Eve Pownall Award for Information Books

Pre-Book Week Extravaganza 2014

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Holroyd City Council Library ServiceChildren’s & Young Adults’ Team

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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.1961Image – Newcastle Morning Herald collection, Newcastle Region Library

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

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

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.

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

Jeremy by Christopher Faille. Illustrated by Danny Snell

(Working Title Press)

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

Kookaburra sits in the old gum treeMerry merry king of the bush is heLaugh, kookaburra, laugh, kookaburraGay your life must be

Kookaburra sits in the old gum treeEating all the gum drops he can seeStop, kookaburra, stop kookaburraLeave some there for me

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

Ice, Wind, RockPeter Gouldthrope (Hachette Australia)

Ice, Wind, RockPeter 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

Yoko’s Diary: The life of a young girl in Hiroshima during WWII

Edited by Paul Ham (HarperCollins Publishers)

• 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)

Yoko’s Diary: The life of a young girl in Hiroshima during WWII

Edited by Paul Ham (HarperCollins Publishers)

Date _________ Weather: __________________

School________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________

Home________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________

Woke up: __________________Went to bed : _______________Study: _____________________Chores: _______________________________________________

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Welcome to My CountryBurarrwnaga, Laklak and Family (Allen & Unwin)

• 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 CountryBurarrwnaga, Laklak and Family (Allen & Unwin)

Meet Captain CookRae Murdie. Illustrated by Christ Nixon (Random House)

• 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 CookRae Murdie. Illustrated by Christ Nixon (Random House)