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.
Awards
- CBCA BOOK OF THE YEAR – EVE POWNALL AWARD 2019
- SPEECH PATHOLOGY BOOK OF THE YEAR 2018
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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.
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.
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