Young Dark Emu by Bruce Pascoe
Longlisted for the CBCA 2020 Eve Pownall Award for Information Books Shortlisted for the 2020 NSW Premier's Literary Awards Patricia Wrightson Prize for Children's Literature Shortlisted for the ABIA Book of the Year for Younger Children (ages 7-12) Shortlisted for the Indie Book Awards 2020: Children's Shortlisted for the Booksellers' Choice 2020 Children's Book of the Year Award Age range 10]. The highly-anticipated junior version of Bruce Pascoe's multi award-winning book. Bruce Pascoe has collected a swathe of literary awards for Dark Emu and now he has brought together the research and compelling first person accounts in a book for younger readers. Using the accounts of early European explorers, colonists and farmers, Bruce Pascoe compellingly argues for a reconsideration of the hunter-gatherer label for pre-colonial Aboriginal Australians. He allows the reader to see Australia as it was before Europeans arrived - a land of cultivated farming areas, productive fisheries, permanent homes, and an understanding of the environment and its natural resources that supported thriving villages across the continent. Young Dark Emu - A Truer History asks young readers to consider a different version of Australia's history pre-European colonisation. 'Adapted for a younger readership from Pascoe's best-selling Dark Emu, this exquisitely illustrated picture book will transform how we see Australian history. Bruce uses the diaries of early explorers and colonists to show us the Australia where Aboriginal people built houses, dams and wells and farmed the land.' - Fiona Stager, The Courier MailBruce Pascoe was born in the Melbourne suburb of Richmond to Bunurong parents. He is a member of the Wathaurong Aboriginal Co-operative in southern Victoria and has worked for the Commonwealth Schools Commission as the director of the Australian Studies Programme. Bruce has worked as a teacher, a farmer, a fisherman, a bartender, a fencing contractor, a lecturer, an Aboriginal language researcher, an archaeological site worker, and an editor, among other things. Night Animals and Nightjar are short story collections; Fox, Ruby Eyed Coucal, Ribcage, Shark, Earth, and Ocean are novels; Cape Otway: Coast of Secrets and Convincing Ground are historical works; Foxies in a Firehose is a children's book; and Fog a Dox is a young adult novel that won the Prime Ministers Literary Prize for YA Literature in 2013.
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| ISBN 13 | 9780369390844 |
| ISBN 10 | 0369390849 |
| Title | Young Dark Emu |
| Author | Bruce Pascoe |
| Condition | Unavailable |
| Binding Type | Paperback |
| Publisher | ReadHowYouWant |
| Year published | 2020-08-21 |
| Number of pages | 116 |
| Cover note | Book picture is for illustrative purposes only, actual binding, cover or edition may vary. |
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