Australian Animals Indigenous Discovery Big Book

Follow the fun rhyming text as it takes you on a journey to meet Australia’s amazing wildlife, featuring bouncy kangaroos, noisy cockatoos, speedy emus and many more, all brought to life through stunning artwork by Darug artist-educator Leanne Mulgo Watson in this Indigenous Discovery series. Emily Bruce is the author, although she prefers the term Grammar-Wrangler-in-Chief. She has worked in children’s publishing in the UK and Australia for eight years and is passionate about finding the spark that ignites a lifelong love of literacy in the next generation of storytellers.

CBCA Notable in Early Childhood category 2023

Winner of Educational Publishing Award -Teacher Resource 2022
Judges comments
The Indigenous Discovery Big Book Series raises the bar of excellence in content and methods for furthering student understanding in many early years concepts such as shapes, colours, numbers and animals. Meeting many descriptors of the Australian Curriculum, this stunning multifunctional series provides a springboard for conversations across multiple disciplines and also raises student awareness of and exposure to Indigenous artwork from an early age combining early years concepts with Aboriginal art. This resource is a gorgeous celebration of visual literacy using Indigenous art while supporting fundamental understandings across a range of subject areas.
Leanne Watson is a Dharug woman commonly known in the Aboriginal Community as Mulgo, meaning Black Swan. She started painting at a young age, taught by her mother Aunty Edna Watson and her brother Bundeluk Watson, and is now an accomplished artist.
The titles in the Indigenous Discovery Big Book series have been developed to help students build confidence with early learning concepts, such as shapes, colours, numbers and animals, while simultaneously increasing their awareness of and exposure to Indigenous artwork from an early age. The engaging rhyming text supports early language skills, such as vocabulary building, and the interactive relationship between the text and the gorgeous full-colour illustrations promotes key visual literacy skills. T

he big book format makes these titles perfect for an enriching shared reading experience that students will cherish.
Size: 300 x 420mmPages: 24
The Indigenous Discovery Big Book Pack is published by Learning Media.
Other titles available in the Indigenous Discovery Big Book series:

Colours

Shapes

Numbers 

Under the Sea