Weaving Country
$25.63
- Hardcover
32 pages
- Release Date
2 July 2025
Summary
Stunning picture book celebrating working together, sharing important lessons from Country, and featuring First Nations language
‘Around and around they go,’ says Walert looking at Gugung’s hands turning the wheel of woven reeds, growing slowly and surely, bigger and bigger.
Walert’s grandmother, Gugung, is collecting reeds (djirra) to weave a basket (binak) and finally, Walert is big enough to take part and learn this important cultural practice. But when a p…
Book Details
| ISBN-13: | 9781760657628 |
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| ISBN-10: | 176065762X |
| Author: | Aunty Kim Wandin, Christine Joy, Ashleigh Pugh |
| Publisher: | Walker Books Australia |
| Imprint: | Walker Books Australia |
| Format: | Hardcover |
| Number of Pages: | 32 |
| Release Date: | 2 July 2025 |
| Weight: | 468g |
| Dimensions: | 15mm x 301mm x 366mm |
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Critics Review
…this is both a beautiful picture book and an important resource to educate young and old on Wurrundjeri culture and language. – Angela Crocombe * Readings *
From its exquisitely embossed front cover, to the browns and greens of the reeds on the end papers, through all of the beautifully detailed illustrations to the shining little blue wren in mid-flight on the back cover, the illustrations in Weaving Country make this a very beautiful picture book. – Russ Merrin * Magpie Magazine *
About The Author
Aunty Kim Wandin
Chris Joy is a writer, artist, and curator who is a full-time creator of public art. She lives and works in the Yarra Valley, Victoria. Chris has developed many children’s literature programs, events, and exhibitions in cultural organizations and was on the design team for the award-winning Ian Potter Foundation Children’s Garden at the Royal Botanic Gardens, Melbourne.
Aunty Kim Wandin is a master weaver and Wurundjeri Woi-wurrung Elder. She lives in Healesville. Her traditional basket-making skills have been handed down to her by direct lineage. Aunty Kim’s work represents a significant cultural position within the southeast of Victoria as part of an important group of arts practitioners.
Illustrator Ashleigh Pugh is a descendant of Whadjuk Ballardong who has developed her own distinctive style of blending traditional wood-burning techniques with painting. In 2020, Ashleigh won Best Landscape for the Linden Art Gallery Postcard Prize.
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