Barney and the Secret of the Whales (12 page)

Angus&Robertson

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Children'sBooks
, Australia

First published in Australia in 2016

This edition published in 2016

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Text copyright © Jackie French 2016

Illustrations copyright © Mark Wilson 2016

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National Library of Australia Cataloguing-in-Publication data:

French, Jackie, author.

  
Barney and the secret of the whales / Jackie French ; Mark Wilson.

ISBN: 978 0 7322 9944 6 (paperback)

ISBN: 978 1 4607 0322 9 (ebook)

  
French, Jackie. Secret histories ; 2.

  
For primary school age.

  
Whales—Juvenile fiction.

  
Whaling—New South Wales—Juvenile fiction.

  
New South Wales—1788–1851—Juvenile fiction.

  
Wilson, Mark, illustrator.

A823.3

Cover design by HarperCollins Design Studio

Cover illustration by Mark Wilson

Cover image: Boy © Per Magnus Persson / Johnér Images / Corbis