Auteur: Nadia Wheatley

Nadia Wheatley is an award-winning author whose books over thirty years reflect a commitment to issues of Reconciliation, social justice, and the conservation of the environment. Before writing fiction, the author completed a post-graduate degree in Australian history. Her publications in the field include a biography that was awarded the New South Wales Premier »s Australian History Award in 2002 as well as the Age Non-Fiction Book of the Year, 2001.Nadia Wheatley »s books for children include the classic picture book My Place(illustrated by Donna Rawlins), which travels backwards through the lives of the families who share a single small piece of land. Her fiction for young adults includes the historical novel, The House that was Eureka.Ken Searle is best known for the cityscapes that he has exhibited during a forty-year career as an artist. In his book design, he draws upon the same sense of composition to take the reader on a journey through the landscape of the book, stopping along the way at illustrations in a variety of mediums.Over the last decade, Nadia Wheatley and Ken Searle have variously written, illustrated, designed or compiled five books that express aspects of the Indigenous principles of education that they experienced while working as consultants at Papunya School (Northern Territory). These include the Papunya School Book of Country and History, which in 2002 won the New South Wales Premier »s History for Young People Award, and Playground, which was shortlisted for the same award in 2012.