"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."
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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).
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