Staff faves...July 2022

Published on 01 July 2022

NAIDOC Week features on the calendar this month so we asked staff if they had any recommendations in celebration of this. 

Dropbear
by Evelyn Araluen

Evelyn Araluen’s debut prose/poetry collection won the 2022 Stella Prize in the first year that poetry was included in the $60,000 prize. It’s a slim book but it packs a punch.

“Dropbear can teach us all if we are willing to learn how to read, to listen, to comprehend.” – John Kinsella, Sydney Morning Herald

Shana

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Gumbaynggirr Yuludarla Jandaygam : Gumbaynggirr dreaming story collection
by Shannon, Phillip. Edited by Steve Morelli, Gary Williams, Dallas Walker; illustrated by Shaa Smith

An extensive collection of Dreaming stories from the Gumbaynggirr region on the East Coast of Australia. It brings together stories about many aspects of spiritual life, including the first three hero Ancestors, Yuludarla, Gawnggan and Birrugan, Muurrbay Bundani – The tree of life, How the sea was made and Moon Man – Giidanyba.

Nick

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Kunyi
by Jane June Anne McInerney

A beautiful Junior Non-fiction book that received the CBCA’s Notable Eve Pownall Award 2022.

It tells the story of a young indigenous girl taken from her family in the 1960’s. The book is an extraordinary collection of over 60 paintings, accompanied by stories, Kunyi presents a rare chronicle of what life was like for her and the other Children's Home kids who became her family.

Susan

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