The Red Camel
By (Author) Kirsty Murray
Illustrated by Teresa Culkin-Lawrence
National Museum of Australia
National Museum of Australia
1st January 2009
Australia
Children
Fiction
A823
Paperback
64
81g
Ruby doesn't like working for the Wilsons. She wants to go back to Alice Springs to live with her mum. Will Idris, the Afghan boy who works with the camels, help her to return home Kirsty Murray has written an exciting story about life in central Australia at the turn of the twentieth century, inspired by a photograph of camels and their driver taken by Herbert Basedow in Oodnadatta in 1903.
Felicity Pulman is the author of numerous books and short stories, including the award-winning Janna Mysteries series and the Shalott trilogy. Teresa Culkin-Lawrence is the illustrator of Daisy Sunshine and The Other Side.