![]() ![]() ![]() School Library Journal's Good Comics for Kids "Every two-page spread in this book is a gem.The images are filled with details, making this a great book for an adult and child to read together, pointing things out as they go, or alone, all the better to pore over the pages and take in every detail." "A bright, brimming feast of lyrical zaniness." Wall Street Journal 's Best New Children's Books "Spectacular weirdness…imaginative odyssey…memorable as it is bizarre." ★ ★ ★ "Readers, particularly the newly independent ones at whom this is aimed, will delightedly join the outing." A Handful of Sand makes an essential contribution to understanding the complex nature of the challenges confronting both ‘white’ Australian policy makers and remote Aboriginal community leaders.An Eisner Nominee: Best Publication for Early Readers ![]() Not since Frank Hardy’s The Unlucky Australians (1968) have the experiences of the Gurindji Walk-off leaders and their children been related with such insight and empathy. Written with a sensitive, candid and perceptive hand, A Handful of Sand reveals the path Vincent Lingiari and other Gurindji elders took to achieve their land rights victory, and how their struggles in fact began, rather than ended, with Whitlam’s handback. Now, after many years of research, A Handful of Sand tells the story behind the Gurindji people’s famous Wave Hill Walk-off in 1966 and questions the meanings commonly attributed to the return of their land by Gough Whitlam in 1975. SHORTLISTED for the Northern Territory Chief Minister’s History Book Award 2017įifty years ago, a group of striking Aboriginal stockmen in the remote Northern Territory of Australia heralded a revolution in the cattle industry and a massive shift in Aboriginal affairs. SHORTLISTED for the Prime Minister’s Literary Awards 2017 (Australian History) SHORTLISTED for the Territory Read 2018 Book of the Year Award ![]()
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