Title Waves : for those who came across the sea / Donna Rawlins ; Heather Potter ; Mark Jackson

Published Newtown, NSW : Black Dog Books, an imprint of Walker Books Australia Pty Ltd, 2018 ©2018

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Location	Call no.	Vol.	Availability
W'PONDS CRC	PICTURE BOOK Raw/Wav		AVAILABLE
MELB CRC	JUNIOR FICTION Raw/Wav		AVAILABLE

Description 33 pages : colour illustrations ; 27 cm regular print Summary Every journey is perilous, every situation heartbreaking. Every refugee is a person forced by famine or war or fear to leave their home, their families, their friends and all they know. Children have travelled on the waves of migration to the shores of Australia for tens of thousands of years. This book tells some of their stories.Waves is a book about the waves of migration to the shores of Australia Notes "If you are not an indigenous Australian, your family have, at some stage, come to Australia from across the waves. The characters in this book are fictitious, but the types of journeys they take in these stories were very real"--[page 32] Audience For children Notes Shortlisted by the Children's Book Council of Australia (CBCA) for the "Eve Pownall Award", 2019 Subject Boat people -- Juvenile fiction. Boat people -- Juvenile literature. Emigration and immigration -- Juvenile fiction. Emigration and immigration -- Juvenile literature. Political refugees -- Juvenile fiction. Political refugees -- Juvenile literature. Refugees -- Juvenile fiction. Refugees -- Juvenile literature. Genre/Form Fiction. Picture books. Author Jackson, Mark, illustrator Potter, Heather, illustrator ISBN 9781925381641

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