The Useless Donkeys by Lydia Pender
The Useless Donkeys by Lydia Pender
The Useless Donkeys by Lydia Pender
The Useless Donkeys by Lydia Pender

The Useless Donkeys by Lydia Pender

Illustrated by Judith Cowell

The Quigleys live in a house on a hill on a farm, and Garibaldi and Peccadillo are the lovable but troublesome pet donkeys. They annoy Mr Quigley: "We'll have to get rid of those donkeys." They charm Mrs Quigley and, of course, delight the children. Then one day the floods come, leaving the donkeys stranded unhappily on a hill. But the children find a way to comfort their pets and in the process the whole family realise just how precious they are.

Condition: Ex-library in good condition with library stickers and stamps
Format: Paperback
Age: 3-8

Lydia Pender was born in London in 1907. Her family moved to Sydney in 1920. It wasn’t until 1957, at the age of 50, that she had her first book published. Marbles in my pocket (a
book of children’s verse), illustrated by Pixie O’Harris, was published by Nuri Mass. As a result of this
publication, she was inspired to write more poems for school magazines and start a new path of
writing picture books.

Her first love was always poems and verses. Her ideas often determined whether an idea became a
poem or a picture book. Her picture books were half prose and half poetry, a style that she made her
own. Lydia was awarded the Lady Cutler Award
for Distinguished Service to Children’s Literature in New South Wales, 1988.

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