BOORI MONTY PRYOR: AUSTRALIA'S CHILDREN'S LAUREATE 2012-13From pizza shop to bora ground, here is a joyous celebration of food, dance and cultural understanding.When three young boys go to a pizza parlour and meet an Aboriginal chef who can speak Italian and make a deadly pizza, they're in for a surprise!All you fellas watching, come up, join in, warrima.Clap your hands, little ones.Stamp your feet, nannas.Get down and dance, you smart young things, mummas and daddas.Let's get the whole town dancing!Boori Monty Pryor is a storyteller, dancer, writer and educator, and Jan Ormerod is an internationally acclaimed picture-book author and illustrator. This glorious book is the first one they have cooked up together.

 

There are 32 pages in this book. This is a picture book. A picture book uses pictures and text to tell the story. The number of words varies from zero ('wordless') to around 1k over 32 pages. Picture books are typically aimed at young readers (age 3-6) but can also be aimed at older children (7+). This book was published 2011 by Allen & Unwin .

Jan Ormerod is the author and/or illustrator of more than 50 books for children. She lives in England. Meme McDonald is a graduate of Victoria College of the Arts Drama School. She began her career as a theater and festival director, specializing in creating large-scale outdoor performance events. Since then she has worked as a multi-award-winning writer, photographer, and on film projects. Boori Monty Pryor is a multi-talented performer who has worked in film, television, modeling, sports, music and theater-in-education. Boori was Australia's inaugural Children's Laureate in 2012 and 2013.