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Our Country
Where History Happened
By: Mark Greenwood, Frané Lessac (Illustrator)
Hardcover | 29 August 2023
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The second title in the OUR COUNTRY series, celebrating and contextualising the richness of Australia's history, and where it happened.
In every corner of Australia, history happened. The pages of this book are a journey through tens of thousands of years. Our history is recorded in ancient rock art, in the flag flown at the Eureka Stockade, by Burke and Wills' tree. All around our coastline history unfolded in shipwrecks and ship arrivals. Sometimes tragic, often regrettable, always formative, history is commemorated from Tasmania and throughout the mainland at the sites of prisons and massacres. From the birthplace of a new federated nation at the beginning of the twentieth century in Sydney's Centennial Park to Eddie Mabo's struggle for acknowledgement of land rights in the 1990s, history happened all around Our Country.
Mark Greenwood is a history hunter. His award-winning books include The Legend of Lasseter's Reef and The Legend of Moondyne Joe, both winners of the West Australian Premier's Book Award. Mark often teams with his wife, illustrator Frane Lessac, to produce titles such as Midnight - the story of a light horse, Ned Kelly & The Green Sash and Simpson and His Donkey, a CBCA Honour Book and a USBBY Outstanding International Book. Jandamarra, illustrated by Terry Denton, was shortlisted for the CBCA Eve Pownall Award, the NSW Premier's Literary Awards Patricia Wrightson Prize for Children's Literature and the West Australian Young Readers' Book Awards. The Happiness Box, illustrated by Andrew McLean, was a 2019 CBCA Honour book.
About the Illustrator
Frane Lessac is an author and illustrator of international renown, having nearly fifty children's books published throughout the world. She was born in the USA and lived on the Caribbean island of Montserrat, as well as in London, before moving to Australia. Frane loves to travel and create books based on her worldwide journeys. She has contributed her distinctive paintings to many critically acclaimed children's picture books including, The Legend of Moondyne Joe which won the West Australian Premier's Children's Book Award, and Simpson and His Donkey, a CBCA Honour Book that was also selected as a USBBY Outstanding International Book. In 2019, We Are Grateful: Otsaliheliga, written by Traci Sorell, was awarded the Robert F. Sibert Honor Book Honor medal, the Orbis Pictus Honor Book medal and the Boston Globe Horn Book Honor medal.
ISBN: 9781760653576
ISBN-10: 1760653578
Series: Our Country
Published: 29th August 2023
Format: Hardcover
Language: English
Audience: Children
For Ages: 7 - 13 years old
Publisher: Walker Books Australia
Country of Publication: AU
Dimensions (cm): 26.5 x 25 x 1
Weight (kg): 0.4
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