Frederick Douglass. I'm hearing more and more about him lately. And he was a total hottie.

Just read one of his autobiographies.

This picture book is a retelling of Molly Tasman Napurruria's dreaming narrative in English. It was translated by Christine Nicholls and illustrated by kids at the Lajamanu Community Education Centre. The story comes from Warlpiri country in the Northern Territory ( Read more... )

Terri-Ann White (Ed), Desert Writing: Stories from Country, 2016 ( Read more... )

3.13 Noriko Matsubara, Bocchi + Pocchi and the Bird, 2014

It's a kid's story about two socks going for a walk. What my children liked the most was the photos of the author knitting models of the socks at the end. She wrote it! She illustrated it! She made the socks!

Olive Senior, Anna Carries Water, illustrated by Laura James, 2013 ( Read more... )

3.12 Katrina Goonack, Marlene Goonack, and Myron Goonack, Scaly-Tailed Possum and Echidna, 2010 ( Read more... )

Sally Morgan, The Last Dance, 2012

As with most picture books by Sally Morgan, this one has colourful art and challenging text. It’s a bit grim, though, as the book catalogues a whole lot of endangered native fauna, all doing their last dance. Alas.

How I Go to School, Sharon Galleguillos, Perri-Ann Kelly, 2002 ( Read more... )

Oxfam, Around the World - At School, 2010 ( Read more... )

It has nice colourful illustrations, but does not name the illustrator.

The text has a good combination of repetition and changes, so that my six year old could read it with occasional prompting. (The word python is unexpected, and looking at the illustration lead to the guess p-snake?)