Silly Birds by Gregg Dreise

Silly Birds by Gregg DreiseWinner of the Speech Pathology Australia Indigenous Book of the Year Award for 2015 Age range 3 to 9 In this humble, charming and humorous morality tale, Maliyan is a proud eagle who always looks, listens and sees things from a long way away. One day he meets the turkey Wagun, who is a silly bird, and together these two new friends begin to do silly bird things. The Elders and Maliyan's parents become very disappointed and soon the local billabong

they are found throughout the earth

Sophisticated astronomical expertise embedded within the Dreamtime and Songlines is interwoven into a deep understanding of changes on the land

where anything can be waiting at the end of a long and dusty outback road: a major road accident

a bikie gang is gearing up for a large consignment from South America

from growing up as dark-skinned girls in 1970s Doncaster to confronting their personal demons and stepping into the spotlight as their unabashed selves

and essential

Twelve years ago

geography and circumstance

insights and handy talking points for shared reading

and expanded suburban maps

Or a baby platypus

helpfulness and feelings of aliveness