Four titles – Claws, Eyes, Flippers, Animals Move, I Have... and A beach for us to play – in a unique book set of Indigenous levelled readers by Indigenous authors and illustrators.
The Deadly Reads for Deadly Readers (Saltwater Series) book set provides Indigenous and non-Indigenous children with engaging and meaningful experiences with print to support their reading skills and intrinsic desire to read.
Magabala Books is Australia's oldest independent Indigenous publishing house. Based in the pearling town of Broome in the far north of Western Australia, Magabala Books is one of the most remote publishing houses in the world.
Magabala Books has commissioned a number of early childhood books, and has developed the text in-house with the assistance of early-childhood literacy and educational experts.
Nola Turner-Jensen is the author of two of Magabala’s Deadly Reads for Deadly Readers series: I Have and A beach for us to play, and the children’s book The Sugarbag.
Nola is an Aboriginal woman from Wiradjuri country in NSW. She is Director, content writer and Aboriginal consultant for the ground-breaking website, Crackerjack http://www.crackerjackeducation.com.au. She has worked as an Indigenous Early Childhood Consultant for many years and was founder of the largest Aboriginal and Torres Strait islander Early Childhood Company in Australia.
Illustrated By
Dub Leffler is a descendent from the Bigambul people of South-West Queensland, and is one of Australia’s most sought-after illustrators of children’s literature. As well as an illustrator, Dub is the author of two children’s books and is currently illustrating his 25th title. Dub’s work has afforded him travel to places such as remote Australia, Europe, Indonesia and America, and his illustrations are in the permanent collection of the Library of Congress in Washington, D.C.
Maggie Prewett is a descendent of the Ngarluma people of the Pilbara region of Western Australia. She grew up in Perth, and studied Design and Illustration at Perth Technical College.
From an early age, art and literature were encouraged, thereby providing Maggie with a basis for life that has been filled with artistic enjoyment. Her paintings and ink drawings are held in collections throughout Australia and she has participated in a number of group exhibitions. Maggie has lived in Broome in the far north of Western Australia since the 1970s.
