The illustrations have been crafted by David Hardy so whether this is for your own tiny tots or a gift for others, you cannot go wrong with Somebody’s Land: Welcome To Our Country.īuy it here. To you, Adam Goodes is very well one of the greatest AFL players of all time but to those mini humans who live with you, he’s going to be the guy that teaches them to embrace First Nations history and culture, all about the term ‘terra nullius’ and what ‘Welcome To Country’ really means. Somebody’s Land: Welcome To Our Country By Adam Goodes and Ellie Laing Be it an interactive journey with sensory activities, a themed read bearing small life lessons or a hypnotic and rhythmic page-turner guaranteed to send your pride and joy off into some deep Zs-we have you sorted. In good faith, we’ll assume you’ve treated your little ones to the same classics already so make way for the next generation of children’s books guaranteed to keep even the busiest tiny tot occupied.
There’s nothing new in this latest wombat diary, if you’ve read any of the others, but it’s another smile-sparking missive from the annals of a little being with simple tastes and beguiling determination.Īnica Boulanger-Mashberg is a freelance editor, writer, and reviewer, and has worked as a bookseller at The Hobart Bookshop for over 10 years.It may seem like only yesterday that your parents were stocking your shelves with the likes of Where The Wild Things Are, The Hungry Caterpillar and of course, The Rainbow Fish. Whatley’s illustrations match the tone: sparse composition with little background reminds us that the story here is Mothball’s and what you see is what you get. Her voice is exactly what you would imagine from a stocky young wombat- Mothball knows her own mind and is a creature of few words. She plods along through her world, digging holes, ploughing through trifling obstacles like wooden doors, and generally sneaking her way into her humans’ (and our) hearts. When her favourite nibbles are not available, she chomps through all sorts of other things- socks, toilet paper, shoelaces-in her endless quest for carrots and grass and more carrots and more grass. In the now-familiar charming, chunky, persistent, steadfast wombat tone we have come to love, little orphaned Mothball is found and rescued, quickly embracing life with her humans, so long as grass and carrots are always plentiful and fresh. Says prequels are only for YA epics and fantasy novel franchises? Jackie French and Bruce Whatley have decided it’s time for us to learn the backstory of the protagonist of their wildly successful Diary of a Wombat series, which first hit our bookshelves 20 years ago.
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