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Bush Bash
Where is dingo dashing off to? Come and join the Bush Bash to find out—there are animals to count, things to find, and a surprise on the last page!
Dingo is headed somewhere looking excited, and the other animals want to know where he is going. Dingo won't say, so the others follow along in hot pursuit—two nosy numbats, three flying frogs, four burrowing bilbies, and more. The animals are all in for a surprise when Dingo's final destination is revealed on the last page. As well as being a counting book, this is a seek-and-find story, with one aboriginal artefact plus one non-native animal on each colorful spread.
Dingo is headed somewhere looking excited, and the other animals want to know where he is going. Dingo won't say, so the others follow along in hot pursuit—two nosy numbats, three flying frogs, four burrowing bilbies, and more. The animals are all in for a surprise when Dingo's final destination is revealed on the last page. As well as being a counting book, this is a seek-and-find story, with one aboriginal artefact plus one non-native animal on each colorful spread.
- GenresPicture BooksAnimals
24 pages, Hardcover
First published April 1, 2013
16 people want to read
About the author
Sally Morgan
415 books138 followersSally Morgan is recognised as one of Australia's best known Aboriginal artists and writers. She is one of a number of successful urban Aboriginal artists.
Sally was born in Perth in 1951, the eldest of five children. As a child she found school difficult because of questions from other students about her appearance and family background. She understood from her mother that she and her family were from India. However, when Sally was fifteen she learnt that she and her sister were in fact of Aboriginal descent, from the Palku people of the Pilbara.
This experience of her hidden origins, and subsequent quest for identity, was the stimulus for her first book My Place published in 1987. It tells the story of her self discovery through reconnection with her Aboriginal culture and community. The book was an immediate success and has since sold over half a million copies in Australia. It has also been published in the United States, Europe and Asia.
Her second book Wanamurraganya was published in 1989. It is the biography of her grandfather, Jack McPhee. She has also written five books for children.
As well as writing, Sally Morgan has established an international reputation as an artist. She has works in numerous private and public collections in Australia and the United States, including the Australian National Gallery and the Dobell Foundation collection. Her work is particularly popular in the United States. Her work as an artist is excellently described and illustrated in the book Art of Sally Morgan.
She has received many awards, including from the Human Rights and Equal Opportunities Commission. As a part of the celebration in 1993 of the Universal Declaration of Human Rights, her print Outback was selected by international art historians as one of 30 paintings and sculptures for reproduction on a stamp representing an article of the Declaration.
My Place remains her most influential work, not only because of its very wide popularity but also because it provided a new model for other writers, particularly those of indigenous background.
She is currently Director of the Centre for Indigenous History and Arts at The University of Western Australia.
Librarian Note: There is more than one author in the GoodReads database with this name. See this thread for more information.
Sally was born in Perth in 1951, the eldest of five children. As a child she found school difficult because of questions from other students about her appearance and family background. She understood from her mother that she and her family were from India. However, when Sally was fifteen she learnt that she and her sister were in fact of Aboriginal descent, from the Palku people of the Pilbara.
This experience of her hidden origins, and subsequent quest for identity, was the stimulus for her first book My Place published in 1987. It tells the story of her self discovery through reconnection with her Aboriginal culture and community. The book was an immediate success and has since sold over half a million copies in Australia. It has also been published in the United States, Europe and Asia.
Her second book Wanamurraganya was published in 1989. It is the biography of her grandfather, Jack McPhee. She has also written five books for children.
As well as writing, Sally Morgan has established an international reputation as an artist. She has works in numerous private and public collections in Australia and the United States, including the Australian National Gallery and the Dobell Foundation collection. Her work is particularly popular in the United States. Her work as an artist is excellently described and illustrated in the book Art of Sally Morgan.
She has received many awards, including from the Human Rights and Equal Opportunities Commission. As a part of the celebration in 1993 of the Universal Declaration of Human Rights, her print Outback was selected by international art historians as one of 30 paintings and sculptures for reproduction on a stamp representing an article of the Declaration.
My Place remains her most influential work, not only because of its very wide popularity but also because it provided a new model for other writers, particularly those of indigenous background.
She is currently Director of the Centre for Indigenous History and Arts at The University of Western Australia.
Librarian Note: There is more than one author in the GoodReads database with this name. See this thread for more information.
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Displaying 1 - 4 of 4 reviews
November 19, 2013
Love, love, loved this book. One dashing dingo charges about through this counting book romp and comes across various other Australian animals as he goes. Eventually he urges them all to follow him to Emu's birthday.
The illustrations were delicious, referencing Aboriginal dreamtime art with lots of rainbow colours.
Finally at the end of the book there is a list of hidden animals for you to find on each page (for older children; my baby is only 7 months and not quite ready for that yet ha ha).
Delighted to have received this as a gift.
The illustrations were delicious, referencing Aboriginal dreamtime art with lots of rainbow colours.
Finally at the end of the book there is a list of hidden animals for you to find on each page (for older children; my baby is only 7 months and not quite ready for that yet ha ha).
Delighted to have received this as a gift.
January 7, 2014
Good counting book for under fives.
even though I like the illustrative work of Ambelin Kwaymullina I think it's a bit simplified here and could have more complexity.
even though I like the illustrative work of Ambelin Kwaymullina I think it's a bit simplified here and could have more complexity.
September 27, 2018
Sally Morgan who wrote My Place is here with a picture book featuring all sorts of Australian animals in a bit of a romp of a story, quite well done for what it is.
February 10, 2020
A simple counting book that will introduce readers to various Australian animals, as well as aboriginal artwork and objects. Bright, colourful and eye-catching.
Displaying 1 - 4 of 4 reviews