Greetings all,
Welcome to the Australian Story: an illustrated timeline BLOG tour. Author Tania McCartney has presented the history of Australia to children in such a clever way . . . bold images from the National Library of Australia's digital collection, a running timeline along the bottom of each page, dates & details highlighting this country's milestones. The book instantly captures children's attention . . . from the chunk of Gondwanaland, dinosaurs & first plants. Give your primary school aged child some perspective about where they fit in to life & they are the key to what happens next.
Welcome to the Australian Story: an illustrated timeline BLOG tour. Author Tania McCartney has presented the history of Australia to children in such a clever way . . . bold images from the National Library of Australia's digital collection, a running timeline along the bottom of each page, dates & details highlighting this country's milestones. The book instantly captures children's attention . . . from the chunk of Gondwanaland, dinosaurs & first plants. Give your primary school aged child some perspective about where they fit in to life & they are the key to what happens next.
Things start to get really interesting when Indigenous people arrive in Australia & the land masses break off (good bye New Guinea) & hello Warrigal (dingo).
Never under estimate children's love of facts & figures, they'll be quizzing you.
Q: Which European disovered Australia first??
A: Dutch explorer Willem Jansz in 1606.
Australia was called New Holland when James Cook landed in 1770 to claim it for Great Britain. Then the first fleet came with Arthur Phillip & convicts on 26th January 1788 - Australia Day - first celebrated in 1838 with fireworks, lamingtons, Union Jack car flags & a BBQ, maybe not, this is non fiction. Anyway, you'll ace Australian trivia after reading this book.
We were lucky enough to attend Tania's entertaining book launch at the NLA, where she read to the children & involved them in a human time line: my 3rd girl was Captain Cook & my son was a 1956 Melbourne Olympics team member!!
This book is filled with inventions, currency, sports, gold rushes, World Heritage sites & achievements, all the big names are in it too - explorers Flinders, MacQuarie, Stuart, Burke, Wills; Holden cars + Phar Lap, the world's greatest racehorse. You'll have flash backs to childhood history projects & it's a neat quick reference guide, a book, who knew, you don't have to google everything!! Tania McCartney, making history cool for children, 47B years, $24.95, order here.
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