Click on the book cover image below to read a sample chapter from Ingrid Laguna's 'Songbird'
The Arrival is a migrant story told as a series of wordless images. A man leaves his wife and child in an impoverished town, seeking better prospects in an unknown country on the other side of a vast ocean. He eventually finds himself in a bewildering city of foreign customs, peculiar animals, curious floating objects and indecipherable languages. With nothing more than a suitcase and a handful of currency, the immigrant must find a place to live, food to eat and some kind of gainful employment. He is helped along the way by sympathetic strangers, each carrying their own unspoken history: stories of struggle and survival in a world of incomprehensible violence, upheaval and hope.
Click on the Image below to visit Shaun Tan's Website and view some of the images from the book.
Click on the book image below to listen to, 'The Treasure Box', by Margaret Wild & Freya Blackwood.
Click on the image below to visit Deborah Abela's website. You can examine the fascinating background to her novel, 'Teresa A New Australian'.
Click on the image below to visit the 'Our Australian Girls', website. Select 'characters', to read about, Grace, Letty, Poppy, Rose and more.
Click on the book cover image below and you will be able to listen to an extract from Shirley Marr's book, 'A GlassHouse of Stars'.
Click on the image below to explore the Immigration Museum's website to read immigrant stories.
Click on the book cover image below to visit Danielle Bink's website and read a blurb about her book, 'The Year the Maps Changed'.
Click on the book cover image below to listen to, 'Grandma's Treasured Shoes' by Coral Vass. The story is about a Grandmother's journey from Vietnam to Australia.
Click on the book image below to listen to, 'My Two Blankets' by Irena Kobald.
Click on the book image below to listen to Mem Fox read her book, 'I'm Australian Too'.
