Kirli Saunders
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…
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Matt Ottley
Matt Ottley is a multi-modal artist working across the fields of visual arts, music and literature. He is an award-winning picture book writer and illustrator, with 25 picture books published. He spent his childhood in Papua New Guinea, and has …
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The Incredible Freedom Machines
In this sumptuous story of exploration and breaking boundaries, a young girl uncovers her very …
Year:
Primary, Year 5
Author:
Kirli Saunders
Illustrator:
Matt Ottley
Publisher:
Scholastic Australia
Published year:
2018
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Rebecca Young
Rebecca Young is an award-winning author from Sydney. Teacup (illustrated by Matt Ottley) won the Patricia Wrightson Prize for Children’s Literature in the NSW Premier’s Literary Awards, 2016, and was named an IBBY Australia Honour Book for …
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Teacup
This is one boy’s story of leaving his homeland, surviving a long journey by sea ... and …
Year:
Primary, Year 4
Author:
Rebecca Young
Illustrator:
Matt Ottley
Publisher:
Scholastic Australia
Published year:
2018
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Oliver Phommavanh
Oliver is a young Thai-Australian writer for children. He has featured on panels at the Sydney Writers' Festival among many other appearances at festivals and writing events as well as in blogs. He has worked as a primary school teacher and now …
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Thai-riffic!
It's hard being Thai, especially when you live in Australia, your house is a Thai cultural shrine, …
Year:
Primary, Year 6
Author:
Oliver Phommavanh
Publisher:
Penguin Random House Australia
Published year:
2010
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Jimmy Pike
Jimmy Pike (deceased) was born near Japingka, a waterhole in the Great Sandy Desert, in about 1940, and his early years were spent as a hunter and gatherer. He walked out of the desert when he was 14-years-old when his family moved to a Kimberley …
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Yinti, Desert Child
The first book in the Yinti series of three books. The stories are linked in a sequence that shows …
Year:
Primary, Year 6
Author:
Jimmy Pike, Pat Lowe
Publisher:
Magabala Books
Published year:
2019
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Lucy Estela
Lucy Estela's love of writing became apparent as early as age seven when she began writing and illustrating a multitude of storybooks and newspaper columns that were printed up at home and forced upon her family. Since then she has taken a …
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