Author: Cawthorne, W. A.; McRae, Rodney (illustrator).
Title: Who Killed Cockatoo?
Description: Sydney, Hunters Hill Margaret Hamilton, 1988. Deluxe ed. Hardback large quarto, dustjacket, very good plus condition (in very good plus dustjacket), gilt edges, full-colour glossy drawings (many full-page), autograph (written names illustrator & publisher label front endpaper). In black cloth slipcase, colour vignette front cover. 32 pp. The traditional English children's rhyme 'Who Killed Cock Robin?' was first adapted for Australian children over 100 years ago by William Alexander Cawthorne, in about 1870 in Adelaide. This book is thought to be one of the earliest children's picture books written, printed and published in Australia. The illustrations in this modern edition strive to amalgamate the many images of Australia today. Aboriginal and primitive motifs have been painted in contemporary colours to reflect the Australian landscape, sea, sun and sky. For the sake of clarity a few minor changes have been made to the poetic text, but, basically, it remains the same as when it was first written. (This deluxe edition of the inaugural publication of Margaret Hamilton Books, in slipcase, is limited to 200 autographed copies of which this is no. 14.) ISBN: 0947241043

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