â? ¢Longlisted for the CBCA 2020 Eve Pownall Award for Information Booksâ? ¢ â? ¢Shortlisted for the 2020 NSW Premier's Literary Awards Patricia Wrightson Prize for Children's Literatureâ? ¢ â? ¢Shortlisted for the ABIA Book of the Year for Younger Children (ages 7-12)â? ¢ â? ¢Shortlisted for the Indie Book Awards 2020: Children'sâ? ¢ â? ¢Shortlisted for the Booksellers' Choice 2020 Children's Book of the Year Awardâ? ¢ Age range 10+. The highly-anticipated junior version of Bruce Pascoe's multi award-winning book. Bruce Pascoe has collected a swathe of literary awards for Dark Emu and now he has brought together the research and compelling first person accounts in a book for younger readers. Using the accounts of early European explorers, colonists and farmers, Bruce Pascoe compellingly argues for a reconsideration of the hunter-gatherer label for pre-colonial Aboriginal Australians. He allows the reader to see Australia as it was before Europeans arrived - a land of cultivated farming areas, productive fisheries, permanent homes, and an understanding of the environment and its natural resources that supported thriving villages across the continent. Young Dark Emu - A Truer History asks young readers to consider a different version of Australia's history pre-European colonisation. Bruce uses the diaries of early explorers and colonists to show us the Australia where Aboriginal people built houses, dams and wells and farmed the land.' - Fiona Stager, The Courier Mail Author: Bruce Pascoe. Format: Paperback