Reg Saunders : An Indigenous War Hero by Hugh Dolan & Adrian Threlfall
$20.00 AUD
Category: Young Adult
The little-known story of Reg Saunders, the first Indigenous Australian to become an officer in the Army, retold in action-packed graphic format. Reg Saunders MBE (1920u90) not only survived the World War II battlefields in the Middle East, North Africa, Greece, Crete and New Guinea, but excelled as a m ...Show more
Lucky and Spike by Norma MacDonald
$17.99 AUD
Category: Picture Books
Lucky and Spike is the thrilling tale of two spinifex hopping mice who leave their burrow each night to race across the plains in search of food. Avoiding predators is a risky business, especially when a feral cat and a ravenous owl are on the hunt. Lucky and Spike are heading to the people's camp to fo ...Show more
Big Fella Rain by Beryl Webber
$17.99 AUD
Category: Picture Books
Big Fella Rain is a celebration of northern Australia as animals, birds, trees and a parched earth await the first rain. It is almost as if country stands still as the sparse yet evocative text pays homage to the transition from dry season to wet season in a country that is like no other place in the wo ...Show more
Marngrook: The Long-ago Story of Aussie Rules by Titta Secombe; Grace Fielding (Illustrator)
$16.95 AUD
Category: Picture Books
A children's story based on the sometimes controversial theory of how Australian Rules Football developed from 'marngrook', a ball game played by Aboriginal people in north-west Victoria more than 150 years ago. This fictionalised story of Marngrook takes place at the foot of Duwul, the highest mountain ...Show more
Clever Crow by Nina Lawrence
$24.99 AUD
Category: Picture Books
Clever Crow is an endearing and witty tale that follows the exploits of a hungry and very clever crow. Crow searches in the bush for food but he can find none. It is only when he comes across people preparing for a ceremony that his luck changes. Crow spots a big turtle egg waiting to be cooked, and he ...Show more
Little Bird's Day by Sally Morgan
$24.99 AUD
Category: Picture Books | Reading Level: New Illustrator
A simple, universal story of a day in the life of Little Bird as she sings the world alive, flies with Cloud, travels with Wind, nestles with Moon and dreams of flying among the stars. Sally’s beautiful words and Johnny’s sensitive artwork combine to make this a beautiful, distinctive publication with g ...Show more
Wilam: A Birrarung Story by Aunty Joy Murphy
$26.99 AUD
Category: Picture Books | Reading Level: Eve Pownall Award
Wilam: A Birrarung Story is one day on a vital, flourishing river. As ngua rises, Bunjil soars over mountain ash, flying higher and higher as the wind warms. Below, Birrarung begins its long winding path down to palem warreen. Wilam – home. Yarra Riverkeeper Andrew Kelly joins award-winning picture book ...Show more
Nganga: Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander Words and Phrases by Aunty Fay Muir; Sue Lawson
$16.99 AUD
Category: Australian First Nations
Nganga (ng gar na): To see and understand. Aunty, Uncle, sorry business, deadly, women’s business, marngrook, dreamtime, Elders, songlines. Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander words have become part of our everyday vocabulary but we may not know their true meaning or where the words come from. In Ngan ...Show more
Marcia Langton: Welcome to Country youth edition: An Introduction to our First Peoples for Young Australians by Marcia Langton
$29.99 AUD
Category: Young Adult | Reading Level: 8.5 Kids Non Fiction
Marcia Langton: Welcome to Country schools edition is essential reading for any Australian high school student who wants to learn more about the culture that has thrived here for over 50,000 years. In this schools edition, author Professor Marcia Langton expands on the educational information from the f ...Show more
Young Dark Emu: A Truer History by Bruce Pascoe
$24.99 AUD
Category: Picture Books | 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
Wraith by Shane Smithers, Alex Smithers
$14.99 AUD
Category: Young Adult
James can fly, though his landings need some work. However, that's the least of his problems when he crash lands into a city in the clouds. Soon James is drawn into a race against time to find the SAFFIRE, a new technology designed to save the city from the effects of climate change. Finding his way hom ...Show more
Kookoo Kookaburra by Gregg Dreise
$24.95 AUD
Category: Picture Books
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