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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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For 60 000 Years- Maree Silva. Illustrator Rhys Paddick
Scholastic Australia January 2024 ISBN: 9781760265274 RRP: $26.99 I am the first to say we are privileged to live in Australia, and I am grateful to have been born here. There is so much for which to be grateful, but there are also times I am ashamed of our national behaviour and attitudes (there will…
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Little Ash series #7 and #8 – Ash Barty and Jasmine McGaughey/Jade Goodwin
Harper Collins Australia October 2023 Everyone’s favourite tennis superstar, Ash Barty, is back with two new titles in her hugely popular series for newly independent readers. With engaging themes of sport, school, friends and family, these little chapter books have been such a big hit with the kiddos I know, both as read-aloud and read-to-self.…
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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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Borderland – Graham Akhurst
UWA Publishing October 2023 ISBN: 978760802646 RRP: $22.99 This is a really fresh perspective on First Nations YA, and was a hugely enjoyable and gripping read. Jono and Jenny have known each other all their lives and have just graduated as the inaugural First Nations scholarship students from their private school. Both enrol at Brisbane’s…
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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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We Didn’t Think It Through – Gary Lonesborough
Allen & Unwin July 2023 ISBN: 9781760526931 Publisher: A&U Children’s Imprint: A & U Children RRP: $19.99 We are all aware of the rise in youth crime – one would have to living in a hermit’s cave not to know about it. And most of us are aware that in some areas, the problem is…
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This Book Thinks Ya Deadly!: a celebration of Blak Excellence Corey Tutt/Molly Hunt
Hardie Grant June 2023 Imprint: Hardie Grant Explore ISBN: 9781741178159 RRP: $34.99 Corey Tutt OAM, is the young innovator and creator behind the Deadly Science initiative and the acclaimed The First Scientists, and this new book will impress you even more I think. It is a visual feast as well as a fantastic resource for…
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Custodians: Wylah the Koorie Warrior 2 -Jordan Gould and Richard Pritchard
Allen & Unwin May 2023 ISBN: 9781761180040 Publisher: A&U Children’s RRP: $15.99 Wylah proved herself in her first adventure, and achieved the near-impossible in uniting the five Guardians, now firmly at her side but her mission continues. She must press on through the Valley of the Spirits, with all its risks and dangers in order…
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