Bindi

**Winner, 2019 Western Australian Premier's Book Awards, Daisy Utemorrah Award**

**Winner, 2021 Australia Books Industry Awards, Small Publishers' Children's Book of the Year**

**Winner, 2021 Queensland Literary Awards, Children's Book Award**

**Winner, 2021 Speech Pathology, Australia Books of the Year Awards, Eight to ten Years**

**Shortlisted, 2022 NSW Premier's Literary Awards, Patricia Wrightson Prize for Children's Literature**

**Shortlisted, 2022 Adelaide Festival Awards for Literature, Children's Literature Awards**

**Shortlisted, 2022 Ena Noel Award, The IBBY Australia Encouragement Award for a Young Emerging Writer or Illustrator**

**Shortlisted, 2021 Children's Book Council of Australia, Book of the Year Awards, Younger Readers**

**Shortlisted, 2021 Australian Book Design Awards, Best Designed Children's Fiction Book**

**Shortlisted, 2021 Readings Children's Book Prize**

**Longlisted, 2021 Colin Roderick Literary Award**

Age range 8 to 12

Meet 11-year-old Bindi. She's not really into maths but LOVES art class and playing hockey. Her absolute FAVOURITE thing is adventuring outside with friends or her horse, Nell. A new year starts like normal - school, family, hockey, dancing. But this year hasn't gone to plan! There's a big art assignment, a drought, a broken wrist AND the biggest bushfires her town has ever seen!

Bindi is a verse novel for mid-upper primary students. Written 'for those who plant trees', Bindi explores climate, bush fires, and healing. Written from the point of view of 11-year-old, Bindi and her friends on Gundungurra Country.