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  First published 2020, reprinted 2020

  Magabala Books Aboriginal Corporation 1 Bagot Rd, Broome, Western Australia 6725

  www.magabala.com e: shop@magabala.com Magabala Books receives financial assistance from the Commonwealth Government through the Australia Council, its arts advisory body. The State of Western Australia has made an investment in this project through the Department of Local Government, Sport and Cultural Industries in Association with LotteryWest. Magabala Books would like to acknowledge the support of the Shire of Broome, Western Australia.

  Text © Bruce Pascoe 2020

  Illustrations © Charmaine Ledden-Lewis 2020

  The author and illustrator assert their moral rights. All rights reserved. This book is copyright.

  Apart from any fair dealing for the purpose of private study, research, criticism or review, as permitted under the Copyright Act, no part of this publication may be reproduced by any process whatsoever without prior written permission of the publisher.

  Editing, cover and internal design by Cathie Tasker & Deborah Brown Printed in China by 1010 Printing International Cataloguing-in-publication data available from the National Library of Australia ISBN 978-1-925936-48-3 Print

  ISBN 978-1-925936-49-0 ePDF

  foUnd

  Bruce Pascoe

  i l l u s t r a t e d b Y

  Charmaine Ledden-Lewis

  I’m all alone.

  I want my mother

  mo

  and sist

  sis ers

  and brothers.

  But they’re all GONE.

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  see som

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  and som

  And a man.

  The man pushed us all into the bac k of a truck.

  The man pushed us all into the bac k of a truck.

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  and flewthrough the air…

  flewthrough the air…

  and ran.

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  my mother.

  PRESENT

  Now the man’s gone...

  And so is my family

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  I want my mother

  and sisters

  and brothers.

  I’m all alone.

  I run to the river.

  I can see some horses.

  They’re not my family,

  but they’re here.

  I go over to them.

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  MOOO M O OOO

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  MOOO M O

  I hear someone.

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  I charge down the hill

  but I don’t see my family.

  M o oo oooo

  M o

  M o o o o o o

  I can hear my mother

  y mo

  .

  M o oo oooo

  M o

  M o o o o o o

  I call out for her

  M o o o o o o o

  and she calls out for me.

  I hear her over the river.

  M o o o o o o o

  M o o o o o o o

  I see my mother

  y mo

  .

  She calls out for me again.

  I race over

  M o o o o o o o

  M o o o o o o o

  the river

  and she

  trots up.

  M o o o o o o o

  She smells my breath

  and licks my neck...

  I have found my mother.

  Now I am home…

  with my family.

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  Bruce Pascoe

  Bruce Pascoe has published widely in both adult and young adult literature and has won numerous awards including the New South Wales Premier’s Book of the Year Award in 2016 for Dark Emu and the Prime Minister’s Literature Award for Young Adult fiction for Fog, a dox in 2013. In 2018 he was awarded the Australia Council Award for Lifetime Achievement in Literature. Bruce is a born storyteller and this is his first children’s picture book. Bruce is a Yuin, Bunurong and Tasmanian man. He has enjoyed watching the progress of Charmaine’s artwork and is excited by the result.

  Charmaine Ledden-Lewis

  Charmaine is a Blue Mountains artist, and descendant of the Bundjalung people.

  Her matriarchal lineage is a living legacy of the stolen generation. She is a vocal advocate for people like herself who have had their history and opportunity to culture stolen from them.

  Raised in a loving family surrounded by art and music, Charmaine developed a passion for all things creative from an early age, and strives to provide such an environment for her two sons, taking great pleasure in nurturing creativity with them. Further, she believes we are all artists and encourages everyone to transcend inhibition and find their creative expression!

  Magabala Books is Australia’s leading Indigenous publisher.

  Aboriginal owned and controlled, Magabala celebrated thirty years of publishing in 2017. Based in Broome, Western Australia, Magabala is a national publishing house and its award-winning books include children’s picture books, junior and young adult fiction, adult fiction, memoir, non-fiction and poetry. Magabala is renowned for its program of professional development of Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander authors and illustrators, and its commitment to supporting storytellers to share their stories with the world.

  THE KESTIN INDIGENOUS ILLUSTRATOR AWARD

  WINNER

  Charmaine is the winner of Magabala’s second Kestin KESTIN

  Indigenous Illustrator Award. The aim of the Award is to INDIGENOUS

  mentor new and emerging Indigenous illustrators, or artists ILLUSTRATOR

  with an interest in becoming illustrators, in the production AWARD

  of illustrations for a children’s picture book to be published by Magabala. The award is funded by the Kestin Family Foundation.

 

 

  Bruce Pascoe, Found

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