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Open Your Heart to Country

Open Your Heart to Country

Open your heart to Country book cover.

Written and illustrated by: Jasmine Seymour.

Welcome home lost children

To land singing you back home

Listen to its language

Learn how to speak its song

Told in English and Dharug, OPEN YOUR HEART TO COUNTRY is a moving account of reconnection to Country from a First Nations perspective. Sharing the nourishing power of returning home and being immersed in the language of Country, this picture book invites readers to reflect on the importance of place, not only for First Nations’ peoples but for everyone.

With exquisite illustrations and soft, lilting text, OPEN YOUR HEART TO COUNTRY appeals to the very young, while sharing a deeper message for older readers. A book the whole family can enjoy. (From GoodReads.)

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Jasmine Seymour is a Dharug woman and descendant of Maria Lock, who was the daughter of Yarramundi, the Boorooberongal elder who had met Governor Phillip on the banks of the Hawkesbury River in 1791.

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