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A New Penguin Leunig by MICHAEL LEUNIG
Category: Humour
A brilliant collection of Leunig cartoons. A hilarious treasure of original thinking. A New Penguin Leunig comprises pieces that have previously appeared in the Melbourne Age and the Sydney Morning Herald.
Cartoons from a Winding Path: Essential Leunig (Limited Edition) by Michael Leunig
Category: Humour
From the vast repertoire created by Michael Leunig since 1965 comes this inspired selection of his most universal and timeless pieces. Such is his prophetic insight that many of them are more relevant today - and funnier and more ironic - than when they were first published. This beautiful, colour-fille ...Show more
Common Prayer Gift Edition by LEUNIG, MICHAEL
Category: Philosophy and Religion
This is an illustrated collection of prayers. It contains 28 meditations/prayers, plus an introduction on prayer. The prayers have an element of social comment for a secular audience.
Curly Verse: Selected Poems - Popular Penguins by Michael Leunig
Category: Poetry | Series: Popular Penguins Ser.
In this selection of poems covering the period 1972 to 2002. This beautifully elegant volume excludes the cartoon element, focusing on Leunig's brilliant texts, with all their absurdity, hilarity, poignancy and joyfulness. Michael Leunig pokes fun at human folly and pretentiousness, deplores the idiocy ...Show more
Ducks for Dark Times by Michael Leunig
Category: Humour
A collection of cartoons about many strange and lovely things- kind words for dark days; simple poems concerning wonderful mysteries; reflections on sadness, joy, dismay, sanity, soup and beauty. Also- doubts, confessions, laments and tributes. Spirited depictions of dogs, ducks, teapots and trees, with ...Show more
Everyday Devils and Angels by Michael Leunig
Category: Fiction
'There was once a man who could no longer believe things that were said. All he could trust was sighing, sobbing, swearing, screaming and singing. If you asked him why he no longer believed, he would sigh... He would sob... He would scream and swear. And then he would start to sing like a bird.'Michael ...Show more
Goatperson and Other Tales by Michael Leunig
Category: Fiction
In this long-awaited new collection of previously uncollected material, Australia's favourite cartoonist and social commentator contemplates some timely questions: who are we? Where are we going? And where's it all going to end?
Holy Fool: The pictures of Michael Leunig by Michael Leunig
Category: Art and Design
At the heart of Michael Leunig's work lies the idea of the holy fool - a character who does not conform to social norms of behaviour because of mental disability or as a deliberate choice, but is regarded as having a compensating divine blessing or inspiration. The holy fool is the protagonist in most o ...Show more
Hot . . . and bothered by Michael Leunig
Category: Humour
Another collection of irreverent humour from the much loved Michael Leunig. First published 2007.
Introspective by Michael Leunig
Category: Fiction
The images contained in this collection were selected for an exhibition at the National Gallery of Victoria. Many of them are revealed in this book in a way in which they have not been seen before. Correction marks and 'signs of the struggle', normally etched out in the printing process, have been allow ...Show more
Leunig's Carnival of the Animals by LEUNIG MICHAEL
Category: Fiction
Publication based on an adaptation of the 'Carnival of Animals - A zoological fantasy' composed by Camille Saint-Saens (1835-1921) in 1886. The adaptation featured words and images by the popular cartoonist Michael Leunig, the performance of the Australian Chamber Orchestra directed by Richard Tognetti, ...Show more