Kangaroos Hop

Simple, intelligent, bright and cheerful, this early childhood concept book introduces animal names and verbs and celebrates indigenous art in a joyous, non-didactic and playful way.

Kangaroos Hop helps children identify favourite Australian animals in the Australian landscape. The kangaroos hop, the butterflies fly, the echidnas shuffle across the land and down to the water's edge where a sleepy crocodile lies … Shhhh! The lively illustrations and cumulative text help readers identify animals as well as verbs.

Awards

• Shortlisted, 2013 Environment Awards for Children's Literature
• Shortlisted, 2012 Speech Pathology Australia Book of the Year Award for Indigenous Children

About the author

Ros Moriarty, formerly a journalist with Radio Australia in Indigenous affairs, women's issues and the environment, has spent most of her professional life as managing director of Australia's leading Indigenous design studio, Balarinji, a business she established with husband John Moriarty in 1983. Balarinji is best known for covering Qantas 747 aircraft in Indigenous art. During 27 years of delivering groundbreaking projects, including the Emu Dreaming tutu for the Australian Ballet's 40th birthday and the Hands across the Land poster for the 2000 Sydney Harbour Bridge Walk for Reconciliation, the company has fostered the careers of a large number of Indigenous artists and designers from all over Australia, and returned royalties to NT artists since 1995. Ros Moriarty is the author of an acclaimed memoir, Listening to Country, and founder of a non-profit organisation, Indi Kindi, supporting pre-literacy education.