Jaelyn Biumaiwai
Jaelyn Biumaiwai is a self-taught illustrator. She is of Mununjali and Fijian descent and lives and creates on the Gold Coast. She has a passion for Pasifika and First Nations culture and communities, and this is reflected in both her original and …
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Heroes, Rebels and Innovators
Be inspired and amazed by these incredible Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander icons! With …
Year:
Primary
Author:
Karen Wyld
Illustrator:
Jaelyn Biumaiwai
Publisher:
Hachette Australia
Published year:
2021
My Deadly Boots
An empowering, uplifting picture book about what it is that makes you who you are, from the award-…
Year:
Primary
Author:
Carl Merrison, Hakea Hustler
Illustrator:
Samantha Campbell
Publisher:
Hachette Australia
Published year:
2022
Rawah Arja
Rawah Arja is a writer and teacher from Western Sydney. Her first novel The F Team (published by Giramondo in 2020) has been shortlisted for numerous literary awards including the Ethel Turner Prize for Young People’s Literature and the Victorian …
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The F Team
Meet Tariq Nader, leader of ‘The Wolf Pack’ at Punchbowl High, who has been commanded by the new…
Year:
Secondary
Author:
Rawah Arja
Publisher:
Giramondo Publishing
Published year:
2020
Felicity Castagna
Felicity Castagna won the 2014 Prime Minister’s Literary Award for Young Adult Fiction for her novel, The Incredible Here and Now, which was shortlisted for the Children’s Book Council of Australia and NSW Premier’s Literary Awards, and adapted…
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The Incredible Here and Now
Michael’s older brother dies at the beginning of the summer he turns 15, but as its title suggests…
Year:
Secondary
Author:
Felicity Castagna
Publisher:
Giramondo Publishing
Published year:
2013
Mirranda Burton
Mirranda Burton was born in Auckland, New Zealand, in 1973. She became a printmaker at the age of ten, a dedicated marimba player in her teens, and a Super 8 stop motion filmmaker at 21. She graduated from the North Adelaide School of Art in South …
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Claire Saxby
Claire Saxby was born in Melbourne, moved to Newcastle as a toddler and to Bougainville Island in PNG when she was ten. She attended many schools around Australia before studying in Melbourne to become a podiatrist. For several years Claire worked in…
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Jess Racklyeft
Jess Racklyeft creates a variety of illustrated things – picture books, paintings, prints, pins and cards – mainly in watercolours. She works from her Melbourne home studio with her cat and dog at her feet, and occasionally one of her kids joins …
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