Publisher's synopsis
A unique picture book collaboration about having fun, sharing culture and the power of story and dance. A picture book to get the whole town dancing.
From pizza shop to bora ground, here is a joyous celebration of food, dance and cultural understanding.
When three young boys go to a pizza parlour and meet an Aboriginal chef who can speak Italian and make a deadly pizza, they’re in for a surprise!
All you fellas watching, come up, join in, warrima.
Clap your hands, little ones.
Stamp your feet, nannas.
Get down and dance, you smart young things, mummas and daddas.
Let’s get the whole town dancing!
Boori Monty Pryor is a storyteller, dancer, writer and educator, and Jan Ormerod is an internationally acclaimed picture-book author and illustrator. This glorious book is the first one they have cooked up together.
Awards
- Winner, 2011 Prime Minister’s Literary Awards, Children’s fiction
- Shortlisted, 2011 Speech Pathology Australia’s Book of the Year, Lower Primary
- Shortlisted, 2011 Speech Pathology Australia’s Book of the Year, Indigenous Children
- Notable Book, 2011 Children’s Book Council of Australia Book of the Year, Younger Readers
- Notable Book, 2011 Children’s Book Council of Australia Book of the Year, Picture Book
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STORY BOX LIBRARY
Boori Monty Pryor is an indigenous Australian born in Townsville, North Queensland in 1950. His father is from the Birri-gubba Nation of the Bowen region and his mother’s tribal group from Yarrabah, near Cairns, is the Kunggandji. Boori has worked in film, television, modelling, sport, music and theatre-in-education. He has written several award-winning books with Meme McDonald including Maybe Tomorrow, My Girragundji, The Binna Binna Man and Njunjul the Sun. His stories are about finding strength within to deal with the challenges without, and his skill is to create positive visions of the future for both Indigenous and white people. Boori travels extensively as a performer and public speaker for school students and adult groups throughout Australia and overseas. Boori was Australia’s first Children’s Laureate for 2012 and 2013.
Boori was one of the inaugural Australian Children’s Laureates 2012–2013.
Jan Ormerod grew up in the small towns of Western Australia, with three older sisters, and as a child she drew constantly and compulsively. She went to art school and studied drawing, painting and sculpture. After completing her degree, Jan became an Associate of the Western Australian Institute of Technology and Design in Education, taught in secondary schools on enrichment programs, and lectured in teacher’s college and art schools. Jan’s first picture book, Sunshine, won the Mother Goose Award in 1982 and was highly commended for the Kate Greenaway Medal. Her recent titles include Ben Goes Swimming, Emily Dances, Who’s Who on Our Street?, A Twist in the Tail and Ponko and the South Pole.
