Stolen Generations
Audrey's Big Secret
A chapter book of a story about Audrey's outback adventure when she finds a young Aboriginal girl her own aged named Janet. Janet had run away from a mission and together they think of a way to keep Janet from being taken again.
Idjhil
Idjhil is about a nine year old boy called Idjhil who lives in Western Australia. His father and grandfather taught him traditional hunting skills, he savoured the joys and challenges of living a Nyungar way of life in the bush that was his home. But his life changed when he was taken from his family in accordance with the official government policy of the time.
Orphaned by the Colour of My Skin: A Stolen Generation Story
An autobiography account of Indigenous woman and her search for her family, community and her identity.
Pilawuk: When I was young
A story about the life of a young Aboriginal girl who was part of the stolen generation.
Remembered By Heart
From life in the desert to growing up on a mission, enduring devastating policies in the 1930s to bravely seizing new opportunities in the 1960s, these are fifteen true stories reflecting a diverse range of Aboriginal Australian experiences.
Requiem for a beast : a work for image, word and music
We are largely defined by how we face our fears. A boy goes on a melancholy, often terrifying but ultimately life-affirming journey of self-discovery as a stockman in far North Queensland. In an exquisitely illustrated collage of memory and dreamscape, nightmare and cold reality, Matt Ottley fuses the moral choices of the individual with the demands of society. In this stirring adventure, the boy confronts a huge, rogue Brahmin bull and learns he must acknowledge the errors of the past before he can fully embrace the future. The graphic novel includes a CD and music specially composed for it by the author/illustrator.
Stolen Girl
When a young girl is taken from all that she knows and loves, she dreams of how she will return to the life she had to leave behind. The book follows one girl who was taken from her home and placed in a children's home. Australian Government policy at the time removed one hundred thousand Aboriginal children who are known as the Stolen Generations.
Includes background information about the Stolen Generations.
Stories for Simon
When Simon unwraps a beautiful boomerang, he finds out about an Australian Prime Minister's national apology to the Stolen Generations. Through a new friendship and a magnificent collection of stories, Simon learns about the Stolen Generation, and gains a deep appreciation of the past and a positive vision for the future.
The burnt stick
All through his childhood John remembered the life of the camp at Dryborough Station and the good trick his mother, Liyan, played with a stick burnt in the fire when the Big Man came looking for John. She rubbed the black charcoal into his skin to make John seem darker than he really was – too dark to be taken away.
Took the children away
From the lyrics of this iconic song a very special book has been created. Featuring the heart wrenching lyrics of Archie Roach and the classic artwork of his late wife Ruby Hunter, this book describes the anguish suffered by the Stolen Generation.
Who am I? : the diary of Mary Talence, Sydney, 1937
Mary is ten when she begins to write in her diary. She documents her life as an Aboriginal child who was taken from her natural parents and raised by a non-Aboriginal foster family. Mary doesn't fit in and starts to question why