Young Dark Emu Book
by Bruce Pascoe
*Winner of the CBCA 2020 Eve Pownall Award for Information Books*
*Winner of the Booksellers' Choice 2020 Children's Book of the Year Award*
*Shortlisted for the 2020 NSW Premier's Literary Awards Patricia Wrightson Prize for Children's Literature*
*Shortlisted for the ABIA Book of the Year for Younger Children (ages 7-12)*
*Shortlisted for the Indie Book Awards 2020: Children's*
Age range 10+.
The highly-anticipated junior version of Bruce Pascoe's multi award-winning book.
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Bruce Pascoe has collected a swathe of literary awards for Dark Emu and now he has brought together the research and compelling first person accounts in a book for younger readers.
Using the accounts of early European explorers, colonists and farmers, Bruce Pascoe compellingly argues for a reconsideration of the hunter-gatherer label for pre-colonial Aboriginal Australians. He allows the reader to see Australia as it was before Europeans arrived — a land of cultivated farming areas, productive fisheries, permanent homes, and an understanding of the environment and its natural resources that supported thriving villages across the continent. Young Dark Emu — A Truer History asks young readers to consider a different version of Australia's history pre-European colonisation.