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Bindi

Winner of the Daisy Utemorrah Award
By Kirli Saunders
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Bindi by Kirli Saunders delves into the life of an eleven-year-old girl navigating her experiences and connections to family, culture, and land. Set against the backdrop of Australia's changing seasons, it beautifully explores themes of identity, community, and environmental awareness through the eyes of a young protagonist. This story, expressed in a poetic format, seamlessly weaves traditional Aboriginal perspectives with modern events.
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Format: Paperback / softback
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Winner, 2019 Western Australian Premier's Book Awards, Daisy Utemorrah Award

Winner, 2021 Australia Books Industry Awards, Small Publishers' Children's Book of the Year

Winner, 2021 Queensland Literary Awards, Children's Book Award

Winner, 2021 Speech Pathology, Australia Books of the Year Awards, Eight to ten Years

Shortlisted, 2022 NSW Premier's Literary Awards, Patricia Wrightson Prize for Children's Literature

Shortlisted, 2022 Adelaide Festival Awards for Literature, Children's Literature Awards

Shortlisted, 2022 Ena Noel Award, The IBBY Australia Encouragement Award for a Young Emerging Writer or Illustrator

Shortlisted, 2021 Children's Book Council of Australia, Book of the Year Awards, Younger Readers

Shortlisted, 2021 Australian Book Design Awards, Best Designed Children's Fiction Book

Shortlisted, 2021 Readings Children's Book Prize

Longlisted, 2021 Colin Roderick Literary Award

Age range 8 to 12

Meet 11-year-old Bindi. She's not really into maths but loves art class and playing hockey. Her absolute favourite thing is adventuring outside with friends or her horse, Nell.

A new year starts like normal - school, family, hockey, dancing. But this year hasn't gone to plan! There's a big art assignment, a drought, a broken wrist, and the biggest bushfires her town has ever seen!

Bindi is a verse novel for mid-upper primary students. Written 'for those who plant trees', Bindi explores climate, bush fires, and healing. It is told from the point of view of 11-year-old Bindi and her friends on Gundungurra Country.

Book Details

INFORMATION

ISBN: 9781922613448

Publisher: Magabala Books

Format: Paperback / softback

Date Published: 01 April 2023

Country: Australia

Imprint: Magabala Books

Edition: New edition

Illustration: Illustrations

Contributors:

  • Illustrated by Dub Leffler

Audience: Children

DIMENSIONS

Width: 140.0mm

Height: 198.0mm

Weight: 150g

Pages: 144

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About the Author

Kirli Saunders is a proud Gunai Woman and an award-winning international Children's Author and Poet as well as a teacher, and emerging Artist. She leads Poetry in First Languages, delivered by Red Room Poetry. Her debut picture book The Incredible Freedom Machines was shortlisted for the Prime Minister's Literary Awards and CBCA notables. Her poetry collection, Kindred (Mabagala Books, 2019) was shortlisted for the ABIA 2020 Book Awards and FAB Booktopia Awards. She is the winner of the University of Canberra ATSI Poetry prize (2019) and was runner up in the Nakata Brophy Prize 2018. Kirli is an esteemed judge for the 2020 Prime Minister's Literary Awards and Val Vallis Poetry Prize. Kirli is the 2020 NSW Aboriginal Woman of the Year.

Descended from the Bigambul people of South-West QLD, Dub Leffler is one of Australia's most sought after illustrators of children's literature. Dub's works are now in permanent collection in The National Library of Congress in Washington,DC. He has collaborated with the likes of Colin Thompson, Sally Morgan and Banksy.

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