Written by award-winning and bestselling author Helen Milroy, this is a richly woven story about courage and adventure.
Calla is born with a precious gift - she can talk to the dingoes. It is her special job to learn their ways and to look after them. But when new people come to her land, Calla and her family are forced to move away from her beloved dingoes.
Meanwhile, one of Calla's favourite dingoes, a cheeky little pup named Chichi, escapes from danger through a special cave. When he emerges in a different time and place and is befriended by a young girl named Sunny, she takes him to meet her grandmother, and discover that they already know each other - Sunny's grandmother is Calla! Together they work to get the dingoes safely back to country.
This is a perfect introduction for primary students toFirst Nations culture and knowledge.
This story is about the connection with dingoes, and in particular the story of Calla, her granddaughter Sunny, and a dingo named Chichi.
Calla always felt at home with the dingoes and did all she could to protect and look after them, but then she was forced to move away from them.
Chichi sought refuge in a cave, but this was not just an ordinary place, as he was about to find out, it gave him the power to be invisible!
Many years later, Calla’s granddaughter Sunny comes across Chichi, and she names him Shadow. Shadow thought that Sunny looked familiar, but at first, he does not realise the connection.
As Shadow and Sunny start to spend more and more time together, the story of Shadow’s past starts to be told. Could it really be the same dingo from her grandmother’s time?
This will be enjoyed by emerging and middle primary readers.
Teacher notes prepared by the publisher are available on our website for this title.