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Your brains must be mashed. You know those Leary boys. You don't mess around with them.

Ray lied to the school bullies and now he has to find a way into the Olympics before the Leary boys make mincemeat out of him.

Ray's Olympics

Ray's Olympics
by Libby Gleeson. Illustrated by David Cox.

ISBN 1 876944 43 9
198mm x 130mm, 64pp
black and white illustrations
RRP $9.95

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Libby Gleeson writes wonderful books for children! She has won many awards including for Hannah and the Tomorrow Room, Hannah Plus One and Shutting the Chooks In.

David Cox conveys so much with a few strokes of the pen. In Ray's Olympics he brings the 1950s to life and portrays characters we can instantly recognise.

Ray's Olympics features an original ABC outside television broadcast van, part of the National Museum's collection.

More resources

> Interactive on the ABC van
(requires Flash version 8, see link below)
> Explore Ray's Olympics
> Classroom activities


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