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'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 ...'
(Source: publisher's blurb)
Publication Details of Only Known VersionEarliest 2 Known Versions of
Works about this Work
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Cover Book Review : Dry to Dry
2020
single work
review
— Appears in: Magpies : Talking About Books for Children , July vol. 35 no. 3 2020; (p. 24)
— Review of Dry To Dry : The Seasons Of Kakadu 2020 single work picture book'It is the Dry.
'Over the plains and cliffs and rivers of Kakadu, in northern Australia, the air hangs heavy.
'It's hot and very humid.
'So begins the narrative of a journey into Kakadu in which readers are transported to Australia's largest national park and immersed in the cycle of seasons from the Dry, to the Wet and back again...' (Introduction)
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Cover Book Review : Dry to Dry
2020
single work
review
— Appears in: Magpies : Talking About Books for Children , July vol. 35 no. 3 2020; (p. 24)
— Review of Dry To Dry : The Seasons Of Kakadu 2020 single work picture book'It is the Dry.
'Over the plains and cliffs and rivers of Kakadu, in northern Australia, the air hangs heavy.
'It's hot and very humid.
'So begins the narrative of a journey into Kakadu in which readers are transported to Australia's largest national park and immersed in the cycle of seasons from the Dry, to the Wet and back again...' (Introduction)
Awards
- 2021 commended Whitley Awards — Children's Introduction to Ecology
- 2021 shortlisted Educational Publishing Awards Australia — Primary — Educational Picture or Chapter Book
- 2021 winner CBCA Book of the Year Awards — Eve Pownall Award for Information Books
- 2021 CBCA Book of the Year Awards — Notable Book — Eve Pownall Award