Mad Magpie by Gregg Dreise
$26.99 AUD
Category: Educational | Series: Silly Birds Ser.
Mad Magpie is the third book in this series of morality tales from Gregg Dreise. Inspired by wise sayings and the knowledge of the Elders, Mad Magpie tells the story of Guluu, an angry magpie who is being teased by a gang of butcher birds. The more he is teased, the angrier he becomes. When Guluu seeks ...Show more
Tom Tom by R Sullivan
$16.99 AUD
Category: Early Readers 0 - 6 years
An honour book and shortlisted title in the CBC Early Childhood book of the Year Awards 2009. Tom Tomis an engaging contemporary story that traces a day in the life of a small boy living in a typical Aboriginal community in the Top End of the Northern Territory. It follows the adventures of Tom Tom as h ...Show more
Astronomy: Sky Country (First Knowledges) by Karlie Noon, Krystal De Napoli
$24.99 AUD
Category: First Nations | Series: First Knowledges
What do you need to know to prosper for 65,000 years or more? The First Knowledges series provides a deeper understanding of the expertise and ingenuity of Indigenous Australians. Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander people are the oldest scientists in human history.Many First Peoples regard the land a ...Show more
On the Way to Nana's by Frances Haji-Ali; Lindsay Haji-Ali; David Hardy (Illustrator)
$17.99 AUD
Category: First Nations
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
The Rainbow Serpent by Dick Roughsey
$16.99 AUD
Category: Early Readers 0 - 6 years | Series: Australian Children's Classics Ser.
A timeless classic from the Dreamtime. there are innumerable names and stories associated with the Rainbow Serpent, all of which communicate the significance of this being within Aboriginal traditions. Dreamtime stories tell how the Rainbow Serpent came from beneath the ground and created huge ridges, m ...Show more
Bidhi Galing: Big Rain by Anita Heiss
$24.99 AUD
Category: Early Readers 0 - 6 years
Powerful and moving, Bidhi Galing (Big Rain) celebrates the Wiradyuri heroes of the Great Flood of Gundagai in 1852, told through the eyes of a young girl who is rescued from the raging floodwaters by her father. Wagadhaany grew up near the Marrambidya Bila. She loved dancing in the rain and listening ...Show more
A is for Aunty by Elaine Russell
$16.99 AUD
Category: Early Readers 0 - 6 years
More than just an alphabet book, this title uses the letters A-Z as a framework to tell us about growing up on a mission in northern New South Wales. It is a first alphabet book with an Aboriginal theme and describes daily routines and incidents in and around the mission - including billycart racing and ...Show more
Miimi Marraal, Mother Earth (HB) by Melissa Greenwood
$24.99 AUD
Category: Early Readers 0 - 6 years
A beautiful and lyrical picture book for new babies across Australia Miimi Marraal, she created us, you and me ... From Gumbaynggirr artist Melissa Greenwood, of mother-daughter art and design label Miimi and Jiinda, comes a deeply felt and heart-stirring picture book about the connection between mother ...Show more
The Queen Is Dead: The passionate and powerful bestselling book by critically acclaimed journalist and author of Tears of Strangers and Talking to My Country by Stan Grant
$34.99 AUD
Category: First Nations
From Stan Grant, leading journalist and author of the critically acclaimed bestsellers Talking to My Country and Australia Day, comes an extraordinary and powerful call to action. 'History is not weighted on the scales, it is felt in our bones. It is worn on our skin. It is scarred in memory.' The Que ...Show more
Unbranded (First Nations Classics) by Herb Wharton, Kev Carmody
$19.99 AUD
Category: First Nations
Written by the legendary Queensland drover Herb Wharton, this is a striking vision of outback Australia- the friendship story of three stockmen working on mulga country in the far west.Herb Wharton, former drover, now celebrated author, unleashes a strikingly original vision of outback Australia- from t ...Show more
Holocaust Island (First Nations Classics) by Graeme Dixon, Ali Cobby Eckermann
$19.99 AUD
Category: First Nations
Written when the author was in prison, this collection remains a poignant historical plea for Aboriginal justice - from Black deaths in custody to Land Rights - and bears witness to contemporary Indigenous issues.Holocaust Island was the inaugural winner of the David Unaipon Award in 1989. Graeme Dixon' ...Show more
Birrung the Secret Friend (The Secret History Series, #1) by Jackie French
$12.99 AUD
Category: Middle Readers 7-12 years | Series: Secret Histories
From bestselling and award-winning author Jackie French comes a new series for younger readers called The Secret Histories. This first book in the series tells the story of a young indigenous girl, Birrung, who befriends orphaned Barney and his friend Elsie. Birrung is living with Mr Johnson, chaplain t ...Show more