We’d play the game… “I love you to the tree”, “I love you to the car”, “I love you to the clouds”, “I love you to the star” getting bigger and bigger and further and further with the kids. A... More
The much anticipated final book in the ‘Black Cockatoo’ series ‘Ngurra Home’ is here. Since 2018 you’ve followed 12 year old Jaru girl Mia, as she learnt about her place in her culture and community and began exploring her identity... More
Halls Creek in the Kimberley Western Australia is almost as far away from the big AFL stadiums as you can get. Perth’s Optus Stadium just a little 30+ hr drive down south. Barefoot, adventurous First Nations kid, Krstel Petrevski grew... More
Why choose ‘Tracks of the Missing’ for your high school novel study? Easy to access text- comparatively shorter than some similar texts used in novel studies in the Australian Curriculum such as ‘Jasper Jones’ (Craig Silvey) or ‘Deadly Unna’ (Philip... More
Book Week is coming up: 17-23 August… are you ready? Now is the time to be thinking about what your little people might be going to their book parade as. Or if you are a teacher… what your little people... More
You might be wondering ‘Where do I find good lists of deadly First Nations books?’…. and “where do you buy or borrow them”? Great places to find Australian Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander books, authors and illustrators, include: The Facebook... More
This week I’m gonna chat about the importance of role models- real and fictional- for children and teens. For those of you just joining, I am Carl Merrison, a remote outback Jaru and Gija man from Halls Creek in the... More
This week I wanted to chat about engaging disengaged readers. Those kids that stare out the window during free reading time, the ones who play up during DEAR time, the students who fiddle on the shared reading mat, the ones... More
We are so pumped that 2023 AFL season is about to start for 2023 (kick off in March!!) I (Carl) am a HUGE footy fan. I have always played since a kid kicking around on red dirt ovals, playing at... More
We are excited to share some NAIDOC 2023 activity ideas to get you started thinking about how you will celebrate in July 2023. Home Read First Nations books – see our NAIDOC book list here. Our books are perfect for... More