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Raymaŋgirrbuy dhäwu When I was a little girl – Kylie Gatjawarrawuy Mununggurr
Magabala Books July 2024 ISBN: 9781922142306 RRP: $27.99 As you can imagine, I think the bond between grandmother and granddaughter is particularly special. It certainly is for me and The Kid, as it’s now been over nine years that I have been her ‘parental’ person. But I think it is the same the world over,…
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Circles of Life – Gregg Dreise
Penguin Australia March 2024 Alphabet Song / Rap – Aboriginal Style by Gregg Dreise – YouTube Together Forever By Gregg Dreise (featuring Ed Owen-Jones) Stop Motion Lollies & Pens Animation. – YouTube My Culture and Me by Gregg Dreise – YouTube Kookoo Kookaburra Song Gregg Dreise – YouTube I Open the Door Promo ILF –…
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Three Dresses – Wanda Gibson
UQP April 2024 ISBN: 9780702266355 RRP: $26.99 As soon as I saw this book, I wanted to review it as I knew it would be both beautiful and poignant. I’ve not been to Hopevale or Woorabinda, only as far as Cairns, but I know people who have both been and worked there. I have though,…
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Mimi and Buwaarr/Mother and Baby – Melissa Greenwood
Harper Collins Australia March 2024 Being your miimi (mother) is the most precious gift life can give. When you were born you opened my heart as wide as the ocean. Every new Melissa Greenwood book I see I love, and think – they can’t possibly get any more beautiful. And yet, here we are –…
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When the World was Soft: Yindjibarndi Creation Stories – Juluwarlu Group Aboriginal Corporation. Illustrated by Alex Mankiewicz.
Allen & Unwin April 2024 ISBN:9781761180651 Publisher:A&U Children’s Imprint:A & U Children RRP: $34.99 Creation – Ngurra Nyujunggamu Wedgetailed Eagle, Crow and Black Kite – Jargurrungu Wangangga GarranygaNyinkara the StonemanPelican and Quail – Jiruna YuyaBunggaliyarra – FallenBarrimirndi Most would know that I read and review every First Nations children’s book I can get my hands…
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Ginagay Gaagal, Hello Ocean – Melissa Greenwood
Harper Collins Australia October 2023 In her own beautiful and evocative way, Melissa Greenwood has brought readers another celebration of Country and culture, through her own eyes and experiences. This time we are invited to visit the gaagal (ocean) for play, adventures and tucker too. It is impossible to do justice to these gorgeous illustrations,…
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Listen – Nicole Godwin & Duncan Smith. Illustrated by Jandamarra Cadd.
Wild Dog Books August 2023 ISBN: 9781742036731 RRP; $24.99 With a very timely arrival given the upcoming opportunity to make a momentous national decision, this is the new brilliant and beautiful offering from the team who gave us the sensational We Are Australians [CBCA Award for New Illustrator 2023]. Duncan Smith, proud Wiradjuri man, and…
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The Welcome to Country Handbook: a guide to Indigenous Australia – Professor Marcia Langton
Hardie Grant June 2023 ISBN: 9781741178227 Publisher: Hardie Grant Explore RRP: $32.99 Professor Langton’s Welcome to Country, now in its 2nd edition, was hailed as a major comprehensive work on Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander Australia: culture, customs, history, etiquette, performance and more. Now we have this fantastic companion volume which draws on the information…
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My Little Barlaagany (Sunshine) – Melissa Greenwood
Harper Collins Australia May 2023 Gumbaynggirr artist Melissa Greenwood has created another beautiful and stylish picture book to add to your collection of First Nations titles. This is a dreamy and gentle bedtime love story between mother and child, country and culture. With a text that is interspersed with words from her own traditional language,…
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