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Author McQuire, Amy, author

Title Day break / Amy McQuire ; with [illustrations by] Matt Chun
Published Hardie Grant Books-HEDS, 2021
Richmond, Vic. : Little Hare, 2021

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Description 1 volume (unpaged) : colour illustrations ; 24 x 29 cm
Summary Day Break is the story of a family making their way back to Country on January 26. We see the strength they draw from being together, and from sharing stories as they move through a shifting landscape. The story refocuses the narratives around 'Australia Day' on Indigenous survival and resistance, and in doing so honours the past while looking to the future. Confronting yet truthful, painful yet full of hope, Day Break is a crucial story that will open up a conversation on truth-telling for the next generation
Notes "January 26. The day we remember."--Cover
Audience Preschool
Subject Aboriginal Australians, Treatment of -- Juvenile fiction
Families, Aboriginal Australian -- Juvenile fiction
Aboriginal Australians -- Land tenure -- Juvenile fiction
Australian fiction
Picture books
Aboriginal Australians -- Juvenile fiction
Australia Day -- Juvenile fiction
Families -- Pictorial works -- Juvenile fiction
Aboriginal Australians -- Pictorial works -- Juvenile fiction
Survival -- Australia -- Pictorial works -- Juvenile fiction
Children's stories -- Pictorial works
SUBJECT Australia -- Race relations -- Juvenile fiction
Australia -- Anniversaries, etc -- Pictorial works -- Juvenile fiction
Australia -- Race relations -- Pictorial works -- Juvenile fiction
Genre/Form Juvenile works.
Picture books.
Fiction.
Picture books.
Author Chun, Matt, illustrator
ISBN 9781760508159
1760508152