The worst thing would be for them to accept it in blind faith. I want young readers to contemplate the evidence put forward, test it with their own research and go looking for more. What do you hope that young readers will take away from Young Dark Emu? Was a version of Dark Emu for young readers always in the plan?īecause it was accepted so quickly and so comprehensively it was planned early on to release Young Dark Emu. It felt like Australia was changing its mind about its history. I wasn’t surprised by the enthusiastic reception because that is what I had been getting when I spoke about this information years before Dark Emu was published. There has been an amazing response to Dark Emu since it was first published in 2014, you have won a number of awards including Book of the Year at the NSW Premier’s Literary Awards, sold more than 100,000 copies of the book and it’s been adapted into a dance performance by Bangarra. Dark Emu is a shape in the dark areas between the stars of the Milky Way. European astronomy uses constellations of stars to tell a story, but sometimes Aboriginal Australia uses the darkness between the stars. ‘Throughout history, humans have looked to the night sky to explain their existence, but the conclusions peoples draw from the same sky can be remarkably different.
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