Young Dark Emu

SHORTLISTED – 2020 CBCA Book of the Year Awards: Eve Pownall Award

SHORTLISTED – 2020 Patricia Wrightson Prize for Children’s Literature in the NSW Premier’s Literary Awards

SHORTLISTED –  2020 Indie Book Awards: Children’s

LONGLISTED – 2020 ABIA Book of the Year for Younger Children (ages 7 – 12)

Bruce Pascoe has collected a swathe of literary awards for Dark Emu and now he has brought together the research and compelling first person accounts in a book for younger readers. Using the accounts of early European explorers, colonists and farmers, Bruce Pascoe compellingly argues for a reconsideration of the hunter-gatherer label for pre-colonial Aboriginal Australians. He allows the reader to see Australia as it was before Europeans arrived – a land of cultivated farming areas, productive fisheries, permanent homes, and an understanding of the environment and its natural resources that supported thriving villages across the continent. Young Dark Emu – A Truer History asks young readers to consider a different version of Australia’s history pre-European colonisation.