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Bush Tucker Counting

Join two tiddas as they spend the day collecting delicious bush tucker to put in their coolamon.

Bush Tucker Counting by Maureen Glover is a beautiful board book filled with cheerful watercolour illustrations by Gabrielle Fry depicting various bush tucker from the North of Australia. This book introduces early childhood readers to education concepts such as ordinal numbers, adjectives and alliteration.

Bush Tucker Counting is a great introduction to reading and counting for young children.

$14.99

Praise for Bush Tucker Counting

“...Maureen’s happy prose as they collect witchetty grubs and more are beautifully illustrated by Dagoman woman Gabrielle Fry.”
The Australian Women's Weekly

Maureen Glover

Maureen Glover is descended from the Budjalung  people of northern New South Wales. She is a mother of one, and has worked in education in Brisbane as an early childhood teacher and teacher librarian for the last 26 years. While...

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Gabrielle Fry

Gabrielle Fry is a Dagoman woman from the Katherine region and grew up in remote Aboriginal communities across the Northern Territory. Gabrielle has always been passionate about art and has expressed her creativity through different forms of medium including illustration,...

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