Anna the Goanna and Other Poems by MACDOUGALL JILL
$21.00 AUD
Category: Children
Ages 11 to 12 years. Cheeky dogs, slippery snakes and crocodiles with big smiles join Anna in this collection of lively illustrated poems. With warmth and respect, we're taken into the children's lives as they camp under the stars, go hunting for tucker and play football in the dust. Anna the Goanna pro ...Show more
Etta and the Shadow Taboo by Jared M Field, Jeremy Worrall
$27.99 AUD
Category: Children
Where is theirs? And where is mine? To hurt a shadow Is surely a crime When Etta steps on Baawaa’s (her sister's) shadow, she learns of the Shadow Taboo, and learns to value the personal space of others, as well as her own. Written by Gamilaraay author JM Field and illustrated by Ngarabal/Gomeroi artis ...Show more
A Kunwinjku Counting Book by Gabriel Maralngurra
$29.99 AUD
Category: Children | Series: G - Reference,Information and Interdisciplinary Subjects Ser.
Age range 7+One crocodile with many sharp teeth, two snake-necked turtles swimming in a billabong, three water goannas soaking up the sun... Learn to count with the animals of Australia's West Arnhem Land and the traditional art of indigenous Kunwinjku culture. One, two, three. Nakudji, bokenh, danjbik. ...Show more
The Trees: Learning Tree Knowledge with Uncle Kuu by Victor Steffensen
$26.99 AUD
Category: Children
Take a walk with Uncle Kuu in The Trees, a picture book about caring for Country and respect for Indigenous knowledge.Looking after the trees is important for keeping Country happy and healthy. First Nations People have cared for the trees on Country for thousands of years. In return, the trees look aft ...Show more
Jandamarra by Mark Greenwood
$32.99 AUD
Category: Children
"He emerged from the cave of bats with the name given to him by his people. He was Jandamarra - a man of power who could appear and disappear like a ghost." Set in the Kimberley region in north-west Australia, this is the story of a young warrior born to lead. To the settlers, he was an outlaw to be hun ...Show more
The Seven Sisters by Reggie Sultan (Illustrator)
$22.00 AUD
Category: Children
Aboriginal artist Reggie Sultan spent part of his early childhood catching goannas and rabbits and learning about bush food from his mother, uncle and other relatives who belonged to the Kaititja tribe near Barrow Creek in Central Australia. The Seven Sisters represent Pleiades, a small star cluster see ...Show more
Kookoo Kookaburra by Gregg Dreise
$27.99 AUD
Category: Children
Kindness is like a boomerang - if you throw it often, it comes back often. Kookoo the Kookaburra is the second heartwarming morality tale - set within the cultural context of the Dreamtime - by Queensland teacher Gregg Dreise. In the same vein as his first book Silly Birds (Magabala Books 2014) Dreise t ...Show more
Songlines: First Knowledges for younger readers by Margo Neale, Lynne Kelly
$24.99 AUD
Category: Children | Series: First Knowledges Ser.
How do you find your way around, get your food and drink, connect with your friends and family? How do you know the right and safe way to do things, or how to make things? Before the white people came to the continent, all Australian Aboriginal people knew how to do all these things - and much, much mor ...Show more
Our World: Bardi-Jaawi life at Ardiyooloon by One Arm Point Remote Community School
$33.00 AUD
Category: Children
Ardiyooloon is home to the Bardi-Jaawi people and sits at the end of a red dirt road at the top of the Dampier Peninsula, 200km north of Broome in the north-west of Western Australia. OUR WORLD: BARDI-JAAWI LIFE AT ARDIYOOLOON takes readers inside the lives of the children of a remote Indigenous communi ...Show more
Sea Country by Aunty Patsy Cameron
$27.99 AUD
Category: Picture Books
Summer is the season for ripening wild cherries, tatas, wild currants, canygong The canygong fruits taste like salty strawberries. In this delightful children's picture book, Aunty Patsy Cameron generously shares the stories and traditions from her family's seasonal island life in Tasmania. With evocati ...Show more
Tracks of the Missing by Carl Merrison, Hakea Hustler
$17.99 AUD
Category: Children Fiction
‘There must be payback.’‘There must, you are right,’ Grandfather agrees.‘What can you offer in exchange?’Grandfather holds up his arms, open, offering himself as a sacrifice. ‘I am old.’Deklan ‘Dek’ Archer and his mates arrive at school to a tense atmosphere. ‘Old Mate’, Mr Henry, who has lived in town ...Show more
Ask Aunty: Seasons: An Introduction to First Nations Seasons by Aunty Munya Andrews
$24.99 AUD
Category: Children | Series: Ask Aunty Ser.
Ask Aunty: Seasons is a delightful and educational picture book for children aged 5 to 10 years that introduces First Nations seasonal calendars. Have you ever been excited for the first day of summer, only to be disappointed when it arrives cold and rainy? For First Nations People, the seasons don't ch ...Show more