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Australians All: A History of Growing Up from the Ice Age to the Apology by Nadia Wheatley
$35.00 AUD
Category: Australian History
Winner of the Young People's History Prize in the 2014 NSW Premier's History Awards, this is a lavish and comprehensive history of Australia told through the eyes of young people. Australians All encompasses the history of the Australian continent from the Ice Age to the Apology, from the arrival of the ...Show more
Flight by Nadia Wheatley
$25.99 AUD
Category: Picture Books
Tonight is the night. The family has to flee. They've been tipped off that the authorities are after their blood. Set in biblical times, a small family sets off across a desert in search of refuge from persecution in their own country, and an ancient story becomes a fable for our times. Their journey is ...Show more
Going Bush by Nadia Wheatley
$16.99 AUD
Category: Environmental Themes
In 2005 author Nadia Wheatley and artist Ken Searle developed a Harmony Project with sixteen students from eight infant and primary schools in Sydney - some Muslim, some Catholic, some government schools. As well as experiencing the harmony of the natural environment, the children were encouraged to lea ...Show more
Her Mother's Daughter - A Memoir by Nadia Wheatley
$34.99 AUD
Category: Memoirs & Biography
"Why didn't you and Daddy want people to give you any wedding presents?" I used to ask. But my mother could never be drawn into talking about the wedding. Later, I assumed it was because she did not wish to be reminded of the ghastly mistake she had made in marrying my father. Born in Australia in 1949 ...Show more
My Australian Story: Banner Bold by Nadia Wheatley
$16.98 AUD
Category: Picture Books | Series: My Australian Story Ser.
Something is happening. I can hear bullets going off, and people are running down towards the Eureka field ...In 1854 Rosa Aarons and her family travel from London to the goldfield at Ballarat. She makes new friends, learns to ride a horse, and helps her family get by. Soon Rosa becomes caught up in one ...Show more
My Place by Nadia Wheatley
$19.99 AUD
Category: Environmental Themes | Series: Walker Classic Ser. | Reading Level: Children's - Grade 1-2, Age 6-7
This story tells how, between 1788 and 1988, the little plot of aboriginal land near Sydney has changed almost beyond recognition. As history shapes the new country of Australia so life on the piece of land changes from generation to generation.
Papunya School Book of Country and History by Papunya School Staff; Nadia Wheatley; Ken Searle (Illustrator)
$16.95 AUD
Category: Picture Books
Multi-award-winning, The Papunya School Book of Country and History is a unique and fascinating account of the history of Western Desert communities from an Indigenous perspective.
Playground by Nadia Wheatley; Ken Searle (Illustrator); Jackie Huggins (Contribution by)
$39.99 AUD
Category: Picture Books
With stunning photographs and illustrations, this book is a fascinating insight, from earliest times to today, into the experiences of Indigenous children, whose land was, and is, their playgroundThere are things which Indigenous children have been doing for thousands upon thousands of years. In traditi ...Show more
Radicals: Remembering the Sixties by Meredith Burgmann, Nadia Wheatley
$34.99 AUD
Category: Australian History
The Sixties -- an era of protest,free love, civil disobedience, duffel coats, flower power, giant afros and desert boots, all recorded on grainy black and white footage -- marked a turning point for change. A time when radicals found their voices and used them. While the initial trigger for protest was ...Show more
Sneaky Little Revolutions: Selected essays of Charmian Clift by Charmian Clift
$34.99 AUD
Category: Literary Essays
‘I know it’s a daring suggestion, but I’ll make it anyway.’ Charmian Clift was a writer ahead of her time. Lyrical and fearless, her essays seamlessly the personal and the political. In 1964, Charmian Clift and her husband George Johnston returned to Australia after living and writing for many years i ...Show more
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