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
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
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
Yinti, Desert Dog (Yinti #2) by Pat Lowe; Jimmy Pike
$14.99 AUD
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
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
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
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
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
Giinagay Gaagal, Hello Ocean by Melissa Greenwood
$24.99 AUD
Category: Children
An ode to happy days spent by the ocean, from Gumbaynggirr artist Melissa Greenwood, the creator of the heart-stirring picture books Miimi Marraal, Mother Earth and My Little Barlaagany. Gaagal (ocean) is our special place,we love to swim in the waves.We'll catch some yamaarr (fish),eat, dance and play ...Show more
The Lizard Gang by Kirra Somerville
$19.99 AUD
Category: Children
Meet Zed, Boo, Eliza and Zoroa spirited gang of monitor lizards who learn the meaning of teamwork when they work together to escape a raging flood. This morality tale highlights the importance of friendship and trust. Children will learn that the key is to work together and everybody is good at somethin ...Show more