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Sorry day /

Vass, Coral,

Sorry day / Coral Vass and Dub Leffler. - Canberra, ACT : National Library of Australia, 2018. - 32 unnumbered pages : chiefly colour illustrations ; 27 cm.

National Library of Australia's Nq 2018-1123 copy is signed by author and illustrator.

There was a hum of excitement. Flags flickered in the breeze as Maggie's heart danced. Maggie holds tight to her mother as they await the long anticipated apology. A retelling of the day when the then Prime Minister of Australia acknowledged the sorrows of past and said sorry to the generation of children who were taken from their homes.

National Library of Australia's Nq 2018-1123 copy exhibited: “Story Time: Australian Children's Literature”, National Library of Australia, 22 August 2019 ? 9 February 2020

Winner, Indigenous Children catagory, Speech Pathology Australia Book of the Year Award, 2018. CBCA Book of the Year Awards, Eve Pownall Award, 2019.

9780642279033 (hardback)


Stolen generations (Australia)--Juvenile fiction.
Historical fiction.
Politics & government.
Indigenous people--Australia--Juvenile fiction.
Picture books.
Aboriginal Australians--Pictorial workd--Juvenile fiction.
Politics and culture--Australia--Juvenile fiction.
Apologizing--Pictorial works--Juvenile fiction.
Stolen generations (Australia)--Pictorial works--Juvenile fiction.
Indigenous peoples--Pictorial works--Juvenile fiction.
Indigenous people--Juvenile fiction.
Children's stories.
Apologizing--Juvenile fiction.
Children's stories--Pictorial works.
Reconciliation--Juvenile fiction.
Political science.
Stolen generations (Australia)
Aboriginal Australians--Juvenile fiction.

Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander content. Australian


Fiction.
Historical fiction.
Picture books.
Historical fiction.
Australian fiction.
Fiction.
Juvenile works.

PR8305.A88 / S67 2018

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