BEACH SONG

A beautiful, expressive story that celebrates a child's love of the beach.

When I duck and dive through the towering waves I see what the dolphin sees - seaweed that sways in the rush and ebb of the ocean's rolling swell. I leap like the dolphin leaps. When I ride the thunder of a foamy crest, I see what the seal sees - the lunge of the sea and a torrent of froth that spins its swirls of white in the blue. I surf like the seal surfs. A meditative and lyrical text that celebrates how the natural world can cue feelings and emotions from the bestselling author of 10 Scared Fish and Kangaroos Hop and the highly acclaimed illustrator of Bidhi Galing. Ros Moriarty has spent most of her professional life as creative and managing director of Australia's leading Indigenous design studio, Balarinji, a business she established with her husband in 1983. Balarinji has fostered the careers of Indigenous artists and designers from all over Australia, and has returned royalties to NT artists since 1995. Ros also co-founded the not-for-profit Moriarty Foundation, which includes Indi Kindi, a ground- breaking early years solution for children under five in remote Aboriginal communities. Author of eight books for very young readers, the acclaimed memoir Listening to Country, and an Indigenous colouring-in book, Colouring Country. Samantha Campbell is descended from the Dagoman people from Katherine and as a child lived in remote Aboriginal communities across the Top End. Samantha studied Graphic Design in Melbourne and worked as a freelance Graphic Designer for four years before illustrating her first children's book, Alfred's War. Since then, she has illustrated numerous picture books including Freedom Day, Aunty's Wedding and My Deadly Boots.