1. Eve Pownall Award for
Information Books
Pre-Book Week Extravaganza
2014
Please note: the covers and artwork from the short listed books are not included in this slideshare version of
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2. Holroyd City Council Library Service
Children’s & Young Adults’ Team
Renea
Lisa Kirsty
Monica

3. Eve Pownall Award for
Information Books
Award to outstanding books which
have the prime intent to document
factual material with consideration
given to imaginative presentation,
interpretation and variation of
style.
Eve Pownall c.1961
Image – Newcastle Morning Herald
collection, Newcastle Region Library

4. Jandamarra
by Mark Greenwood. Ill. Terry Dennton ( Allen & Unwin)

5. Jandamarra
by Mark Greenwood. Ill. Terry Denton (Allen & Unwin)
• Themes include bravery, justice, cultural identity, loyalty, heroes, Indigenous
history and culture, morals, land ownership
• Suitable for Upper-Primary / Secondary
• Teachers notes (Allen & Unwin)
http://www.allenandunwin.com/_
uploads/BookPdf/TeachersNotes/9781742375700.pdf
• Research other indigenous heroes/figures (Pemulwuy)
http://www.mabonativetitle.com/info/aboriginalResistanceHeroes.htm

6. Jandamarra
by Mark Greenwood.
Ill. Terry Denton (Allen
& Unwin)
‘Scorching sun on iron
blistered the prisoners’
flesh during the long march
to Derby Jail.’ (Page 10)
Look at treatment of
Indigenous people in
Australia and across the
world – over time.

7. Jandamarra
by Mark Greenwood. Ill. Terry Denton (Allen & Unwin)
• Other books / documentaries on Jandamarra
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cXejE5DXR9E
• Use photos of landscape to show the ruggedness, colours etc.
• Page 20 – ‘Free us’ he whispered, ‘so we can fight for our country’…. ‘’What
should I do’ he wondered. Stay loyal to my friend Richardson? Or free my
people from their chains?’
- Parallel to ‘Welcome to my country’ and the significance of the land to
indigenous people
- Discussion about cultural identity – European / Indigenous

8. Jeremy
by Christopher Faille. Illustrated by Danny Snell
(Working Title Press)

9. Jeremy
by Christopher Faille. Illustrated by Danny Snell
(Working Title Press)
• Facts about kookaburras printed in the front and the back of the book
• Teachers notes – http://www.workingtitlepress.com.au/teachers_notes.html
• Connection to indigenious story – How the kookaburra got his laugh
• Wildlife rescue - Teacher’s notes / Kids’ page http://www.wires.org.au/
• Study other Australian birds / animals
• Laughing contest – longest, funniest, most like a kookaburra
• Guess the bird noise game

10. Kookaburra sits in the old gum tree
Merry merry king of the bush is he
Laugh, kookaburra, laugh, kookaburra
Gay your life must be
Kookaburra sits in the old gum tree
Eating all the gum drops he can see
Stop, kookaburra, stop kookaburra
Leave some there for me

11. Jeremy
by Christopher Faille. Illustrated by Danny Snell
(Working Title Press)
• Dress up as a kookaburra
• Use kookaburra puppets for storytelling
• Use dollhouse and furniture as a set
• Kookaburra masks
• Rhyme – Two little kookaburras sitting on a hill
One named Jack, the other named Jill
Fly away Jack, fly away Jill
Come back Jack, come back Jill

12. Ice, Wind, Rock
Peter Gouldthrope (Hachette Australia)

13. Ice, Wind, Rock
Peter Gouldthrope (Hachette Australia)
• Suitable for Stage 3 students studying ‘Current Issues: Antartica’ HSIE unit
• Teacher’s Guide – http://www.hachettechildrens.com.au/9780734411556/
• Live webcams – http://www.antartica.gov.au
• Explorers – link to Captain Cook and others – Where? Who? Date? Interesting Fact.
• Mawson’ Hut – look at heritage preservation
• Environment in Antartica – animals, landscape, weather
• Create a newspaper article describing Mawson’s trip
• Dressing Up Race – snow gear
• Cardboard cut-out fun

14. Yoko’s Diary: The life of a young girl in Hiroshima
during WWII
Edited by Paul Ham (HarperCollins Publishers)

15. • Themes – war, peace, Japanese culture
• Documentary – ‘Girls in Summer dresses’ or similar
• Link – ‘Sadako and the thousand paper cranes’ – make paper cranes
The Diary of Anne Frank
• Peace Park – look at ‘Peace’ as a theme, Kids Peace Station on web
http://www.pcf.city.hiroshima.jp/index_e2.html
• Photo of Yoko was in Grandparents house – never talked about. Look at a portrait/photo – who
are they / what is their story.
• Start a class diary / diary entry for one day (same format)
Yoko’s Diary: The life of a young girl in
Hiroshima during WWII
Paul Ham ed. (HarperCollins Publishers)

16. Yoko’s Diary: The life of a young girl in
Hiroshima during WWII
Edited by Paul Ham (HarperCollins
Publishers)
Date _________ Weather: __________________
School
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Home
_____________________________________________________
_____________________________________________________
_____________________________________________________
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Woke up: __________________
Went to bed : _______________
Study: _____________________
Chores: _______________________________________________
errand

17. Welcome to My Country
Burarrwnaga, Laklak and Family (Allen & Unwin)

18. • Teachers notes (Allen & Unwin) – very comprehensive
• Glossary of Yolnu words, map, Gurrutu (kinship) system, seasons (6 seasons)
• At the end of each chapter, Laklak (an elder) shares her history – missionary school – not being
allowed to speak Yolnu, mining and land rights, bi-lingual teaching, Macassan family from
Indonesia, current day – Bawaka Cultural Enterprises http://www.bawaka.com.au/
• Written in first person – like a storyteller. Writing exercise – write in the same style.
• Matching word game – indigenous word / picture
• Seasons calendar – fill in the activity for each time of year / picture
• Indigenous stories – pages 12, 38, 42, 67, 95, 110, 115, 158, 181
Welcome to My Country
Burarrwnaga, Laklak and Family (Allen & Unwin)

19. Meet Captain Cook
Rae Murdie. Illustrated by Christ Nixon (Random House)

20. • Part of a series about famous historical figures in Australia (Mary MacKillop, Ned Kelly, Douglas
Mawson)
• Suitable for Stage 2 students - long picture book. Ties into HSIE syllabus theme ‘British
Colonisation of Australia’
• Captain Cook hat /sailor suit - big waves
• Sing sea shanties &/or ‘A Sailor went to sea, sea, sea’
• Reader’s theatre
Meet Captain Cook
Rae Murdie. Illustrated by Christ Nixon (Random House)