| ISBN |
9781925360844 hardback |
| Name |
Pascoe, Bruce, 1947- author. |
| Title |
Young dark emu : a truer history / Bruce Pascoe. |
| Published |
Broome, WA : Magabala Books, 2019. |
| ©2019. |
| Description |
78 pages : illustrations, map ; 25 cm. |
| Notes |
Cultural sensitivity advisory notice: Aboriginal, Torres Strait Islander and other First Nations people are advised that this item may contain names, recordings, images, photographs, illustrations and text of deceased people and other content that may be culturally sensitive. |
| Premier's reading challenge (NSW) grades 7-9. |
| Includes bibliographical references and index. |
| Contents |
Introduction -- One - The land grab -- Two - Agriculture -- Three - Aquaculture -- Four - Home -- Five - Food storage -- Six - Fire -- Sacred places -- Sustainable futures -- Acknowledgements -- Bibliography -- Picture credits -- Index -- About the author. |
| Summary |
Bruce Pascoe has collected a swathe of literary awards for Dark Emu and now he has brought together the research and compelling first person accounts in a book for younger readers. Using the accounts of early European explorers, colonists and farmers, Bruce Pascoe compellingly argues for a reconsideration of the hunter-gatherer label for pre-colonial Aboriginal Australians. He allows the reader to see Australia as it was before Europeans arrived - a land of cultivated farming areas, productive fisheries, permanent homes, and an understanding of the environment and its natural resources that supported thriving villages across the continent. Young Dark Emu - A Truer History asks young readers to consider a different version of Australia's history pre-European colonisation. |
| Target audience note |
10+ years old. |
| Reading Program Note |
Premier's Reading Challenge 7-9. |
| Awards note |
Winner of the CBCA 2020 Eve Pownall Award for Information Books ; Winner of the Booksellers' Choice 2020 Children's Book of the Year Award ; Shortlisted for the 2020 NSW Premier's Literary Awards Patricia Wrightson Prize for Children's Literature ; Shortlisted for the ABIA Book of the Year for Younger Children (ages 7-12) ; Shortlisted for the Indie Book Awards 2020: Children's. |
| Subjects |
Aboriginal Australians, Torres Strait Islander and South Sea Islander |
| Aboriginal Australians -- Antiquities -- Juvenile literature |
| Land use, Rural -- Australia -- Juvenile literature |
| Aboriginal Australians -- Social life and customs -- Juvenile literature |
| Hunting and gathering societies -- Australia -- Juvenile literature |
| Aboriginal Australians -- Agriculture -- Juvenile literature |
| Aboriginal Australians -- History |
| Australia -- History -- To 1788 -- Juvenile literature |
| Australia -- History -- Juvenile literature |
| Genre |
First Nations |
| Other Names |
Adaptation of (work) Pascoe, Bruce, 1947-. Dark emu. |
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