🚪🧡Importance of DOOR books🧡🚪 A ‘door’ book is a book that shows readers new worlds- new pathways, opportunities, alternative realities. It might be a book about fish and underwater life, a book about birds in a nest, a book about... More
🪟🧡Importance of WINDOW books🧡🪟 A ‘window’ book is a book that allows readers to ‘look inside someone else’s life’. Through ‘waliking a mile’ in someone else’s life through a book- readers are encouraged to develop understanding, empathy, and compassion. We... More
🪞🧡Importance of MIRROR books🧡🪞 A ‘mirror’ book is a book that shows a reader a character that is similar to them, and/or a situation and/or a plot that is similar to the readers lived experience or a landscape similar to... More
📙🧡Hooking First Nations readers🧡📙 At the core of our work, we were inspired by the opportunity to hook First Nations readers. Readers who traditionally haven’t seen or read their stories told with diversity, complexity and nuance like some readers from... More
‘Ash Flies High‘ is the next middle reader book in the ‘Kimberley Kickers’ series. Following the successful ‘Krstel Kicks to Win‘ and CBCA Notables ‘Jy Goes for Gold‘ books, ‘Ash Flies High‘ is also set in remote outback Kimberley and... More
You might be new to our blog, or have followed us from the beginning. But this post is to re-introduce you to us, our story, and our ‘why’. We are long-term friends, Carl Merrison and Hakea Hustler. We met in Halls Creek back in 2013... More
We loved the review of ‘Ngurra’ on episode 219 of the podcast ‘Your Child’s Next Read’ at 4 minutes and 50 seconds In the chat a question was raised: “my only issue as a school librarian is where do you... More
📙🧡Encouraging new readers🧡📙 You might be a parent, a teacher, a librarian, an aunty or grandpa thinking about encouraging the little people in your life to read. In a world with TV shows, Youtube videos, Netflix and streaming services on... More
You’ve landed on our page and noticed there is lots of this.. We do not sell anything directly from our website- so you are not at risk from a scam or hack. It is just something we are troubleshooting from... More
If you loved ‘Jy Goes for Gold’ you will love the second book in the ‘Kimberley Kickers’ series. First Nations middle reader biography ‘Krstel Kicks to Win’ follows outback AFLW player, Krstel Petrevski, through her early years and adventures. Adventures... More