Bindi

Bindi

Saunders, Kirli, Leffler, Dub

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Awards

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

Winner of the Daisy Utemorrah Award

Age range 8 to 12

new year
new class
new teachers
Mr Milburn
Mrs Szonyi (Zur-Knee)
new shoes
and shirts
same old bottles green and gold...

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. Written from the point of view of 11-year-old, Bindi and her friends on Gundungurra Country.

'Multi–award winning author and poet Kirli Saunders turns her talent to junior fiction with this wonderfully engaging verse novel, which won the inaugural WA Premier’s Daisy Utemorrah Award...Saunders notes that Bindi is ‘in many ways autobiographical’ and this is evident in the way she so keenly evokes the sights, sounds and smells of growing up in the country. Indeed, Saunders’ intensely evocative prose conjured memories of the long summer evenings, dry grass and petrichor of this reviewer’s own country childhood. The seamless interweaving of English and Gundungurra words is wonderful and, although there is a glossary at the back, Saunders’ skill at melding the two languages ensures that understanding can be gained from context. With gorgeous black and white illustrations by the esteemed Dub Leffler, Bindi is a must-read for ages seven and up.' — Hannah Gardiner, Books+Publishing

Author:   Saunders, Kirli, Leffler, Dub
Publisher:   Magabala Books
ISBN:  

9781925936667


Pages:   144
Publication Date:   01 October 2020
Bind Format:   Hardback
Availability:  
This item is in stock and will be dispatched immediately.

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Winner of the Daisy Utemorrah Award

Age range 8 to 12

new year
new class
new teachers
Mr Milburn
Mrs Szonyi (Zur-Knee)
new shoes
and shirts
same old bottles green and gold...

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. Written from the point of view of 11-year-old, Bindi and her friends on Gundungurra Country.

'Multi–award winning author and poet Kirli Saunders turns her talent to junior fiction with this wonderfully engaging verse novel, which won the inaugural WA Premier’s Daisy Utemorrah Award...Saunders notes that Bindi is ‘in many ways autobiographical’ and this is evident in the way she so keenly evokes the sights, sounds and smells of growing up in the country. Indeed, Saunders’ intensely evocative prose conjured memories of the long summer evenings, dry grass and petrichor of this reviewer’s own country childhood. The seamless interweaving of English and Gundungurra words is wonderful and, although there is a glossary at the back, Saunders’ skill at melding the two languages ensures that understanding can be gained from context. With gorgeous black and white illustrations by the esteemed Dub Leffler, Bindi is a must-read for ages seven and up.' — Hannah Gardiner, Books+Publishing

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Author:   Saunders, Kirli, Leffler, Dub
Publisher:   Magabala Books
ISBN:  

9781925936667


Pages:   144
Publication Date:   01 October 2020
Bind Format:   Hardback
Availability:  
This item is in stock and will be dispatched immediately.
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