"As Aboriginal people, if we lose our culture, we lose who we are and where we come from, and that's what we, as a community, don't want to happen".
Playground is nominated for the Eve Pownall Award for Best Information Book. It is written for an older primary school audience. There is a lot of information and text interspersed with photographs, maps and artwork.
This will become another favourite of school librarians everywhere.
The information was packed densely onto each page but I managed to garner fascinating nuggets from each section.
I liked how it was set out from creation, birth, childhood etc through to death. Detailing rituals, beliefs and day to day routines.
I found it difficult to work out who were the authors within the various sections of the book and which bits were written by Nadia Wheatley (if any).
Playground is a worthy nominee and it fulfills it's cover declaration of "listening to stories from country and from the heart."
Playground is nominated for the Eve Pownall Award for Best Information Book. It is written for an older primary school audience. There is a lot of information and text interspersed with photographs, maps and artwork.This will become another favourite of school librarians everywhere.
The information was packed densely onto each page but I managed to garner fascinating nuggets from each section.
I liked how it was set out from creation, birth, childhood etc through to death. Detailing rituals, beliefs and day to day routines.
I found it difficult to work out who were the authors within the various sections of the book and which bits were written by Nadia Wheatley (if any).
Playground is a worthy nominee and it fulfills it's cover declaration of "listening to stories from country and from the heart."
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