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The Emu Who Ran Through the Sky: Tales from the Bush Mob Bk 2
SHORTLISTED, 2021 WESTERN AUSTRALIAN PREMIER'S BOOK AWARDS, WRITING FOR CHILDREN Tales from the Bush Mob is a series of books about the Bush Mob, a group of animals who work...
Greedy Frog
Way back before Once-upon-a-time time, there was the Dreamtime, and Yirray, the sun, drank all the water. A clever frog, Tjidalih, promised to take care of all the water. But...
No Hiding From the Woman in the Moon
A celebration of the moon, of life and of love from one of Australia s most acclaimed authors. By turns romantic and realist, Bruce Pascoe explores the urgency of the...
Big Sky: When the Emu Left the Earth
Big Sky, when the emu left the earth is an exquisite conversation of sky knowledge between Aboriginal farmer and award-winning writer Bruce Pascoe and astrophysicist Professor Ray Norris. This meeting...
In the Kelp Forest
An exceptionally stunning picture book that explores the beauty and strength of Country beneath the waves and celebrates the living kelp forests, their creatures, and deep cultural knowledge of Tasmania...
Wurnan: Sharing on Ngarinyin Country
In the Kimberley region of Western Australia, a group of Ngarinyin people have been engaging with archival material and travelling back to Country to remember and record traditional harvesting and...
Traditional Healers of Central Australia: Ngangkari
Traditional Healers of Central Australia contains unique stories, imagery and primary source material. Ngangkari are senior Aboriginal people authorised to speak publicly about Anangu (Western Desert language speaking Aboriginal people)...
Going for Pippies
Goin for Pippies is a beautifully illustrated children picture book that welcomes readers to a First Nations narrative about family, culture, traditions and a way of life. Join Wilaraan and...
Muttonfish Magic
Aunty Ruth remembers a day out with her late mother and brothers at the cove near their home at La Perouse. Mummy gets the kids together to learn traditional fishing...
Turbo Turtle: Scales and Tails Bk 4
During Dreamtime a lizard hatched out of a cluster of eggs. An eagle swept down and snatched him up! That lizard wriggled so much his tail broke off. He fell,...
Going Fishing with Nana
This beautifully illustrated story takes readers on an exciting fishing trip with nana in the far north of Australia. Through repetition and rhyme, readers are introduced to early education concepts...
Ruby's Web
Starting high school has been anything but smooth for Ruby. Not only has she become a social outcast for no apparent reason, but her cousin Amber has started pretending not...
Ngurra Home
We first met Mia in Black Cockatoo as she navigated her way through culture, Country and familial ties. The second book Dirrarn , follows Mia as she finds herself at...
A Savage Turn
A Savage Turn is a searing debut from a Gamilaroi author. Using his biting wit and refreshing insight into modern and traditional life, Luke Patterson takes readers to forest billabongs,...
Old Days
Old Days depicts the author s childhood memories while spending her time between Iwupataka (Jay Creek) and Ntaria (Hermannsburg), as well as frequently visiting Tempe Downs, her mother s Country....
Cloudmaker
Cloudmaker is an ancestral, ghostly being who has been busy preparing for the creation of worlds. He was an ancient being who belonged to a different time. During this time,...
if this is the end
A fearless and honest exploration of queer First Nations identity, and a vibrant celebration of imperfection and personal growth, if this is the end is a stunning exploration of what...
Bapa's Last Canoe
A simple, touching children s picture book about Bapa (Grandfather), a traditional canoe maker, and the making of his very last canoe. Bapa takes his three daughters away on a...
Fast Fish
In the Dreamtime there lived the Goodoo and Thuggai peoples. They looked different to the Murri people who lived near by. While the Murri s lived in the rocky overhangs...
Desert Tracks
Have you ever gotten lost in a book? Entranced into the world of a mysterious old story of Alice Springs published a hundred years ago, Millie, a Warlpiri teenager, is...
Always Was, Always Will Be
'Each protest has been a stepping stone to the next battle...' From the very first protest of January 26th as a Day of Mourning in 1938, to the Pilbara Strike...
Hairy Holes: Book 2
In the thrilling sequel of Hairy Holes , readers finally meet the mysterious keyboard warrior, Ned AKA Crypt_hunter19, on his journey to prove the supernatural beings known as Hairy Holers...
Raparapa: Stories from the Fitzroy River Drovers
Raparapa is a raw and gritty history that captures the harsh realities endured by Aboriginal drovers in the Kimberley. These storytellers capture a slice of history and showcase those who...
The First Sunrise
The First Sunrise is the first Mbabaram creation story to be published. Mbabaram creation stories are stories of the beginning of lands, skies and waterways environments. The stories hold lessons...
Getting Dusty
Getting Dusty is the much anticipated sequel to Jared Thomas' CBCA longlisted junior fiction Uncle Xbox (2023). When Dusty bloodies his bully's nose in a soccer tournament, he finds himself...
Willy-willy Wagtail: Tales from the Bush Mob
*Shortlisted for the WA Premier's Book Awards: Premier's Prize for Writing for Children* * Shortlisted for the Speech Pathology Book of the Year Awards 2021: 8 to 10 Years* Tales...
Young Dark Emu: A Truer History
*Winner of the CBCA 2020Eve Pownall Award for Information Books* *Winner of the Booksellers' Choice 2020Children'sBook of the Year Award* *Shortlisted for the 2020NSW Premier's Literary AwardsPatricia Wrightson Prize for...
Trouwerner
Trouwerner is an inviting yarn between Elder Aunty Patsy Cameron, the 28th Tasmanian Governor Kate Warner, and journalist Martin Flanagan. It weaves through the coming-into-being time, Trouwerner s colonisation and...
Benevolence
'The gut-truths presented in Benevolence are tied to a larger reckoning needed in Australian society one that involves a centring of First Nation voices, a willingness to address not just...
Cunning Crow
Remember beauty comes from within... Way back, before once-upon-a-time, there was the Dreamtime when all the birds were white. One of those white birds was a crow called Waan. One...
Mad Magpie
LONGLISTED, 2017 AUSTRALIAN BOOK INDUSTRY AWARDS, SMALL PUBLISHERS' CHILDREN'S BOOK OF THE YEAR WINNER, 2017 SPEECH PATHOLOGY AUSTRALIA BOOK OF THE YEAR AWARDS, INDIGENOUS CHILDREN'S CATEGORY Mad Magpie is the...
Lethal Lizards
'Galibaay had tricked him. That dillybag was full of honey. It stuck in his throat and made his neck flare out into a big red-and-yellow frill.' Lethal Lizards is the...
My Dad's Gone Away
Tarah missed her Dad and she asked her Mum where he had gone... Tarah's dad has gone away, and she doesn't know where. She imagines he is doing all the...
Sky Country
'With our grandmother we walk all the way to the peak of the mountain. Cold wind blows through our hair. "Yah Melaythenner, Peulinghenar," Grandmother calls. Hello Country. Greetings. We hear...
Kookoo Kookaburra
**Winner, 2016 Australian Book Industry Awards, Reader's Choice award** **Shortlisted, 2016 Australian Book Industry Awards, Small Publishers' Children's Book of the Year** **Shortlisted, 2016 Speech Pathology Australia Book of the...
Awesome Emu
Age range 3 to 9 A charming morality tale that reminds us to be humble about our successes. Way back, before once-upon-a-time time, there was the Dreamtime, and during this...
Refugia
'in ember and ash / the heart of the Noongar Nation beats buried...' Refugia is an unparalleled work of vision and political fury from Noongar and Yawuru poet and scholar...
Kangaroo Stew
'You gonna sell your soul for a fist full of diamonds?' David's family think he's come home for the anniversary of his Dad's death. But he's got another reason to...
The Shield and the Spear: The Kimberley Land Council
** Shortlisted for WA Premier's Prize for Book of the Year 2023 ** '... you need an organisation like the KLC to be your shield and spear, to be able...
Turtle Tears
This heart-warming picture book gently reassures children that it is both natural and healthy for adults and children to cry when they are sad. Narrated from the voice of a...
Kalyakoorl, Ngalak Warangka: Forever, we sing
Kalyakoorl, ngalak warangka, (Forever, we sing), is a celebration of rare Noongar language, and the things we share as community. Over many years, Noongar language has been reduced to a...
Cartwarra or what?: Selected poems and short stories
You are indeed / a truly deadly solid / moorditj yorgah An' um / jerrepjing something wicked / for you But um / just a wintjarren Nyoongar man Cartwarra or...
FIFO - Fit In or F**k Off!
JONO: 'Sometimes it feels like...' [Pause]. 'I don't fit in at home! I'm tryin' to juggle two worlds here and if you don't tell me things, it gets easier and...
Memoirs from the Corner Country: The Story of May Hunt
'Nanna was an imposing woman. She was large and dark, with strong arms and silver hair that fell to her waist ... Her scars bore testament to her physical adventures...yet...
The Girl from the Great Sandy Desert
Age range 8 to 13 'Mana was born under a tree. The country she grew up in was wide as the sky, and the sun shone hot for most of...
Growing up Wiradjuri
Age range 7+ 'These stories form part of our collective history, the way we speak of and live culture still today, and the importance of passing on such stories to...
ART
**Shortlisted, ALS Gold Medal 2023** ART is the second collaborative poetry work from Charmaine Papertalk Green and John Kinsella. It is a formidable call and response piece that builds on...
Where's my baby?
Age range 3 to 9 Where's my baby? by Gregg Dreise is a board book that encourages young readers to learn new adjectives in English and the names of iconic...