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Weaving Country is a stunning picture book celebrating the importance of working together and sharing lessons from the land, featuring the beautiful First Nations language. ‘Around and around they go,’ says Walert, watching Gugung’s hands as they turn the wheel of woven reeds, growing slowly and...
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Weaving Country is a stunning picture book celebrating the importance of working together and sharing lessons from the land, featuring the beautiful First Nations language.
‘Around and around they go,’ says Walert, watching Gugung’s hands as they turn the wheel of woven reeds, growing slowly and surely, bigger and bigger.
Walert's grandmother, Gugung, is collecting reeds (djirra) to weave a basket (binak), and finally, Walert is big enough to take part and learn this important cultural practice. However, when a pair of blue wrens disrupt their work, Walert realises that the birds have their own lessons to impart.
This book features the Wurundjeri language and includes a glossary, offering readers a meaningful resource for learning from Country.
Book Details
INFORMATION
ISBN: 9781761603440
Publisher: Walker Books Australia
Format: Paperback / softback
Date Published: 01 September 2026
Country: Australia
Imprint: Walker Books Australia
Contributors:
- Illustrated by Ashleigh Pugh
Audience: Children
DIMENSIONS
Width: 248.0mm
Height: 288.0mm
Weight: 0g
Pages: 32
About the Author
Chris Joy is a writer, artist and curator who is a full time creator of public art. She lives and works in the Yarra Valley, Victoria. Chris has developed many children's literature programs, events and exhibitions in cultural organisations and was on the design team for the award-winning Ian Potter Foundation Children's Garden at the Royal Botanic Gardens, Melbourne.
Aunty Kim Wandin is a masterweaver and Wurundjeri Woi-wurrung Elder. She lives in Healesville. Her traditional basket making has been handed down to her by direct lineage. Aunty Kim’s work represents a significant cultural position within the south east of Victoria as part of an important group of arts practitioners.
Illustrator Ashleigh Pugh is a descendant of Whadjuk ballardong, who has developed her own distinctive style of blending traditional wood burning technique with painting. In 2020, Ashleigh won Best Landscape for the Linden Art Gallery Postcard Prize.
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