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A beach for us to play: Deadly Reads for Deadly Readers (Saltwater Series)

SHORTLISTED – 2013 Speech Pathology of Australia Book of the Year Awards (Indigenous Children category)

Have fun with Maggie and her family on their beach adventure. One of the first four books in a series of levelled readers.The series has been carefully designed to provide young Indigenous and non-Indigenous children with engaging, enjoyable and meaningful experiences with print that will support their reading skills and their desire to read.

$5.95
Nola Turner-Jensen

NOLA is the author of two of Magabala’s Deadly Reads for Deadly Readers series: I Have and A beach for us to play, and the children’s book The Sugarbag.

Nola is an Aboriginal woman from Wiradjuri country in NSW. She is...

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Maggie Prewett

Maggie Prewett is a descendent of the Ngarluma people of the Pilbara region of Western Australia. She grew up in Perth, and studied Design and Illustration at Perth Technical College. 

From an early age, art and literature were encouraged, thereby...

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Other titles by Nola Turner-Jensen

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Deadly Reads for Deadly Readers Book Set (4-pack)

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The Sugarbag

Nola Turner-Jensen Dub Leffler

Other titles by Maggie Prewett

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Two Mates

Melanie Prewett Maggie Prewett
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Mrs White and the Red Desert

Josie Wowolla Boyle Maggie Prewett
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Deadly Reads for Deadly Readers Book Set (4-pack)

Magabala Books Nola Turner-Jensen Dub Leffler Maggie Prewett
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The Grumpy Lighthouse Keeper

Terrizita Corpus Maggie Prewett
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The Old Frangipani Tree at Flying Fish Point

Trina Saffioti Maggie Prewett