Author: Tamzyne Richardson
Publisher:
ISBN: 9781921248467
Category : Australian fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 31
Book Description
"In a unique collaboration between Tamzyne Richardson, Brownyn [i.e. Bronwyn] Houston and a group of young artists, My Home Broome captures the heart and soul of Broome in Australia's north west. From Yawuru bush tucker to deep-sea divers and dinosaur footprints, this breathtaking array of artistic expression celebrates the beauty and cultural heritage of the town and its people"--Back cover.
My Home Broome
Author: Tamzyne Richardson
Publisher:
ISBN: 9781921248467
Category : Australian fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 31
Book Description
"In a unique collaboration between Tamzyne Richardson, Brownyn [i.e. Bronwyn] Houston and a group of young artists, My Home Broome captures the heart and soul of Broome in Australia's north west. From Yawuru bush tucker to deep-sea divers and dinosaur footprints, this breathtaking array of artistic expression celebrates the beauty and cultural heritage of the town and its people"--Back cover.
Publisher:
ISBN: 9781921248467
Category : Australian fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 31
Book Description
"In a unique collaboration between Tamzyne Richardson, Brownyn [i.e. Bronwyn] Houston and a group of young artists, My Home Broome captures the heart and soul of Broome in Australia's north west. From Yawuru bush tucker to deep-sea divers and dinosaur footprints, this breathtaking array of artistic expression celebrates the beauty and cultural heritage of the town and its people"--Back cover.
Punch Me Up to the Gods
Author: Brian Broome
Publisher: Houghton Mifflin
ISBN: 0358439108
Category : Biography & Autobiography
Languages : en
Pages : 277
Book Description
Playful, poignant and wholly original, this coming-of-age memoir about Blackness, masculinity and addiction follows the author, a poet and screenwriter, as he recounts his experiences, revealing a perpetual outsider awkwardly squirming to find his way in. --
Publisher: Houghton Mifflin
ISBN: 0358439108
Category : Biography & Autobiography
Languages : en
Pages : 277
Book Description
Playful, poignant and wholly original, this coming-of-age memoir about Blackness, masculinity and addiction follows the author, a poet and screenwriter, as he recounts his experiences, revealing a perpetual outsider awkwardly squirming to find his way in. --
A Is For Angelica
Author: Iain Broome
Publisher: Legend Press Ltd
ISBN: 1908775629
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 229
Book Description
My life is different now. I don't go to work. I don't have an office. I stay at home, hide behind curtains and make notes. I wait for something to happen.' Gordon Kingdom struggles with the fate of his seriously-ill wife while patiently observing and methodically recording the lives of those around him: his neighbours. He has files on them all, including Don Donald (best friend and petty thief), Annie Carnaffan (lives next door, throws footballs over the fence), and Benny (the boy who paints with his eyes closed). Then there's Angelica, the new girl (42) on the street, with her multi-coloured toenails and her filthy temper. It's when she arrives that Gordon's world of half-truths really begins to unravel. Faced with a series of unexpected events and a faltering conscience, he's left with an impossible decision. Because in the banality of everyday life, what would you do if the unthinkable happened?
Publisher: Legend Press Ltd
ISBN: 1908775629
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 229
Book Description
My life is different now. I don't go to work. I don't have an office. I stay at home, hide behind curtains and make notes. I wait for something to happen.' Gordon Kingdom struggles with the fate of his seriously-ill wife while patiently observing and methodically recording the lives of those around him: his neighbours. He has files on them all, including Don Donald (best friend and petty thief), Annie Carnaffan (lives next door, throws footballs over the fence), and Benny (the boy who paints with his eyes closed). Then there's Angelica, the new girl (42) on the street, with her multi-coloured toenails and her filthy temper. It's when she arrives that Gordon's world of half-truths really begins to unravel. Faced with a series of unexpected events and a faltering conscience, he's left with an impossible decision. Because in the banality of everyday life, what would you do if the unthinkable happened?
Return of the Dinosaurs
Author: Bronwyn Houston
Publisher: Magabala Books
ISBN: 1925360393
Category : Juvenile Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 33
Book Description
Ages 6 - 9 Long ago dinosaurs lived here, and their ancient footprints can still be found. Imagine if the dinosaurs came back to visit us! At high tide, they would cool down in Anastasias’s Pool. Watch out for the big splash! They would play with the humpback whale calves off Cable Beach. Those little fellas have got a long journey ahead of them! A fun and dynamic look at what life would be like for dinosaurs if they were roaming the Broome coastline today! Reflecting the famous colours of north west Australia and its rugged environment, the textured collage layers of artwork capture the character and beauty of the dinosaurs, birds, and marine life.
Publisher: Magabala Books
ISBN: 1925360393
Category : Juvenile Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 33
Book Description
Ages 6 - 9 Long ago dinosaurs lived here, and their ancient footprints can still be found. Imagine if the dinosaurs came back to visit us! At high tide, they would cool down in Anastasias’s Pool. Watch out for the big splash! They would play with the humpback whale calves off Cable Beach. Those little fellas have got a long journey ahead of them! A fun and dynamic look at what life would be like for dinosaurs if they were roaming the Broome coastline today! Reflecting the famous colours of north west Australia and its rugged environment, the textured collage layers of artwork capture the character and beauty of the dinosaurs, birds, and marine life.
Island Home
Author: Tim Winton
Publisher: Milkweed Editions
ISBN: 1571319581
Category : Travel
Languages : en
Pages : 125
Book Description
The writer explores his beloved Australia in a memoir that is “a delight to read [and] a call to arms . . . It beseeches us to revere the land that sustains us” (Guardian). From boyhood, Tim Winton’s relationship with the world around him?rock pools, sea caves, scrub, and swamp?has been as vital as any other connection. Camping in hidden inlets, walking in high rocky desert, diving in reefs, bobbing in the sea between surfing sets, Winton has felt the place seep into him, and learned to see landscape as a living process. In Island Home, Winton brings this landscape?and its influence on the island nation’s identity and art?vividly to life through personal accounts and environmental history. Wise, rhapsodic, exalted?in language as unexpected and wild as the landscape it describes?Island Home is a brilliant, moving portrait of Australia from one of its finest writers, the prize-winning author of Breath, Eyrie, and The Shepherd’s Hut, among other acclaimed titles.
Publisher: Milkweed Editions
ISBN: 1571319581
Category : Travel
Languages : en
Pages : 125
Book Description
The writer explores his beloved Australia in a memoir that is “a delight to read [and] a call to arms . . . It beseeches us to revere the land that sustains us” (Guardian). From boyhood, Tim Winton’s relationship with the world around him?rock pools, sea caves, scrub, and swamp?has been as vital as any other connection. Camping in hidden inlets, walking in high rocky desert, diving in reefs, bobbing in the sea between surfing sets, Winton has felt the place seep into him, and learned to see landscape as a living process. In Island Home, Winton brings this landscape?and its influence on the island nation’s identity and art?vividly to life through personal accounts and environmental history. Wise, rhapsodic, exalted?in language as unexpected and wild as the landscape it describes?Island Home is a brilliant, moving portrait of Australia from one of its finest writers, the prize-winning author of Breath, Eyrie, and The Shepherd’s Hut, among other acclaimed titles.
Flute in the Forest
Author: Leela Gaur Broome
Publisher: Penguin UK
ISBN: 8184754191
Category : Juvenile Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 150
Book Description
‘Thirteen-year-old Atiya will win the hearts of young readers. Although physically handicapped; her adventurous spirit takes her on lonely rambles into the wildlife sanctuary. She knows the ways of the jungle and its creatures great and small. A charming story; full of incident and good feeling. Atiya’s flute has a special magic of its own.’—Ruskin Bond Atiya Sardare lives with her dad; a forest officer. An only child; afflicted by polio; she finds solace and peace in the jungle; exploring it on short; secret; often dangerous treks. On one occasion she hears the haunting notes of a flute. It gives her goose bumps. She vows to learn to play the instrument much against her father’s wishes. Her music lessons bring her close to the grouchy old anthropologist; Ogre Uncle; and his Kurumba tribal daughter; Mishora. Atiya’s gift transforms her father’s view; it calms the rogue elephant; Rangappa and helps nurture a blossoming friendship between a teenage boy and girl. A moving; tender; and mesmerizing tale; Flute in the Forest has wonderful incidents based on the real-life experiences of the author.
Publisher: Penguin UK
ISBN: 8184754191
Category : Juvenile Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 150
Book Description
‘Thirteen-year-old Atiya will win the hearts of young readers. Although physically handicapped; her adventurous spirit takes her on lonely rambles into the wildlife sanctuary. She knows the ways of the jungle and its creatures great and small. A charming story; full of incident and good feeling. Atiya’s flute has a special magic of its own.’—Ruskin Bond Atiya Sardare lives with her dad; a forest officer. An only child; afflicted by polio; she finds solace and peace in the jungle; exploring it on short; secret; often dangerous treks. On one occasion she hears the haunting notes of a flute. It gives her goose bumps. She vows to learn to play the instrument much against her father’s wishes. Her music lessons bring her close to the grouchy old anthropologist; Ogre Uncle; and his Kurumba tribal daughter; Mishora. Atiya’s gift transforms her father’s view; it calms the rogue elephant; Rangappa and helps nurture a blossoming friendship between a teenage boy and girl. A moving; tender; and mesmerizing tale; Flute in the Forest has wonderful incidents based on the real-life experiences of the author.
Loongie the Greedy Crocodile
Author: Lucy Dann
Publisher:
ISBN: 9781921248542
Category : Animals
Languages : en
Pages : 0
Book Description
"A morality tale for young children where Loongie finds out the hard way that being greedy can have dire consequences."--Provided by publisher.
Publisher:
ISBN: 9781921248542
Category : Animals
Languages : en
Pages : 0
Book Description
"A morality tale for young children where Loongie finds out the hard way that being greedy can have dire consequences."--Provided by publisher.
My Dad Has a Girlfriend
Author: Charmaine Broome
Publisher:
ISBN: 9780578592794
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 34
Book Description
This book is written to help children who may come from a blended family. It is designed to give hope to children who may be struggling with the fact their biological parents are no longer in a committed relationship. Some may struggle with questions such as "Is this my fault"? " Why does my life have to be this way"? The hope is to give children an alternate look at the positivity that can come with being a member of a blended family. Yes, there will be ups, and downs, but through Aria's life, each child can learn valuable lessons. Parents can learn one a well.
Publisher:
ISBN: 9780578592794
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 34
Book Description
This book is written to help children who may come from a blended family. It is designed to give hope to children who may be struggling with the fact their biological parents are no longer in a committed relationship. Some may struggle with questions such as "Is this my fault"? " Why does my life have to be this way"? The hope is to give children an alternate look at the positivity that can come with being a member of a blended family. Yes, there will be ups, and downs, but through Aria's life, each child can learn valuable lessons. Parents can learn one a well.
Counting Aussie Animals in My Garden
Author: Bronwyn Houston
Publisher:
ISBN: 9781922142542
Category : Animals
Languages : en
Pages : 28
Book Description
Age range 0-7 (or all ages!) Bronwyn Houston makes counting to 10 so much fun! Her textured and vivid illustrations bring a tropical Australian garden to life, with a touch of humour thrown in. From kookaburras laughing on a fence to bull ants marching through the dirt ... find out what these Australian animals get up to in Bronwyn's backyard.
Publisher:
ISBN: 9781922142542
Category : Animals
Languages : en
Pages : 28
Book Description
Age range 0-7 (or all ages!) Bronwyn Houston makes counting to 10 so much fun! Her textured and vivid illustrations bring a tropical Australian garden to life, with a touch of humour thrown in. From kookaburras laughing on a fence to bull ants marching through the dirt ... find out what these Australian animals get up to in Bronwyn's backyard.
Free Diving
Author: Lorrae Coffin
Publisher:
ISBN: 9781925360516
Category : Pearl divers
Languages : en
Pages :
Book Description
Free Diving is a poignant tribute to the Indigenous men and women who worked in the pearling industry as 'free divers' in the late nineteenth century in Western Australia. In a practice known as 'blackbirding' (forced unpaid labour), European pearl lugger owners used Indigenous people to dive for pearl shell. With no protective suits, the divers faced threats such as decompression sickness (known as the 'bends'), shark attack, or of being swept away by huge tides. At sea for weeks at a time, there was also the risk of the luggers being shipwrecked in cyclones that formed off the coast. The lyrical narrative is based on the celebrated song 'Free Diving' by singer-songwriter Lorrae Coffin. It sensitively reflects the emotional journey of a young man who leaves family and country to work on a lugger with Japanese and Malay divers by his side. Bronwyn Houston's illustrations are a deep-sea celebration that illuminate both the glory of the ocean and the extreme dangers encountered by the free divers. Free Diving is a fictionalised story of a young man lost at sea. Age range 7 to 10
Publisher:
ISBN: 9781925360516
Category : Pearl divers
Languages : en
Pages :
Book Description
Free Diving is a poignant tribute to the Indigenous men and women who worked in the pearling industry as 'free divers' in the late nineteenth century in Western Australia. In a practice known as 'blackbirding' (forced unpaid labour), European pearl lugger owners used Indigenous people to dive for pearl shell. With no protective suits, the divers faced threats such as decompression sickness (known as the 'bends'), shark attack, or of being swept away by huge tides. At sea for weeks at a time, there was also the risk of the luggers being shipwrecked in cyclones that formed off the coast. The lyrical narrative is based on the celebrated song 'Free Diving' by singer-songwriter Lorrae Coffin. It sensitively reflects the emotional journey of a young man who leaves family and country to work on a lugger with Japanese and Malay divers by his side. Bronwyn Houston's illustrations are a deep-sea celebration that illuminate both the glory of the ocean and the extreme dangers encountered by the free divers. Free Diving is a fictionalised story of a young man lost at sea. Age range 7 to 10