Category: Children | Series: Yinti
Age range 9 - 12 The second book in the Yinti series. Yinti and the hunting dingo, Spinifex, walk out of the desert together and Yinti sees a white man for the first time: `Look at that kartiya,' whispered Yinti, giggling. `You can see the blood through his skin!' When the dingo, Spinifex, is taken from ...Show more
Category: Children | Series: Yinti Ser.
Age range 9 - 12 The first book in the Yinti series of three books. The stories are linked in a sequence that shows Yinti's development from a young bushie to a competent station worker and adult. Yinti is a traditional Walmajarri Aboriginal boy growing up Great Sandy Desert in the remote North West of ...Show more
Category: Children
Age range 4 to 8 Frances and Lindsay Haji-Ali take us counting backwards from FIFTEEN to ONE on this spectactular journey in the far north of WA. When Frances and Lindsay lived with their family in Broome, they often set out to visit Nana in the tiny outback town of Wyndham over 1,000km north. These roa ...Show more
Category: Children
Ages 6 - 9 Long ago dinosaurs lived here, and their ancient footprints can still be found. Imagine if the dinosaurs came back to visit us! At high tide, they would cool down in Anastasias's Pool. Watch out for the big splash! They would play with the humpback whale calves off Cable Beach. Those little f ...Show more
Category: Children
Age range 3 to 8 Crabbing with Dad is a beautiful childrenâ__s picture book debut from Darwin-based author and illustrator, Paul Seden. Aimed at a younger audience, children will love reading about the adventures of two small children as they go out in the boat with Dad to set crab pots ...Show more
Category: Children
"Great-Grandpa Liman lives in a small house by the sea. There are no lights — just stars as far as the eye can see." Brother Moon is a powerful story lovingly told by a great-grandfather to his great-grandson. Beneath the dark sky of the Northern Territory, Hippy-Boy is captivated when Great-Grand ...Show more
Category: Children
"I only wish I knew decades ago what I know now." says Annette Millar.After 40 plus years of teaching mainly Indigenous students in a range of situations across Australia, Annette has been inspired to share what she 'knows now', through this manual. She has documented successful strategies for teaching ...Show more
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
Category: Children
Board book. Age range 0 to 3 Counting our Country in Arnhem Land Counting our Country is a bilingual counting book from Jill Daniels, an Indigenous artist who lives in SE Arnhem Land in the Northern Territory. Jill's paintings of animals found on her country celebrate her distinctive style and pla ...Show more
Category: Children
Written in Kriol and English, this is the story of Molly, a little pig who is rescued from the bush. She's taken back to the community where she finds a happy home. Happy, that is, apart from the local dogs who keep chasing and frightening her.Moli is greatly loved in her community, but what she loves m ...Show more
Category: Non Fiction | Reading Level: Eve Pownall Award
Bruce Pascoe has collected a swathe of literary awards for Dark Emu and now he has brought together the research and compelling first person accounts in a book for younger readers. Using the accounts of early European explorers, colonists and farmers, Bruce Pascoe compellingly argues for a reconsiderati ...Show more
Category: Activity books, Puzzles, Games
A stunning picture book and puzzle set from Australia's foremost indigenous illustrator.Run to the creek, perch on a rock, slip into clear crystal water. A visual and lyrical depiction of coming home to country from acclaimed author and illustrator Bronwyn Bancroft.