Listed below are over 200 titles, covering a wide cross-section of the Aboriginal Studies syllabus for NSW, from K-12. The aim is to provide you with a comprehensive range of material for classroom & library use, plus teacher resources and some titles aimed at tertiary use, for further study & community use. Please refer to the community list on the home page for a more thorough list.
Beside each title in the general K-12 section is a code, indicating the area the book or DVD could be used in. These are a guide only.
TR: Teacher’s Resource UL: University Level BL: Bilingual Text
DVD: DVD
Material is also colour coded into three broad groups:
Red for literature, stories & drama Yellow for arts & music
Black for non-fiction & memoirs
A is for Aunty Elaine Russell ABC Books $14.95 PT
Aboriginal Affairs 1967-2005 Max Griffiths ASP 29.95 ST TR
Aboriginal Australia Folded Map ASP $24.95 PR ST TR
Aboriginal Australia Rolled Map ASP $24.95 PR ST TR (Please email gleebooks to order)
Aboriginal Australia: An Introductory Reader Bourke et al UQP $24.00 ST TR
Aboriginal Australians: Third Edition Richard Broome A&U $35.00 ST TR
Aboriginal Heroes of the Resistance Paul Newbury BushBooks $20 ST TR
Aboriginal People & Their Plants P Clarke Rosenberg $39.95 TR
Aboriginal Sydney: A Guide to Important Places of the Past & Present Melinda Hickson ASP $34.95 ST TR
Albert Albert Namatjira Open Books $24.95 PT ST BL
Alherramp-areny Angkety Arelh-kenh: Women's Stories from Laramba IAD Press $21.90 ST TR
All My Mob Ruby Ginibi Langford UQP $24.95 ST TR
Ancestor Power Lynne Hume MUP $39.95 ST TR
Anna the Goanna McDougall/Taylor ASP $19.95 PT PR
Around the Kitchen Table Reconciliation Resource Women's Reconciliation Network Bk & DVD $75 ST TR
Art, Land, Story Christine Nicholls Working Title Press
$14.00 PT
Art, History, Place Christine Nicholls WTP $
Aukam: The Woman Who Wove by the Light Belinda Kabal Black Ink $15.00 PT
Auntie Rita Rita Huggins ASP $22.95 ST TR
Australian ABC of Animals Bronwyn Bancroft Little Hare Books $14.95 PT
Australian Aboriginal Paintings Jennifer Isaacs New Holland
Publishers $44.95 ST TR
Australia's Frontier Wares 1788-1838 John Connor UNSWP $39.95 ST TR
Bajirriga the Turtle Trevor Fourmile Black Ink $15.00 PT
Bangu the Flying Fox Jillian Taylor ASP $20.85 PT
The Barefoot Kids Steve Hawke FACP $16.95 PR ST
Barungin Jack Davis Currency Press $21.95 ST
Bilby & the Bushfire Joanne Crawford Magabala $18.95 PT
Bip:The Snapping Bungaroo McRobbie/Fielding Magabala $10.95 PT
Bittangabee Tribe Stewart et al ASP $22.95 PT
Black Diggers Robert A Hall ASP $24.95 ST TR
Black Mary & Gunjies Julie Janson ASP $18.65 ST
Blood on the Wattle Bruce Elder New Holland Publishing $29.95 ST TR
Blood, Sweat & Welfare: A History of White Bosses & Aboriginal Pastoral Workers Mary Anne Jebb UWAP $34.95 TR
Born a Half-Caste Marnie Kennedy ASP $13.15 ST
Bran Nue Dae Jimmy Chi Currency Press $24.95 ST
The Burnt Stick Anthony Hill Penguin $14.95 PT
Bush Food Jennifer Isaccs Penguin $45.00 TR SR
Bush Games & KnuckleBones Doris Kartinyeri Magabala $18.95 PT
Bush Toys: Aboriginal Children at Play Claudia Haagen ASP $43.95 TR
Carpentaria Alexis Wright Giramondo $26.95 ST TR
Child’s Dreaming Kevin Gilbert Hyland House $21.95 PT
The Circuit Cole/Harrison/Lefever/Raymond/Torres/West
Currency Press $29.95 ST
Cleared Out: First Contact in the Western Desert Sue Davenport ASP $45 ST TR
Close to the Bone Ned Manning Currency Press $21.95 ST
Cocky, The Crow & the Hawk Napanangka Matingali
Working Title Press $11.95 PT
Contemporary Aboriginal Art: Revised Edition Sue McCulloch A&U $45.00 ST TR
Contemporary Indigenous Plays Vivienne Cleven Currency $32.95 SR
Convincing Ground Bruce Pascoe ASP $39.95 TR
Corroboree Wallam/Kelly UWAP $24.95 PT
Creatures of the Rainforest Brim/Eglitis Magabala $26.95 PT
Crossing the Strait Kathryn Wells Continental $25.00 ST TR
Dabu Grows Up Selena Solomon Magabala $14.95 PT
Dan’s Grandpa Sally Morgan Penguin $12.95 PT
Dead Heart Nicholas Parsons Currency Press $18.95 ST
Daughters of the Dreaming Diane Bell Spinifex $34.95 TR
Dead Heart Nicholas Parsons Roadshow $21.95 DVD
Deadly Sounds, Deadly Places:Contemporary Aboriginal
Music Dunbar-Hall/Gibson NSWUP $39.95 ST
Desert Cowboy Lowe/Pike Magabala $16.45 PT
Desert Dog Lowe/Pike Magabala $16.45 PT
Dhuuluu-ya: To Talk Straight Anita Heiss ASP $34.95 ST TR
Digger J Jones Richard Frankland Scholastic $15.00 PR
Dingo Rolf de Heer Madman $32.95 DVD ST
Dirrangun Williams/Daley HarperCollins $11.95 PR
Djet & Nak Nak Johnny Wunungmurra ASP $9.95 PT
Do Not Go Round the Edges Daisy Utemorrah Magabala $16.00 PT
Don't Ask for Stories Ute Eickelkamp ASP $39.95 TR
Don’t Take Your Love to Town Ruby Ginibi Langford UQP $24.95 ST TR
Down the Hole Edna Williams Magabala Books $27.45 PT
Elders: Wisdom from Australia’s Indigenous People Peter McConchie CUP $36.95 PR SR TR
Ernabella Batiks David Kauss NMA $14.95 SR TR
Everything Comes from the Land: Poster M K Turner IAD Press $9.95
Follow the Rabbit-Proof Fence Doris Pilkington UQP $19.95 ST TR
The Frontier Conflict: The Australian Experience Bain Attwood NMA $39.95 ST TR
Geebungs & Snake Whistles: Koori People & the Plants of Wreck Bay ASP $14.95
Going Bush: Adventures Across Indigenous Australia Freeman/Millman Lonely Planet $34.95 DVD ST
Going Bush Wheatley/Searle AU $29.95 PT ST
Going for Kalta Yvonne/Brenda Magabala $12.95 PT
Gong-Wapitja: Women & Art from Yirrkala Gillian Hutcherson ASP $43.95 ST TR
Growing Up Kaytetye Tommy Thompson Magabala $24.95 PR
Hard Yards Melissa Lucashenko UQP $23.95 ST
Haunted Earth Peter Read UNSWP $39.95 TR
Home: A Novel Larissa Behrendt UQP $23.95 SR
Hunters & Trackers Pat Lowe Rosenberg $29.95 ST
I’m the One That Knows this Country Jessie Lennon ASP $26.95 ST
In Our Town Jack Davis Currency Press $17.95 ST
Indigenous Studies in Education Phillips/Lampert Pearsons $59.95 TR
An Indij Sport Report: The Preston Campbell Edition Indij Readers $13.95 PR
An Indij Sport Report: Inside the Sydney Swans with Michael O’Loughlin Hall et al Indij Readers $13.95 PR
Jalygurr: Aussie Animal Rhymes Pat Torres Magabala $9.95 PT
Jandamarra & the Bunuba Resistance Pedersen/Woorunmurra Magabala $21.95
Jedda Chauvel Screen $39.95 DVD
Jindabyne Ray Lawrence Roadshow $39.95 DVD
Jirrbal Rainforest Dreamtime Stories Yarrcali Barlow Magabala $24.95 PT
Joshua & the Two Crabs Joshua Button Magabala $16.95 PT
Kangaroo & the Porpoise Agnes Lippo Scholastic $14.00 PT
Kakadu Calling Jane Christophersen Magabala $12.95 PT
Kangkushot: The Life of Nyamal Lawman Read/Coppin
ASP $32.95 TR
Keeping Culture: Aboriginal Tasmania Amanda Reynolds
NMA $49.95 ST TR
Keringke: Contemporary Eastern Arrernte Art IAD Press $32.95
The Lamb Enters the Dreaming Robert Kenny Scribe $39.95 TR
Language & Culture in Aboriginal Australia Walsh/Yallop ASP $34.95 ST TR
Learning from the Land Yami Lester IAD Press
Life in Gadigal Country Anita Heiss Gadigal Press $16.50 ST
The Little Platypus & the Fire Spirit Mundara Koorang ASP $19.95 PT
The Lizard Gang Kirra Somerville Magabala $19.95 PT
Looking for Blackfellas Point Mark McKenna UNSWP $39.95 ST TR
Loongie the Greedy Crocodile Lucy & Kiefer Dann Magabala $16.95 PT
Love Against the Law Camfoo/Camfoo ASP $26.95 ST
Lowitja Lowitja O’Donoghue Working Title Press $12.95 PR
Luurnpa, the Magical Kingfisher Napangarti Bai Bai
Working Title Press $14.00
Macquarie PEN Anthology of Aboriginal Literature Heiss/Minter AU $39.95 ST TR
The Magic Boomerang Lessac/Greenwood Artbeat $14.95 PT
Magic Fire at Warlukurlangu: A Dreaming Narrative Dolly Nampijinpa Working Title Press $11.95 PT
Malu-Kangaroo: How the First Children Learnt to Surf
Bronwyn Bancroft HarperCollins $25.00 PT
The Mark of the Wagarl Lorna Little Magabala $22.95 PT
Me & My Mum Anita Heiss Indij Readers $9.95 PR
Me & You: The Life Story of Delia Walker Tina Coutts ASP $16.95 ST
Message Stick: Contemporary Aboriginal Writing Kerry Reed-Gilbert Jukurrpa $16.45 ST TR
Mingkiri Lynn Baker IAD Press $16.45 PR
Mixed Relations Regina Ganter UWAP $54.95 TR
Moonglue Daisy Utemorrah Magabala $16.45 PT
Ms Johnstone to the Rescue King/Rowan Indij Readers $12.95 PR
Mutton Fish: The Survivng Culture of Abalone on the South Coast Cruse et al ASP $24.95 ST TR
My Home in Kakadu Jane Christophersen Magabala $14.95 PT
My Place Sally Morgan FACP $24.95 ST TR
Nan & Dad & Me at the Zoo Dylan Russell Indij Readers $12.95 PR
Nana’s Land Sarago-Kendrick Magabala $18.95 PT
Nardika Learns to Make a Spear Chris Fry Magabala $18.65 PT
Nyuntu Ninti: What You Should Know Bob Randall ABC PT ST $27.95
The Old Frangipani Tree at Flying Fish Point Trina Saffioti Magabala $24.95 PT
Old Man Tucker Debbie Austin $19.95 PT
Other Side of the Frontier Henry Reynolds UNSWP $29.95 ST TR
Our Country Fiona Doyle UQP $16.85 PR
Our Rooster, Jack Dodd-Farrawell Indij Readers $12.95 PR
Out of the Desert: Stories from the Walmajarri Exodus Magabala $39.95
The Outback Annaliese Porter Magabala $22.95 PT
Paint Me Black Claire Henty-Gebert ASP $24.95 ST
Paint-Up Amanda Ahern UQP $35.00 PR ST
Painting the Land Story Luke Taylor National Museum $55.00 PR TR
Pangkarlangu & The Lost Child Molly Napurrurla Scholastic $11.95 PT
Papunya School Book of Country & History Papunya School A&U $16.95 PTP
Patterns of Australia Bronwyn Bancroft Little Hare Books $15.00 PT
Pigs & Honey Jeanie Adams Omnibus $11.00 PT
Planning for Country Fiona Walsh IAD $45 ST TR
Post Me to the Prime Minister Romaine Moreton Magabala $29.95 ST
Putting in the Colour Mary-Lou Nugent IAD press $32.90 ST
Rabbit-Proof Fence: Screenplay C Olsen Currency Press $21.95 ST
Rabbit-Proof Fence Phillip Noyce Magna $24.95 DVD
Raps for Big Fullas Monkey Mark Indij Readers $12.95 PR
Raps for Little Fullas Monkey Mark Indij Readers $9.95 PR
Reconciliation Sandra Cahir CUP $11.50 PR
Remembering Aboriginal Heroes Ramsland/Mooney Brolga $29.95 ST TR
Reports from a Wild Country Deborah Bird Rose UNSWP $39.95 TR
Repossession of Our Spirit: Traditional Owners of Northern Sydney Dennis Foley $33 ST TR
Return to the Brink Rodney Hall Currency Press $16.45 ST
River Girl: Growing Up Around the River Murray Glenda Andrew Black Ink $18.00 ST
Rob Riley: An Aboriginal Leader's Quest for Justice Quentin Beresford ASP $39.95 ST TR
Sacred Waters: Story of the Blue Mountains’ Gully Traditional Owners Diane Johnston Halstead $60.00 ST TR
Settling with Indigenous People Langton et al Federation Press $66 ST TR
The Shack That Dad Built Elaine Russell Little Hare Books $14.95 PT
Shadow Lines Stephen Kinnane FACP $29.95 ST
Skins: Contemporary Indigenous Writing Akiwenzie-Damm IAD Press $27.40 ST
Smarty Pants: The Badudu Stories May O’Brien FACP $11.95 PT
Smoke Encrypted Whispers Sam Waton UQP $22.95 ST
Social Archaeology of Australian Indigenous Societies David/Barker/McNiven ASP $39.95 ST TR
Songlines: Emerging Queensland Indigenous Artists Nain et al Keeaira Press $20.00 ST TR
Songlines & Stone Axes: Transport, Travel & Trade in Australia John Nicolson A&U $29.95 PR SR
Sovereign Subjects Aileen Moreton-Robinson A&U $35 TR
The Spotted Cat Molly Napururia Working Title Press $11.95 PT
Steam Pigs Melissa Lucashenko UQP $23.95 ST
Stolen Jane Harrison Currency Press $21.95 ST
A Story to Tell Laurel Nannup UWAP $24.95 PT ST
Stradbroke Dreamtime Oodgeroo Nunukul Little Hare Books $29.95 PT
Sun Mother Wakes the World Wolkstein/Bancroft Harper $34.95 PT
Survival: A History of Aboriginal Life in NSW Nigel Parbury BofS $30.00 ST TR
Swallow the Air Tara June Winch UQP $28.00 ST
Teacher’s Guide: Indij Reader Series 2 Bunworth et al
Indij Readers $39.95 TR
Take Power Like this Old Man Here Alexis Wright IAD $27.45 ST TR
Teaching Aboriginal Studies Rhonda Craven A&U $49.95 TR
Tell Me Why Jackson/Templeton Magabala $16.95 PT
Telling the Truth about Aboriginal History Bain Attwood A&U $35 ST TR
Ten Canoes Rolf de Heer Madman $37.95 DVD
They Took the Children David Hollinsworth WTP $14.95 PT ST
Tjarany Roughtail & Other Kukatja Stories Gracie Green
Magabala $22.95 PT
Too Big for Your Boots: The Badudu Stories May O’Brien
FACP $11.95 PT
Tracey Moffat: Between Dreams & Reality Tracey Moffat
Skira $59.95 ST TR UL
The Tracker Rolf De Heer Roadshow $24.95 DVD
Tracker Tjugingji Bob Randall IAD Press PT
The Two Wallabies Henry Jakamarra Working Title Press
$13.00 PT
Untreated: Poems by Black Writers Josie Douglas IAD
Press $16.95 ST
Up the Road John Harding Currency Press $18.95 ST
Urgent Leanne Rowe Random House $16.95 ST
Us Mob Narogin Mudrooroo Harper Collins $22.95 ST
Us Mob Walawurru Wilyuka/Spillman Magabala $14.95
PT
Very Big Journey: My Life as I Remember It Hilda Jarman
Muir ASP $29.95 ST
Wandihnu & the Old Dugong Elizabeth & Wandihnu Wymarra Magabala Books $18.95 PT
Warlukurlangu Artists: Yuendumu Door Kuru/Warri ASP
$30.95 ST
Watershed Fabi Bayet-Charlton IAD Press $22.95 ST
We of the Never-Never Igor Auzins $21.95 DVD ST
White Christ, Black Cross Noel Loos ASP $39.95 TR
Whitening Race: Essays in Social & Cultural History Aileen Moreton-Robinson UNSWP $34.95 TR
Why Warriors Lie Down & Die RichardTrudgen Aboriginal Productions $29.95 TR UL
Why Weren't We Told? Henry Reynolds Penguin $26.95 ST TR
Wild Cat Falling Mudrooroo HarperCollins $22.95 ST
Winin: Why the Emu Cannot Fly Charles/Riches Magabala $8.95 PT
Wiradjuri Places: The Murrumbidgee River Peter Kabaila
Black Mtn Press $36.00 ST TR
Women’s Stories from Laramba IAD Press $21.95 PT
BL TR
Wrapped in a Possum Skin Amanda Reynolds NMA
$19.95 ST
Writing Never Arrives Naked Penny Van Toorn ASP $39.95 ST TR
Wunambi The Water Snake May O'Brien ASP $19.95
Yanagai! Yanagai! Andrea James Currency Press $18.95
ST
Yearning to Go Home Paul Ishiguchi $24.95
Yirra & Her Deadly Dog, Demon Anita Heiss & La Perouse
Public School ABC Books $14.95 PR
Yorro Yorro Mowaljarlai/Malnic Magabala $32.95 ST TR
You Narelle Wickham Ginniderra Press $18.00 ST
