The Australian Twelve Days of Christmas
Author/Illustrator: Michael Salmon
Publisher: PAR Productions (Peter Anthill-Rose & Associates)
Location: Castle Hill, New South Wales, Australia
Copyright Date: 1988
Aussie representation of Christmas: the beach, summer, the ocean, gum trees instead of pine trees - these are the things which characterise an Aussie Christmas. It's Christmas down-under and Australia's iconic animals are set to party. Twelve possums playing, eleven lizards leaping ... six sharks a-surfing, and a kookaburra in a gum tree. Kookaburras, galahs, kangaroos, dingoes and many others sing the classic rhyme as only they can. Readers are treated to Michael Salmon's zany illustrations with sharks go a-surfin', possums playing, dingoes dancing and wombats washing.
The lyrics shown on the page are:
- 12 possums playing
- 11 lizards leaping
- 10 wombats washing
- 9 crocs a-snoozing
- 8 dingos dancing
- 7 emus laying
- 6 sharks a-surfing
- 5 kangaroos
- 4 lyrebirds
- 3 wet galahs
- 2 snakes on skis
- And a kookaburra in a gum tree.
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