Why+I+Love+Australia

== ﻿ ﻿ ﻿Short  listed Picture Book 2011   ==

//Why I Love Australia//
﻿by Bronwyn Bancroft Look at the blurb at the back of the book, you will see that Bronwyn explains why she loves Australia. On each of the pages in the book you will see a picture of a person holding a coolamon, a kind of wooden bowl, with smoke drifting from it.
 * Also available as an eBook

The person you see on each page is the host of each of the landscapes. He wishes you well as you visit his country and make your acknowledgements to the Ancestors and Elders past and present of each place.

* Look at the images on each page. * Which area of Australia do you think each landscape represents? * Do you know which Aboriginal language group this area represents? * You can click on this link to the Aboriginal language map to discover the language groups Aboriginal language map ***Bronwyn is a Bundjalung woman, can you find her language group on the map?** * What are some of the things that Bronwyn loves about Australia? * Can you list five things that you love about Australia? * Bronwyn uses many colours in her paintings. Choose a favourite page and see if you can count and name the colours on the page * Choose one area of Australia that you love. Draw a picture or create a painting of it.  You might like to see if you can use some of the colours that Bronwyn has used.