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Maggie and her mother await the long anticipated apology to the Stolen Generations. In the crowd Maggie loses touch of her mother's hand and is lost.

In a time 'long ago and not so long ago' children were taken from their parents, their 'sorrow echoing across the land'.

As the Prime Minister's speech unfolds Maggie is reunited with her mother. But the faces and memories of the stolen generation are all around them.

Two stories entwine in this captivating retelling of the momentous day when Australia acknowledged the sorrows of past.

Coral Vass - Is an award-winning Australian Children’s Author with several books published with Scholastic Books Australia, National Library of Australia and Penguin Random House Australia.

Coral loves to visit schools, often running writing workshops and inspiring young people with a love for literature. She is an ambassador for Reading Out of Poverty and is passionate about giving all children an equal opportunity to read.

With a background in Media, Coral has always had a passion for telling stories and inspiring children with a love for literature. She dabbled in script writing, radio drama and video production, before working a decade in marketing and publications.

Born in Sydney Australia, Coral spent her early years in Bangladesh. She has also lived in Queensland, Japan and currently resides by the beach in Melbourne, Victoria with her husband and four children.

Her signature writing style has a splash of rhythm, a dash of rhyme and is stirred with fun! As well as children's books, Coral loves dark chocolate, good coffee, the theatre and the beach.

My name is Dub Leffler. I’m a Bigambul and Mandandanji Aboriginal man, and I think of myself as a storyteller and illustration of books as my medium. The way I grew up was white. I was adopted by a white family but I always knew I had Aboriginal heritage. When I was 25 I started tracking down my birth family and discovered that there was a whole file about me. It said, “the baby is a most attractive child and darkish, but not markedly Aboriginal-looking in appearance.” It was this clinical diagnosis about how Aboriginal I don’t look. This identity, of being both black and white, it’s my passport. I sometimes feel like I’m an undercover brother because I can speak from both sides – from white and black - and that’s a privilege, that’s a powerful thing.

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