Publisher's synopsis
Maggie and her mother await the long anticipated apology to the Stolen Generations. In the crowd Maggie loses touch of her mother’s hand and is lost.
In a time ‘long ago and not so long ago’ children were taken from their parents, their ‘sorrow echoing across the land’.
As the Prime Minister’s speech unfolds Maggie is reunited with her mother. But the faces and memories of the stolen generation are all around them.
Two stories entwine in this captivating retelling of the momentous day when Australia acknowledged the sorrows of past.
Coral Vass was born in Sydney, and has also lived in Bangladesh, Melbourne, Queensland and Japan. Coral often runs writing workshops for children to help them shape their own stories, encouraging literacy and creativity from a young age. Her books are predominantly fiction, but also include topics of Australian history, such as Meet Don Bradman released in early 2017. Coral lives by the beach in Victoria with her husband and four children. Sorry Day is her eighth book.
Descended from the Bigambul people of South-West Queensland, Dub Leffler is one of Australia’s most sought-after illustrators of children’s literature. As well as an illustrator, Dub is the author of two children’s books and is currently illustrating his 25th title. Dub’s work has afforded him travel to places such as remote Australia, Europe, Indonesia and America, and his illustrations are in the permanent collection of the Library of Congress in Washington, D.C.
Photo courtesy of Magabala Books
