Publisher's synopsis
Meet 11-year-old Bindi. She’s not really into maths but LOVES art class and playing hockey. Her absolute FAVOURITE thing is adventuring outside with friends or her horse, Nell.
A new year starts like normal—school, family, hockey, dancing. But this year hasn’t gone to plan! There’s a big art assignment, a drought, a broken wrist AND the biggest bushfires her town has ever seen!
Bindi is a verse novel for mid-upper primary students. Written ‘for those who plant trees’, Bindi explores climate, bushfires, and healing. Written from the point of view of 11-year-old, Bindi and her friends on Gundungurra Country.
Awards
- Winner, 2019 Western Australian Premier’s Book Awards, Daisy Utemorrah Award
- Winner, 2021 Australian Book Industry Awards, Small Publishers’ Children’s Book of the Year
- Winner, 2021 Queensland Literary Awards, Children’s Book Award
- Winner, 2021 Speech Pathology Australia Book of the Year Awards, 8 to 10 Years
- Shortlisted, 2022 NSW Premier’s Literary Awards, Patricia Wrightson Prize for Children’s Literature
- Shortlisted, 2022 Adelaide Festival Awards for Literature, Children’s Literature Award
- Shortlisted, 2022 Ena Noël Award, The IBBY Australia Encouragement Award for a Young Emerging Writer or Illustrator
- Shortlisted, 2021 Children’s Book Council of Australia Book of the Year Awards, Younger Readers
- Shortlisted, 2021 Australian Book Design Awards, Best Designed Children’s Fiction Book
- Shortlisted, 2021 Readings Children’s Book Prize
- Longlisted, 2021 Colin Roderick Literary Award
Kirli Saunders (OAM) is a proud Gunai Woman and award-winning multidisciplinary artist and consultant. An experienced speaker and facilitator advocating for the environment and equality, Kirli was the NSW Aboriginal Woman of the Year (2020). In 2022, she was awarded an Order of Australia Medal for her contribution to the arts, particularly literature. Kirli’s books, The Incredible Freedom Machines (2018, Scholastic), Kindred (2019, Magabala), Bindi (2020, Magabala) and Our Dreaming (2022, Scholastic) have been celebrated by the Prime Minister’s, QLD, WA, Adelaide, Victorian Premier’s Literary, ABIAs, Kate Challis RAKA, Speech Pathology, ABDA and CBCA awards.
Photo by Salty Dingo Media, courtesy of Scholastic Australia
Dub Leffler is a multi-award-winning illustrator, writer, animator and mixed media artist, working in the arts through books, film, television, muralism and art education. He is descended from the Bigambul and Mandandanji people of southwest Queensland as well as being of French, Syrian and Irish heritage. His award-winning bestselling picture book Once There Was a Boy (2011) received international recognition, was acquired by the Library of Congress and was featured at the Bologna Children’s Book Fair. Sorry Day (2018) written by Coral Vass won the CBCA Eve Pownall Award, and Bindi (2020) written by Kirli Saunders was celebrated with countless awards, including the ABIA Small Publisher’s Children’s Book of the Year and the Queensland Literary Awards, Children’s Book Award.
Photo courtesy of Scholastic Australia
