Well done, Salvy!

One pictures the little Mallee school room, all hot. Surely if you get this book as a prize, you get it in December.

So he was second in Grade Four. Second what? Best?

I don’t think so, RG Clements.

He’s what? Nine? About to move to Melbourne?

The book is published in 1946 by FRANK CORK, Theatre Royal Building, Hindley Street, Adelaide, and it’s printed by THE ADVERTISER PRINTING OFFICE.

Pictures by Trevor Clarke and words by Ian Mudie, a South Australian writer.

Mate of Colin Thiele and Miles Franklin.

Author of the poem ‘My Father Began as a God’.