And that's the way it was. I would often go into the bush and watch the birds and think in some ways they were like me - they had to fend for themselves as soon as the mother bird thought that they were old enough. Every so often, there comes a story so brilliant and lively and moving that it cannot be left in the past. Rediscover the magic of our country's most memorable children's books in the Penguin Australia Children's Classics series of stories too precious to leave behind.