. MAHONY

THE BOOKMAN (London):—"Miss Pedley has written a story for Australian children, but children of all countries will be the better for reading it.... In the end a double joy is waiting for the reader, for Dot finds again her home and her loving mother, and the faithful kangaroo finds its lost baby. Quite the right ending for Christmas-tide."

SYDNEY MORNING HERALD:—"'Dot and the Kangaroo' is without doubt one of the most charming books that could be put into the hands of a child. It is admirably illustrated by Frank P. Mahony, who seems to have entered thoroughly into the animal world of Australia. The story is altogether Australian.... It is told so simply, and yet so artistically, that even the 'grown-ups' amongst us must enjoy it."

DAILY MAIL (Brisbane):—"A more fascinating study for Australian children is hardly conceivable, and it endows the numerous bush animals with human speech, and reproduces a variety of amusing conversations between them and Dot, the little heroine of the book.... Adults may read it with pleasure."

FREEMAN'S JOURNAL (Sydney):—"Miss Pedley brings much of graceful fancy and happy descriptive faculty to her narrative of 'Dot and the Kangaroo.'... The volume furnishes excellent reading for young folk."



to the

children of Australia

in the hope of enlisting their sympathies

for the many

beautiful, amiable, and frolicsome creatures

of their fair land,

is being surely accomplished

List of illustrations

 * (front cover)
 * The Playtypus sings of the antediluvian days
 * The Kangaroo finds Dot
 * The fight between the Kookoburra and the Snake
 * Dot and the Kangaroo on their way to the Platypus
 * The prehistoric creatures of the song
 * Dot dances with the native companions
 * Dot, the Native Bear, and the Opposum
 * The corroboree
 * A leap for life
 * The Bittern helps Dot
 * The bower birds
 * The Emus hunting the sheep
 * The Court of animals
 * The Cockatoo Judge
 * The Pelican opens the case
 * The Kangaroo carries Dot out of Court
 * Dot's father about to shoot the Kangaroo
 * Dot waving adieu to the Kangaroo
 * By the lake (evening)
 * (back cover)