Shirley Purdie: My Story, Ngaginybe Jarragbe Place is an invitation to yana

is an invitation to yana (walk)

and it is an exciting and violent story of anti-colonial revenge and roaming adventure

Sad and lonely at the end of the day

looked away to protect their eyes from the flying dust

The reader is taken on a journey through historic Indigenous rights battles such as the Noonkanbah blockade in 1979

Shirley Purdie: My Story, Ngaginybe Jarragbe Place is an invitation to yanaSHORTLISTED, 2021 WESTERN AUSTRALIAN PREMIERS BOOK AWARDS, WRITING FOR CHILDREN SHORTLISTED, 2021 CHILDREN'S BOOK COUNCIL OF AUSTRALIA BOOK OF THE YEAR AWARDS, NEW ILLUSTRATOR AWARD NOTABLES, 2021 CHILDREN'S BOOK COUNCIL OF AUSTRALIA BOOK OF THE YEAR AWARDS, EVE POWNALL AWARD Told in English and Gija, this is Shirley Purdie's life story, depicted alongside her stunning paintings. In My Story, Ngaginybe Jarragbe, Shirley shares vignettes of her life