Down Under: Vanishing Cultures by Jan Reynolds
	List Price:   $7.95 Unit Price:   $6.36 You Save:   $1.59 (20%) ISBN-10:   160060126X ISBN-13:   9781600601262 Publisher:   Lee & Low Books Category:   Non-Fiction Pages:   32 Format:   Picture Book
Awards
2004  CLA Book of the Year for Children Award  Nominee/Honoree  2007  California Young Reader Medal  Nominee/Honoree  2005  Georgia Children's Picture StoryBook Award  Winner!  2003  ForeWord Magazine Book of the Year Awards  Nominee/Honoree
Subjects
AUSTRALIA_JUVENILE LITERATURE
Description/Notes
'Examines the vanishing culture of the Tiwi tribe, aborigines who live on a small island off the coast of Australia'--Provided by publisher. Amprenula, a young Tiwi girl from an island off the Australian coast, gathers food with her mother. Amprenula lives closely with the land, just as her people have done for thousands of years, taking only what they need from the forest and the ocean around them. For the Tiwi and other Aborigines, the land is sacred. It connects them with their ancestors and the beginning of creation. As Amprenula combs through the forests and mangrove swamps, she is proud to travel along the same paths, sharing the same land, as her ancestors from centuries ago.