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Combatting Unfairness with Kindness
“The Amanda Commander series is a fresh and contemporary junior fiction series for kids who love real and relatable characters experiencing real and relatable life challenges. These books are fun, cheery and easy to read…(and) look at some of the issues kids really do have to contend with, like friendships, school challenge and self-discovery.” - Kids’ Book Review
Winner of the 2019 CBCA Book of the Year Eve Pownall Award and the 2018 Speech Pathology Book of the Year - Best Book for Language and Literacy Development Indigenous Children Award.
In a time ‘long ago and not so long ago’ children were taken from their parents, their ‘sorrow echoing across the land’. As the Prime Minister’s speech unfolds Maggie is reunited with her mother. But the faces and memories of the stolen generation are all around them.
Meeting former Prime Minister Kevin Rudd
I was invited to meet the former Prime Minister of Australia, Mr Kevin Rudd. We had a great talk about Australia's history, truth-telling, Sorry Day, the National Apology, the Stolen Generations, Constitutional Recognition, the Uluru Statement from the Heart and acknowledging our First Nation's People, of which I am very passionate about. I also loved hearing more about the wonderful work of the National Apology Foundation.
Grandma’s Treasured Shoes on Playschool
By Coral Vass and Christina Huynh
Grandma’s Treasured Shoes was read by Australian actor Andrew McFarlane on Australia’s oldest and most loved children’s television program- Playschool (Tuesday 13th April 2021)
In January 2024, both The Forgotten Song - Saving the Regent Honeyeater and The Heartbeat of the Land both appeared on ABC TV’s Playschool
The Perfectly Proper Grand Pet Parade, read by the Duchess of York on ‘Storytime with Fergie and Friends’
‘A beautiful book!’ - Duchess of York, Sarah Ferguson