Weaving Country
$20.25
- Hardcover
32 pages
- Release Date
2 July 2025
Summary
Weaving Country: A Story of Connection and Culture
Stunning picture book celebrating working together, sharing important lessons from Country, and featuring First Nations language
‘Around and around they go,’ says Walert looking at Gugung’s hands turning the wheel of woven reeds, growing slowly and surely, bigger and bigger.
Walert’s grandmother, Gugung, is collecting reeds (djirra) to weave a basket (binak) and finally, Walert is big enough…
Book Details
| ISBN-13: | 9781760657628 |
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| ISBN-10: | 176065762X |
| Author: | Aunty Kim Wandin, Christine Joy, Ashleigh Pugh |
| Publisher: | Walker Books Australia |
| Imprint: | Walker Books Australia |
| Format: | Hardcover |
| Number of Pages: | 32 |
| Release Date: | 2 July 2025 |
| Weight: | 468g |
| Dimensions: | 15mm x 301mm x 366mm |
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About The Author
Aunty Kim Wandin
Aunty Kim Wandin is a masterweaver and Wurundjeri Woi-wurrung Elder. She lives in Healesville. Her traditional basket making has been handed down to her by direct lineage. Aunty Kim’s work represents a significant cultural position within the south east of Victoria as part of an important group of arts practitioners.
Chris Joy is a writer, artist and curator who is a full time creator of public art. She lives and works in the Yarra Valley, Victoria. Chris has developed many children’s literature programs, events and exhibitions in cultural organisations and was on the design team for the award-winning Ian Potter Foundation Children’s Garden at the Royal Botanic Gardens, Melbourne.
Illustrator Ashleigh Pugh is a descendant of Whadjuk ballardong, who has developed her own distinctive style of blending traditional wood burning technique with painting. In 2020, Ashleigh won Best Landscape for the Linden Art Gallery Postcard Prize.
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