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Jy Goes for Gold (Kimberley Kickers, #1) – Carl Merrison/Hakea Hustler. Illustrated by Samantha Campbell
Harper Collins Australia September 2024 It was a strange bit of serendipity when two days after posting my Q&A with Carl Merrison, in which he mentioned this new series, I was asked to write teaching notes for this first one [despite the fact that “you are a NRL girl” haha!]. It’s not like I know…
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Helping Little Star – Sally Morgan and Blaze Kwaymullina. Illustrations by Sally Morgan.
Walker Books Australia July 2024 ISBN13:9781760658700 Australia RRP:$16.99 New Zealand RRP:$18.99 August 4 is National Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander Children’s Day so what a better to mark that than with some reviews of some wonderful new titles. What an absolutely charming story this is for Smalls! It is essentially quite simple but could easily develop into…
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From Thoughts Become Words – Gretchen Bernet- Ward reblog
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Keep the Fire Burning – all year
Thanks for coming along to NAIDOC 2024 here at Just So Stories. I truly hope you have found something to share or learned something from this year’s posts. I can see by the stats that there have been many visitors and many downloads so I’m guessing some people have found it useful. KEEP THE FIRE…
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A Very Secret Trade
Allen & Unwin April 2024 ISBN:9781761066344 Imprint: Allen & Unwin RRP: $34.99 The great Australian silence In 1968, anthropologist W.E.H. Stanner talked in his Boyer lecture After the Dreaming about the “cult of forgetfulness” practiced on a national scale in Australia, which he termed “the Great Australian Silence”– where Australians do not just fail to acknowledge the atrocities of the past,…
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