Warnayarra the Rainbow Snake (Educator Big Book) by Pamela Lofts (Compiled by)
$39.99 AUD
Category: Picture Books
This story is based on a story told by the Senior Boys Class at Lajamanu School, a bilingual school where Aboriginal children are taught to read and write their own language, Walpriri. Illustrator Pamela Lofts adapted the illustrations from original paintings done by the children for their story.
Yakanarra Songbook: About Our Place in Walmajarri and English by Jessie Wamarla Moora; Mary Purnjurr Vanbee; Chris Aitken; Alison Lester (Illustrator); Jessie Wamarla Moora and Mary Purnjurr Vanbee
$24.99 AUD
Category: Australian First Nations' Languages
There are 14 songs in this fabulous book, ten in Walmajarri language and four in English, all beautifully illustrated by the kids from the Yakanarra Community School. These are songs about how the Walmajarri came to Yakanarra and their special places: songs about hunting, fishing and collecting bush foo ...Show more
The Yield by Tara June Winch
$32.99 AUD
Category: Fiction | Reading Level: very good
Winner of the NSW Premier's Literary Awards 2020. Winner of the Christina Stead Prize for Fiction 2020. Winner of the Miles Franklin Literary Award 2020. Just tell the truth and someone will hear it eventually. The Yield in English is the reaping, the things that man can take from the land. In the langu ...Show more
Malu Kangaroo by Judith Morecroft; Bronwyn Bancroft (Illustrator)
$14.99 AUD
Category: Picture Books
"I will show you how to play with the ocean,"Said Malu-Kangaroo.He took some woodAnd he worked it,And he shaped it and rubbed itand smoothed it,And he floated it upon the water... Described by the author as a modern myth, Malu- Kangaroo is a poignant story which tells of how people first learnt to surf. ...Show more
Yinti, Desert Dog (Yinti #2) by Pat Lowe; Jimmy Pike
$12.99 AUD
Category: Early Reader | 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
Yinti, Desert Cowboy (Yinti #3) by Pat Lowe; Jimmy Pike
$12.99 AUD
Category: Early Reader | Series: Yinti Ser.
Age range 9 - 12 Gradually, Yinti and Wara grew accustomed to station life. They no longer ran and hid when they saw a motorcar coming along the road towards them. The third book in the Yinti series of three books. Desert Cowboy is the story of Yinti's return to the cattle station and of his life as a ...Show more
Yinti, Desert Child by Pat Lowe, Jimmy Pike
$12.99 AUD
Category: Early Reader | Series: Yinti Ser.
Age range 9 - 12 The first book in the Yinti series of three books. The stories are linked in a sequence that shows Yinti's development from a young bushie to a competent station worker and adult. Yinti is a traditional Walmajarri Aboriginal boy growing up Great Sandy Desert in the remote North West of ...Show more
Tjarany Roughtail (Kukatja & English) by Gracie Greene; Joe Tramacchi; Lucille Gill (Illustrator)
$17.95 AUD
Category: Australian First Nations' Languages | Reading Level: From 3 To 7
Tjarany Roughtail contains eight dreamtime stories from the Kukatja people of Western Australia s remote Kimberley Region. Each story is complemented by beautiful artworks painted by Aboriginal artist Lucille Gill that visually explain each story using traditional dot paintings. Told in English and Kuka ...Show more
No Way Yirrikipayi! by Alison Lester
$19.99 AUD
Category: Picture Books
Yirrikipayi the crocodile lives on the Tiwi Islands. he's hungry. He goes hunting, chasing animals in the sea and on land.What's for dinner? Meet the animals and learn their Tiwi names in this delightful book for all ages.'No Way Yirrikipayi began as a workshop idea and has grown into a fabulous picture ...Show more
Yira Boornak Nyininy (Noongar & English) by Kim Scott, Hazel Brown
$22.50 AUD
Category: Australian First Nations' Languages | Series: Wirlomin Noongar Language and Stories Project
Left stranded in a tree by his wife, a Noongar man has to rely on his Wadjela friend to help him back down. Yira Boornak Nyininy is a story of forgiveness and friendship. This story comes from the wise and ancient language of the First People of the Western Australian south coast, the Noongar people. In ...Show more
The Mark of the Wagarl by Lorna Little
$17.95 AUD
Category: Picture Books
Maadjit Walken is the Sacred Rainbow Serpent. She is the mother spirit and creator of Nyoongar Country in the south-west of Western Australia. She formed the landscape and the waterways, and made her first child Maadjit Wagarl, the Sacred Water Snake, the guardian spirit of all the rivers and fresh wate ...Show more
Moli det Bigibigi/Molly the Pig (Kriol & English) by Karen Manbullo
$19.99 AUD
Category: Australian First Nations' Languages
Written in Kriol and English, this is the story of Molly, a little pig who is rescued from the bush. She's taken back to the community where she finds a happy home. Happy, that is, apart from the local dogs who keep chasing and frightening her.Moli is greatly loved in her community, but what she loves m ...Show more