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Waves
For Those Who Come Across the Sea
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Waves is a narrative nonfiction book about the waves of migration to the shores of Australia.
Every journey is perilous, every situation heartbreaking. Every refugee is a person forced by famine, war, or fear to leave their home, their families, their friends, and all they know. Children have travelled on the waves of migration to the shores of Australia for tens of thousands of years. This book tells some of their stories.
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Waves by Donna Rawlins is lauded for its beautiful writing and stunning illustrations. It's praised as a superb example of narrative non-fiction for children, capturing significant themes that resonate in homes and schools.
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ISBN: 9781760654450
Publisher: Walker Books Australia
Format: Paperback / softback
Date Published: 07 July 2021
Country: Australia
Imprint: Walker Books Australia
Contributors:
- Illustrated by Mark Jackson
- Illustrated by Heather Potter
Audience: Children
DIMENSIONS
Width: 252.0mm
Height: 260.0mm
Weight: 239g
Pages: 40
About the Author
Donna Rawlins is an illustrator, book designer and teacher who has specialised in making books for children for most of her working life. She has won many awards for her work and in 2003 was the recipient of the prestigious Lady Cutler Award, presented by the Children’s Book Council of New South Wales, for her outstanding contribution to the children’s book industry. Donna lives on acreage in the Lower Blue Mountains outside Sydney, New South Wales.
Mark Jackson is an illustrator based in Melbourne. He has co-illustrated several books with his wife, Heather Potter, and their work has been featured in several exhibitions. Mark has several titles published by Walker Books Australia: The Truth About Penguins written by Meg McKinlay, 2010; Not Like Georgie written by Scott Hatcher, 2009; and Stuck! written by Charlotte Calder, 2009, which was short-listed in the Young Children Category of the Speech Pathology Australia Book of the Year Awards 2010, and received a Notable mention in the Picture Book Category, Children’s Book Council of Australia Awards, 2010. Platypus, published in 2015 and a part of the award-winning Nature Storybook series, was a Notable Book at the CBCA Book of the Year Awards in 2016 and was also short-listed for the Wilderness Society Environment Award for Children's Literature in the same year. For more information and samples of Mark’s artwork, please visit his website: http://www.jackpot-art.com/
Heather Potter is an illustrator based in Melbourne. She has co-illustrated several books with her husband, Mark Jackson, and their work has been featured in several exhibitions. Their first Walker Book together was picture book Not Like Georgie by Scott Hatcher, 2008. Heather also illustrated the verse novel Pearl Verses the World in 2009 by Sally Murphy, which won the Children’s Book Category for the Indie Book of the Year Awards and Honour Book, Younger Readers category, Children’s Book Council of Australia Book of the Year Awards, 2010. Her latest book with Walker is Nanna’s Button Tin, written by Dianne Wolfer.
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