Creative non-fiction which demonstrates the importance of the relationship between history and literature, especially for enabling children to appropriately engage with history.
Anna had a powerful bond with her great grandmother. And when she passed away she left Anna something very special. It would take her back to old Naples, to plagues, the Fontanelle cemetery and to the cult of the dead.
Yarri and Jackey Jackey sat in the hollowed-out trunk of a huge, old gum tree on the top of Mount Parnassus. They looked down to Gundagai through the heavy rain. The river had swollen and the town was in trouble. But what could they do?
Sometimes things just happen. And when a number of things just happen around the same time in the same place there can be unexpected outcomes. This book is about Australia in the 1870s. It involves
a disastrous shipwreck, a young Irish woman named Eva Carmichael, a sheep and cattle farm, a rabbit plague and selectors — people who were allowed to ......
Coming home from a friend’s house one Sunday afternoon, Thomas came across a street full of rubbish. Piles of it in front of peoples’ homes. It was a council clean up. Thomas peered into the heaps of stuff … and then something caught his eye on one of the untidy piles: a small, brown album full of old photos.
The 20s and 30s were the heyday of imagination in labelling and branding for Australian manufacturers. Shut out of European markets, flour exporters courted Asia with fun brands and exciting pictorial labels. BRANDED showcases flourbags illustrated from Asian, Western and Australian nature.
This handsome illustrated hardback traces the story of flour milling from Aboriginal mills before White settlement, through the treadmills and windmills of convict times up to the days when impressive mechanised mills graced most important towns.
Aylward and Ashton say Australia has 10 great wineries—“beacons in a bleak landscape”. They wanted to write “Twelve Apostles”, but only ten came up to standard.
Oblivious to the “wine glut”, these ten battle to keep pace with demand. Each wine tells a story, creates memorable connections between producer and consumers. Worldwide, they’re ranked ......
Reports through articles, interviews and reviews from the front lines of the history wars that currently and controversially rage over selective ways of remembering our past. Graeme Davison examines the embattled position of the National Museum; Christine Olsen explains her account of the Stolen Generation; and more.
