NAIDOC Week with Jade Goodwin

In celebration of NAIDOC Week, join illustrator Jade Goodwin as she reads her new picture book, Earthspeak: Boodjar Wangkiny, in a special digital event for students.

Students will also participate in a live drawing session and have the chance to ask Jade about being a published illustrator. 

Earthspeak is a joyful story celebrating the natural world, the sharing of culture through Noongar language and the awe that comes from seeing, hearing and feeling how elemental forces shape the earth. 

Papa says we're going to a special place today. 
'If we djinang (look), ni (listen), goordoo (feel), we might hear boodjar wangkiny (earth speak). We might even feel her heartbeat.' 
I wonder what that will sound like? Will the earth's heart beat just like ours? 
 
A bush walk in a stunning landscape becomes a heartfelt invitation for children to engage with their senses, care for the environment, and learn some Noongar language words along the way. 

MoAD Learning is delighted to bring these engaging digital experiences to classrooms, fostering a love of learning and cultivating the next generation of civically minded young people. 

We are excited to collaborate with Allen and Unwin for the digital event. Copies of Earthspeak are available here. 

About Jade Goodwin 

Jade Goodwin is a First Nations illustrator with curly brown hair and a big imagination. When she was a little girl, she loved spending time in her grandparents' screen-printing studio, creating all sorts of fun things with an endless amount of paper, pencils and sticky tape. 

Jade loves bringing imagination to life through her bright and sweet illustrations and is the illustrator of the Little Ash, Yarn Quest and Tennis Camp Diaries series, Ash Barty's picture book My Dream for You, and a picture book written by Charlotte Barkla, Let's Try Again Another Day, with plenty more books in progress. Visit Jade's website and her YouTube channel.