A queen wave A baby wave A wave on the sea A mad wave A sad wave A microwave on three – ding! The disparate elements represented in this rhyme are somehow crammed without crowding into one exuberant page – the seated baby and the dressed-up kindergartner ground readers and invite them in. Let’s lookContinue reading “The Moon in the Man 2002”
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Possum Magic 1983
From that time onwards Hush was visible. But once a year, on her birthday, she and Grandma Poss ate a vegemite sandwich, a piece of pavlova and a half a lamington, just to make sure that Hush stayed visible forever. Julie Vivas’s watercoloured scenes and characters exist in white space, anchored by the horizontal linesContinue reading “Possum Magic 1983”
The Aboriginal Children’s History of Australia 1977
Year 1 of 40 ‘This is our land. It goes back, a long way back, into the Dreamtime, into the land of our Dreaming.’ In paintings, drawings in texta and pencil, children from communities all over Australia tell stories from their world in the late 1970s, and times past. The format of the book isContinue reading “The Aboriginal Children’s History of Australia 1977”
40 Years of Picture Books 