Afloat: Year 2 English, Science, Design and Technologies, Visual Arts

COMING SOON! TERM 1 2025

Author: Kirli Saunders  Illustrator: Freya Blackwood

Publisher: Hardie Grant

Synopsis: From award-winning Gunai author Kirli Saunders and seven-time CBCA-winner Freya Blackwood comes Afloat, a story told in a time of climate crisis. 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.

Afloat is an uplifting and inspiring picture book that uses the practice of weaving as a powerful metaphor for the honouring and teaching of First Nations wisdom, and the coming together of all people to survive, thrive and create a more hopeful future. (Publisher synopsis)

Cross-curriculum links: Science; Design and Technologies, Visual Arts