Listed below are over 200 titles, covering a wide cross-section of the Aboriginal Studies syllabus for NSW, from K-12. The aim is to provide you with a comprehensive range of material for classroom & library use, plus teacher resources and some titles aimed at tertiary use, for further study & community use. Please refer to the community list for a more thorough list. Beside each title in the general K-12 section is a code, indicating the area the book or DVD could be used in. These are a guide only. PT: Picture Book PR: Primary Reader ST: Secondary Title TR: Teacher’s Resource UL: University Level BL: Bilingual Text DVD: DVD Material is also colour coded into three broad groups: Red for literature, stories & drama Yellow for arts & music Black for non-fiction & memoirsA is for Aunty Elaine Russell ABC Books $14.95 PT Aboriginal Affairs 1967-2005 Max Griffiths Rosenberg $29.95 ST TR Aboriginal Australia: Australia Focus Robyn Hodge $29.95 PR Aboriginal Australia: Who Did What When? Barwick & Barwick $29.95 PR TR Aboriginal Australia Folded Map ASP $24.95 PR ST TR Aboriginal Australia Rolled Map ASP $24.95 PR ST TR Aboriginal Australia: An Introductory Reader Bourke et al UQP $24.00 ST TR Aboriginal Australians: Third Edition Richard Broome A&U $37.95 ST TR Aboriginal Heroes of the Resistance Paul Newbury BushBooks $20 ST TR Aboriginal People & Their Plants P Clarke Rosenberg $39.95 TR Aboriginal Sydney: A Guide to Important Places of the Past & Present Melinda Hickson ASP $34.95 ST TR Albert Albert Namatjira Open Books $24.95 PT ST BL Alherramp-areny Angkety Arelh-kenh: Women's Stories from Laramba IAD Press $21.90 ST TR All My Mob Ruby Ginibi Langford UQP $24.95 ST TR Anna the Goanna McDougall/Taylor ASP $19.95 PT PR Around the Kitchen Table Reconciliation Resource Women's Reconciliation Network Bk & DVD $75 ST TR Art, Land, Story Christine Nicholls Working Title Press Art, History, Place Christine Nicholls WTP $ Aukam: The Woman Who Wove by the Light Belinda Kabal Black Ink $15.00 PT Auntie Rita Rita Huggins ASP $22.95 ST TR Australian ABC of Animals Bronwyn Bancroft Little Hare Books $14.95 PT Australia's Frontier Wares 1788-1838 John Connor UNSWP $39.95 ST TR Australia's Indigenous Peoples: Five Volume Set - also available individually Peoples of the East Marji Hill Heinemann $29.95 PR Peoples of the Centre Marji Hill Heinemann $29.95 PR Peoples of the North Marji Hill Heinemann $29.95 PR Peoples of the West Marji Hill Heinemann $29.95 PR Peoples of the South Marji Hill Heinemann $29.95 PR Bajirriga the Turtle Trevor Fourmile Black Ink $15.00 PT Bangu the Flying Fox Jillian Taylor ASP $19.95 PT The Barefoot Kids Steve Hawke FACP $16.95 PR ST Barungin Jack Davis Currency Press $21.95 STBecause a White Man Will Never Do It Kevin Gilbert A&R $22.95 Bilby & the Bushfire Joanne Crawford Magabala $18.95 PT Bip:The Snapping Bungaroo McRobbie/Fielding Magabala $10.95 PT Bittangabee Tribe Stewart et al ASP $19.95 PT Black Diggers Robert A Hall ASP Ebook ST TR Black Mary & Gunjies Julie Janson ASP $18.65 ST Blood on the Wattle Bruce Elder New Holland Publishing $29.95 ST TR Blood, Sweat & Welfare: A History of White Bosses & Aboriginal Pastoral Workers Mary Anne Jebb UWAP $34.95 TR Blue Mountains Dreaming: The Aboriginal heritage: Second edition Stockton & Merriman $60 ST Born a Half-Caste Marnie Kennedy ASP $14.95 ST Bran Nue Dae Jimmy Chi Currency Press $24.95 ST Broken Circles Anna Haebich FACP $35.00 The Burnt Stick Anthony Hill Penguin $14.95 PT Bush Food Jennifer Isaccs Penguin $45.00 TR SR Bush Games & KnuckleBones Doris Kartinyeri Magabala $18.95 PT Bush Secrets Tjalaminu Mia & Jessica Lister FACP $9.95 Bush Toys: Aboriginal Children at Play Claudia Haagen ASP $43.95 TR Carpentaria Alexis Wright Giramondo $26.95 ST TR Caterpillar & Butterfly Ambelin Kwaymullina FACP $26.95 Celebrating Survival Day Trish Albert First Australians Plenty Stories Rigby $13.95 Child’s Dreaming Kevin Gilbert Hyland House $21.95 PT The Circuit Cole/Harrison/Lefever/Raymond/Torres/West Cleared Out: First Contact in the Western Desert Sue Davenport ASP $45 ST TR Close to the Bone Ned Manning Currency Press $21.95 ST Cocky, The Crow & the Hawk Napanangka Matingali Contemporary Aboriginal Art: Revised Edition Sue McCulloch A&U $45.00 ST TR Contemporary Indigenous Plays Vivienne Cleven Currency $32.95 SR Convincing Ground Bruce Pascoe ASP $39.95 TR Corroboree Wallam/Kelly UWAP $24.95 PT Creatures of the Rainforest Brim/Eglitis Magabala $26.95 PT Crossing the Strait Kathryn Wells Continental $25.00 ST TR Crow & the Waterhole Ambelin Kwaymullia FACP $26.95 Curly & the Fent Morgan & Kwaymullina Random House $12.95 Dabu Grows Up Selena Solomon Magabala $14.95 PT Dan’s Grandpa Sally Morgan Penguin $12.95 PT Dead Heart Nicholas Parsons Currency Press $18.95 ST Daughters of the Dreaming Diane Bell Spinifex $34.95 TR Dead Heart Nicholas Parsons Roadshow $21.95 DVD Deadly Sounds, Deadly Places:Contemporary Aboriginal Desert Cowboy Lowe/Pike Magabala $16.45 PT Desert Dog Lowe/Pike Magabala $16.45 PT Dhuuluu-ya: To Talk Straight Anita Heiss ASP $34.95 ST TR Digger J Jones Richard Frankland Scholastic $15.00 PR Dingo Rolf de Heer Madman $32.95 DVD ST Discovering Aboriginal Australia Trish Albert First Australians Plenty Stories Rigby $13.95 Do Not Go Round the Edges Daisy Utemorrah Magabala $16.00 PT Don't Ask for Stories Ute Eickelkamp ASP $39.95 TR Don’t Take Your Love to Town Ruby Ginibi Langford UQP $24.95 ST TR Down the Hole Edna Williams Magabala Books $27.45 PT Elders: Wisdom from Australia’s Indigenous People Peter McConchie CUP $36.95 PR SR TR Enora & the Black Crane Arone Raymond Meeks Magabala PR $22.95 Ernabella Batiks David Kauss NMA $14.95 SR TR Everything Comes from the Land: Poster M K Turner IAD Press $9.95 Festivals Louise Park Scholastic $15 PR Fighting for Rights Trish Albert First Australians Plenty Stories Rigby $13.95 First Australians, The Marji Hills Pearson $11 PR First Australians Rachel Perkins MUP $90 ST TR Fishing in the Torres Strait Beth Hall Scholastic $15 PR Follow the Rabbit-Proof Fence Doris Pilkington UQP $19.95 ST TR From Little Things, Big Things Grow Kelly/Carmondy & the kids from Gurindji Country Affirm Press $19.95 PR The Frontier Conflict: The Australian Experience Bain Attwood NMA $39.95 ST TR Gadi Mirrabooka: Australian Aboriginal Tales from the Dreaming Mcleod et al Greenwood $79.95 Geebungs & Snake Whistles: Koori People & the Plants of Wreck Bay ASP $14.95 Going Bush: Adventures Across Indigenous Australia Freeman/Millman Lonely Planet $34.95 DVD ST Going Bush Wheatley/Searle AU $29.95 PT ST Going for Kalta Yvonne/Brenda Magabala $12.95 PT Gold for Cathy Freeman! Karen Lau Scholastic $15 PR Gong-Wapitja: Women & Art from Yirrkala Gillian Hutcherson ASP $43.95 ST TR The Great Cold Gladys Milroy FACP $9.95 Growing Up Kaytetye Tommy Thompson Magabala $24.95 PR Hard Yards Melissa Lucashenko UQP $23.95 ST Haunted Earth Peter Read UNSWP $39.95 TR Hey Mum, What's a Half-Caste? Lorraine Mc-Gee Sippel Magabala $24.95 ST Home: A Novel Larissa Behrendt UQP $23.95 SR Home to Mother Doris Pilkington Garimara UQP $16.95 How I Go to School Galleguilos/Kelly Scholastic $15 PR I’m the One That Knows this Country Jessie Lennon ASP $26.95 ST In Our Town Jack Davis Currency Press $17.95 ST Indigenous Education & the Adventure of Insight Neil Harrison Post Pressed $49.95 TR Indigenous Kids: Brave & Brilliant - Big Book Oxford $49.95 PR Indigenous Sporting Greats Trish Albert First Australians Plenty Stories Rigby $13.95 Indigenous Studies in Education Phillips/Lampert Pearsons $65.95 TR An Indij Sport Report: The Preston Campbell Edition Indij Readers $13.95 PR An Indij Sport Report: Inside the Sydney Swans with Michael O’Loughlin Hall et al Indij Readers $13.95 PR Introduction to Aboriginal Mathematics John Rudder Restoration House $16 TR PT Jalygurr: Aussie Animal Rhymes Pat Torres Magabala $9.95 PT Jandamarra & the Bunuba Resistance Pedersen/Woorunmurra Magabala $21.95 Jedda Chauvel Screen $39.95 DVD Jindabyne Ray Lawrence Roadshow $39.95 DVD Jirrbal Rainforest Dreamtime Stories Yarrcali Barlow Magabala $24.95 PT Joshua & the Two Crabs Joshua Button Magabala $16.95 PT Kaisiana's Journey to Torres Strait Trish Albert First Australians Plenty Stories Rigby $13.95 Kangaroo & the Porpoise Agnes Lippo Scholastic $14.00 PT Kakadu Calling Jane Christophersen Magabala $12.95 PT Kangkushot: The Life of Nyamal Lawman Read/Coppin Kayang & Me Kim Scott & Hazel Brown FACP $29.95 TR ST Keeping Culture: Aboriginal Tasmania Amanda Reynolds Keeping Language Alive Trish Albert First Australians Plenty Stories Rigby $13.95 Keeping Strong through Art Trish Albert First Australians Plenty Stories Rigby $13.95 Keringke: Contemporary Eastern Arrernte Art IAD Press $32.95 Kun-Man-Gur The Rainbow Serpent Cowan/Bancroft Peribo $12.95 The Lamb Enters the Dreaming Robert Kenny Scribe $39.95 TR Language & Culture in Aboriginal Australia Walsh/Yallop ASP $34.95 ST TR Learning from the Land Yami Lester IAD Press ST Legend of the Seven Sisters May O'Brien ASP $19.95 PT Life in Gadigal Country Anita Heiss Gadigal Press $16.50 ST The Little Platypus & the Fire Spirit Mundara Koorang ASP $19.95 PT The Little Red Yellow Black Book AIATSIS ASP $14.95 PT ST TR The Lizard Gang Kirra Somerville Magabala $19.95 PT Looking for Blackfellas Point Mark McKenna UNSWP $39.95 ST TR Loongie the Greedy Crocodile Lucy & Kiefer Dann Magabala $16.95 PT Love Against the Law Camfoo/Camfoo ASP $26.95 ST Lowitja Lowitja O’Donoghue Working Title Press $12.95 PR Luurnpa, the Magical Kingfisher Napangarti Bai Bai Aboriginal People, Then & NowBosses Ourselves: The story of Aboriginal self-government Barlow & Hill $29.95 My Mob: The story of Aboriginal Family Life Barlow & Hill $29.95 Sharing Our Cultures Barlow & Hill $29.95 | Main Book List TitlesThe Magic Boomerang Lessac/Greenwood Artbeat $14.95 PT Magic Fire at Warlukurlangu: A Dreaming Narrative Dolly Nampijinpa Working Title Press $11.95 PT Malu-Kangaroo: How the First Children Learnt to Surf Mandawuy Yunupingu Beth Hall Scholastic $15 PR Maralinga: The Anangu Story Yalata & the Oak Community $35 The Mark of the Wagarl Lorna Little Magabala $22.95 PT Me & My Mum Anita Heiss Indij Readers $9.95 PR
Message Stick: Contemporary Aboriginal Writing Kerry Reed-Gilbert Jukurrpa $16.45 ST TR Mingkiri Lynn Baker IAD Press $16.45 PR Mixed Relations Regina Ganter UWAP $54.95 TR Moonglue Daisy Utemorrah Magabala $16.45 PT Ms Johnstone to the Rescue King/Rowan Indij Readers $12.95 PR Mum Shirl Karen Lau Scholastic $15 PR Mutton Fish: The Survivng Culture of Abalone on the South Coast Cruse et al ASP $24.95 ST TR My Community is La Perouse Galleguilloos/Kelly Scholastic $15 PR My Girragundji McDonald & Pryor A&U 14.95 My Home in Kakadu Jane Christophersen Magabala $14.95 PT My Place Sally Morgan FACP $24.95 ST TR Nan & Dad & Me at the Zoo Dylan Russell Indij Readers $12.95 PR Nana’s Land Sarago-Kendrick Magabala $18.95 PT Nardika Learns to Make a Spear Chris Fry Magabala $18.65 PT Nyuntu Ninti: What You Should Know Bob Randall ABC PT ST $27.95 The Old Frangipani Tree at Flying Fish Point Trina Saffioti Magabala $24.95 PT Old Man Tucker Debbie Austin $19.95 PT Other Side of the Frontier Henry Reynolds UNSWP $29.95 ST TR Our Country Fiona Doyle UQP $16.85 PR Our Rooster, Jack Dodd-Farrawell Indij Readers $12.95 PR Out of the Desert: Stories from the Walmajarri Exodus Magabala $39.95 The Outback Annaliese Porter Magabala $22.95 PT Paint Me Black Claire Henty-Gebert ASP $24.95 ST Paint-Up Amanda Ahern UQP $35.00 PR ST Painting the Land Story Luke Taylor National Museum $55.00 PR TR Pangkarlangu & The Lost Child Molly Napurrurla Scholastic $11.95 PT Papunya School Book of Country & History Papunya School A&U $16.95 PT TR Patterns of Australia Bronwyn Bancroft Little Hare Books $15.00 PT Pigs & Honey Jeanie Adams Omnibus $11.00 PT Planning for Country Fiona Walsh IAD $45 ST TR Portraits from a Land without People: A Pictorial Anthology of Indigenous Australia 1847-2008 John Ogden $120 ST Possum & Wattle: Big Book of Australian Words Bronwyn Bancroft Little Hare $25 PT Post Me to the Prime Minister Romaine Moreton Magabala $29.95 ST Putting in the Colour Mary-Lou Nugent IAD press $32.90 ST Rabbit-Proof Fence: Screenplay C Olsen Currency Press $21.95 ST Rabbit-Proof Fence Phillip Noyce Magna $24.95 DVD Raps for Big Fullas Monkey Mark Indij Readers $12.95 PR Raps for Little Fullas Monkey Mark Indij Readers $9.95 PR Reconciliation Sandra Cahir CUP $11.50 PR Remembering Aboriginal Heroes Ramsland/Mooney Brolga $29.95 ST TR Reports from a Wild Country Deborah Bird Rose UNSWP $39.95 TR Repossession of Our Spirit: Traditional Owners of Northern Sydney Dennis Foley $33 ST TR Return to the Brink Rodney Hall Currency Press $16.45 ST River Girl: Growing Up Around the River Murray Glenda Andrew Black Ink $18.00 ST Rob Riley: An Aboriginal Leader's Quest for Justice Quentin Beresford ASP $39.95 ST TR Sacred Waters: Story of the Blue Mountains’ Gully Traditional Owners Diane Johnston Halstead $60.00 ST TR Settling with Indigenous People Langton et al Federation Press $66 ST TR The Shack That Dad Built Elaine Russell Little Hare Books $14.95 PT Shadow Lines Stephen Kinnane FACP $29.95 ST Skins: Contemporary Indigenous Writing Akiwenzie-Damm IAD Press $27.40 ST Smarty Pants: The Badudu Stories May O’Brien FACP $11.95 PT Smoke Encrypted Whispers Sam Wagan Watson UQP $22.95 ST Social Archaeology of Australian Indigenous Societies David/Barker/McNiven ASP $39.95 ST TR Songlines: Emerging Queensland Indigenous Artists Nain et al Keeaira Press $20.00 ST TR Songlines & Stone Axes: Transport, Travel & Trade in Australia John Nicolson A&U $29.95 PR SR Sovereign Subjects Aileen Moreton-Robinson A&U $35 TR Special Objects Trish Albert First Australians Plenty Stories Rigby $13.95 The Spotted Cat Molly Napururia Working Title Press $11.95 PT Steam Pigs Melissa Lucashenko UQP $23.95 ST Stolen Jane Harrison Currency Press $21.95 ST Stories of the Stolen Generations Marji Hill Pearsons $11 PT A Story to Tell Laurel Nannup UWAP $24.95 PT ST Stradbroke Dreamtime Oodgeroo Nunukul Little Hare Books $29.95 PT Sun Mother Wakes the World Wolkstein/Bancroft Harper $34.95 PT Survival: A History of Aboriginal Life in NSW Nigel Parbury BofS $30.00 ST TR Swallow the Air Tara June Winch UQP $28.00 ST Sweet Guy Jared Thomas IAD Press $19.95 ST Teacher’s Guide: Indij Reader Series 2 Bunworth et al Take Power Like this Old Man Here Alexis Wright IAD $27.45 ST TR Teaching Aboriginal Studies Rhonda Craven A&U $49.95 TR Teaching & Learning in Indigenous Education Neil Harrison OUP $57 TR Tell Me Why Jackson/Templeton Magabala $16.95 PT Telling the Truth about Aboriginal History Bain Attwood A&U $35 ST TR Ten Canoes Rolf de Heer Madman $37.95 DVD They Took the Children David Hollinsworth WTP $14.95 PT ST Tiwi Footy: Yiloga Andrew McMillan F11 Productions $45 PT Tjarany Roughtail & Other Kukatja Stories Gracie Green Too Big for Your Boots: The Badudu Stories May O’Brien Tracey Moffat: Between Dreams & Reality Tracey Moffat The Tracker Rolf De Heer Roadshow $24.95 DVD Tracker Tjugingji Bob Randall IAD Press PT Travelling Yamani Trish Albert First Australians: Plenty Stories Pearson Rigby $13.95 PT The Two-Hearted Numbat Ambelin & Ezekiel Kwaymullina FACP $26.95 Two Hands Together Diana Kidd Penguin $17.95 The Two Wallabies Henry Jakamarra Working Title Press Untreated: Poems by Black Writers Josie Douglas IAD Up the Road John Harding Currency Press $18.95 ST Urgent Leanne Rowe Random House $16.95 ST Us Mob Narogin Mudrooroo Harper Collins $22.95 ST Us Mob Walawurru Wilyuka/Spillman Magabala $14.95 Very Big Journey: My Life as I Remember It Hilda Jarman Wandihnu & the Old Dugong Elizabeth & Wandihnu Wymarra Magabala Books $18.95 PT Watershed Fabi Bayet-Charlton IAD Press $22.95 ST We of the Never-Never Igor Auzins $21.95 DVD ST What is Bush Food? Beth Hall Scholastic $15 PR White Christ, Black Cross Noel Loos ASP $39.95 TR Whitening Race: Essays in Social & Cultural History Aileen Moreton-Robinson ASP $34.95 TR Who's that Jumbun in the Log? McRobbie & Fielding Magabala $22.95 Why Warriors Lie Down & Die RichardTrudgen Aboriginal Productions $29.95 TR UL Why Weren't We Told? Henry Reynolds Penguin $26.95 ST TR Wild Cat Falling Mudrooroo HarperCollins $22.95 ST Winin: Why the Emu Cannot Fly Charles/Riches Magabala $8.95 PT Wiradjuri Places: The Murrumbidgee River Peter Kabaila Women’s Stories from Laramba IAD Press $21.95 PT Wrapped in a Possum Skin Amanda Reynolds NMA Writing Never Arrives Naked Penny Van Toorn ASP $39.95 ST TR Wunambi The Water Snake May O'Brien ASP $19.95 Yanagai! Yanagai! Andrea James Currency Press $18.95 Yearning to Go Home Paul Ishiguchi $24.95 Yirra & Her Deadly Dog, Demon Anita Heiss & La Perouse Yolngu Mali: Aboriginal Spirit Milkayngi/Binmila Penguin $14.95 PR Yorro Yorro Mowaljarlai/Malnic Magabala $32.95 ST TR You Narelle Wickham Ginniderra Press $18.00 ST Aunty Wendy's MobAunty Wendy's Mob honours Aboriginal & Torres Strait Islander children, celebrates culture and educates all children to appreciate and explore Aboriginal & Torres Strait Islander cultures from a very young age. Eight books plus two CDs are now available. Kangaroo Rock Taleena Simon & Wendy Notley Kami's Country Wendy Notley Special Land Wendy Notley Kids on the Block Wendy Notley Dean's Footy Song Wendy Notley The Hairy One Wendy Notley Insects Wendy Notley Tucker Wendy Notley Growin' Up Strong - CD Happy to be Me - CD Supporting teachers resource books are available from: First Australians: Plenty StoriesA new series focusing on Indigenous issues for primary level use has been published over the last six months. Written by Trish Albert from the Education Unit at the National Museum of Australia, they have a strong focus on contemporary Indigenous lives and practices. Celebrating Survival Day $13.95 Discovering Aboriginal Australia $13.95 Fighting for Rights $13.95 Indigenous Sporting Greats $13.95 Kaisiana's Journey to Torres Strait $13.95 Keeping Language Alive $13.95 Keeping Strong through Art $13.95 Special Objects $13.95 The Travelling Yamani: A Story from the Ngadjon-Jii People $13.95 It's More than Art $10.50 Life at Mulga Bore $10.45 Desert Art $10.45 Remembering Coniston $10.45 Stolen Cultural Knowledge $10.50 Welcome to Mer Island $10.50 First Australians: Plenty Stories Middle Primary Teachers Resource Book $44.95 First Australians: Plenty Stories: Middle Primary Poster Pack $88.95 |