Afloat [Hardcover]

A powerful picture book story for our time of climate crisis interwoven with Indigenous wisdom.

From multi-award-winning Gunai author Kirli Saunders and Kate Greenaway Medal-winner Freya Blackwood comesAfloat. Against a backdrop of a changed environment, an Elder leads a child along the waterways, sharing her People’s knowledge and gathering community along the way. This uplifting and inspiring picture book uses the practice of weaving as a powerful metaphor for the honoring and teaching of First Nations wisdom, and the coming together of all people to survive, thrive, and create a more hopeful future.Kirli Saundersis a proud Gunai Woman who rarely stays in her lane. An award-winning, multidisciplinary artist, writer, singer-songwriter, and consultant, Kirli creates to connect, to make change. Her books have been celebrated by multiple literary awards, such as the Prime Minister's and the Queensland, Victorian, and Western Australian Premiers’ Literary awards, the Children’s Book Council Australia awards, and the Australian Book Industry awards. In 2022, she was awarded an Order of Australia Medal for her contribution to the arts.

Freya Blackwoodis an award-winning illustrator of children's books, who draws with a distinct style that is warm, perceptive and immediately recognizable. Since publishing her first picture book in 2003, Freya has won multiple awards, including the prestigious Kate Greenaway Medal.Richly textured& Blackwoods art underscores hope and opportunities to help cultivate the land& Reassurance for little ones facing an uncertain world.This is an affecting and beautiful fable of working together and creating something better& Readers will come away with a satisfying appreciation for the power of community. An intensely hopeful story of the capability of societies working together, this is clear enough for preschoolers but carries emotional depths that will be appreciateló6