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
Dark Emu : Aboriginal Australia and the Birth of Agriculture by Bruce Pascoe
$22.99 AUD
Category: First Nations | Reading Level: very good
Dark Emu argues for a reconsideration of the 'hunter-gatherer' tag for pre-colonial Aboriginal Australians and attempts to rebut the colonial myths that have worked to justify dispossession. Accomplished author Bruce Pascoe provides compelling evidence from the diaries of early explorers that suggests t ...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
Heat and Light: First Nations Classics by Ellen van Neerven, Alison Whittaker
$19.99 AUD
Category: First Nations
Ellen van Neerven's award-winning collection of stories was inspired by the elements, and is exceptionally imaginative and varied.In this award-winning work of fiction, Ellen van Neerven leads readers on a journey that is mythical, mystical and still achingly real. Over three parts, van Neerven takes tr ...Show more