ISBN: 9781922864345
Blackgum Item Code: NSWB0861
Title: In the Kelp Forest
Author: Aunty Patsy Cameron
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RRP: $28.99
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An exceptionally stunning picture book that explores the beauty and strength of Country beneath the waves and celebrates the living kelp forests, their creatures, and deep cultural knowledge of Tasmania s First Nations people. Kelp forests have intricate lives and play a key role in the balance of our oceans and seas.
Myerlee, the giant kelp, sways beneath the waves, her forests alive with creatures that make her their home. Myerlee lives with the elements, shelters life, provides sustanence to those on the land and in the ocean and whispers her secrets to those who will listen. Discover the wonders of the ocean and ancient connections that sustain all life.

Aunty Patsy Cameron grew up on Flinders Island and can trace her Aboriginal heritage through her mother s line to four Ancestral grandmothers; Pleenpereener, Wyerlooberer, Teekoolterme and Pollerelbrener. Teekoolterme s father, the revered Mannalargenna was a Pairrebeenne/Trawlwoolway Clan leader, and was a formidable warrior and seer. Patsy has a Master of Arts in Tasmanian Aboriginal History, an Honorary Doctor of Letters from the University of Tasmania, inducted onto the Tasmanian Women s Honour roll (2006) and was invested with an Officer of the Order of Australia (AO)(2017).