Environment & Sustainability
“The river’s rhythm runs through my veins. Runs through my people’s veins.”
— We are the Water Protectors by Carole Lindstrom and illustrated by Michaela Goade.
Pamela Freeman & Liz Anelli
By Pamela Freeman
Illustrated by Liz Anelli
It's raining up north and soon everything will change for the desert lake. Desert Lake is now in paperback! The dry salt bed of Kati Thanda-Lake Eyre shimmers in the desert heat. But far up north, the rains have come. Water is flooding into empty riverbeds and swirling down towards the lake. Soon everything will change. A wonderful new addition to the acclaimed and award-winning Nature Storybook series, which provides memorable reading experiences, combining narrative and factual forms.
By Pamela Freeman
Illustrated by Liz Anelli
This Nature Storybook follow-up to the award-winning Desert Lake is a stunningly illustrated and extraordinary story of the yearly weather cycle and attendant changing wildlife of Kakadu National Park, from the Dry to the Wet to the Dry again.
In the tropical wetlands and escarpments of Kakadu National Park, the seasons move from dry to wet to dry again. Those seasons have shaped the astonishing variety of plants, animals, birds, insects ... migratory birds by the thousands, grasshoppers and owls, lizards and turtles, fruit bats and spear grass. And, gliding past them all in the rivers and waterholes, the long, sinuous shapes of crocodiles ...
Dry to Dry: The Seasons of Kakadu by Pamela Freeman and Liz Anelli winner of the Eve Pownall Award 2021
