Paul Buddee was born on 12 March 1913, and died in December 2002. He was a teacher, a headmaster, and also a concert flautist, who conducted the ABC music broadcasts.  His first children’s book:  The Comical Adventures of Oscar and Olga was published in 1943. He did much sterling work with the Children’s Book Council, being on the organising committee for Children’s Book Week, as well as touring schools to promote reading, and converting classrooms and cloakrooms to libraries in schools.  He thought there were not enough accessible and popular books for Australian children, so wrote them himself.   There are four books in his Ann Rankin series.

Links:

An obituary of Paul Buddee

The Anne Rankin series

Ann Rankin and the Boy Who Painted Horses
Ann Rankin and the Great Flood
Ann Rankin and the House on Coolabah Hill
Ann Rankin and the Lost Valley
 

Paul Buddee

Ann Rankin and the Boy Who Painted Horses
Adelaide, South Australia : Rigby, 1973.

Ann Rankin and the Great Flood
Adelaide, South Australia : Rigby, 1973.

Ann Rankin and the House on Coolabah Hill
Adelaide, South Australia : Rigby, 1973.

Other works:

The Unwilling Adventurers
Brockhampton Press, 1967. [2 other publications included here]

Peter Devlin, Buffalo Hunter
Adelaide, South Australia : Rigby, 1973.

The Remarkable Ramblings of Rupert and Rita
Sydney, New South Wales : Currawong, [1944].

Peter Devlin and the Road Bandits
Adelaide, South Australia : Rigby, 1973.

Peter Devlin Fights for Survival
Adelaide, South Australia : Rigby, 1973.

Six Comical Stories About Rattigan Rat
Perth, Western Australia : Imperial Print Company, 1947.

The Comical Adventures of Osca and Olga : A Tale of Mice in Mouseland
Sydney, New South Wales : Currawong, [1943].

The Escape of the Fenians
Camberwell, Victoria : Longman, 1971. [1 other publication included here]

The Mystery of Moma Island
Leicester, Leicestershire, England : Brockhampton Press, 1969.

Peter Devlin, Range Rider
Adelaide, South Australia : Rigby, 1973.

Ann Rankin and the Lost Valley
Adelaide, South Australia : Rigby, 1973.

Many  thanks to Amanda Dolby for the picture. 

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