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South Melbourne, Vic. : Lothian Books, 2002. When Tran's mother goes far away to Vietnam, his grandmother shows him something very special - a wishing cupboard. To cheer him up she shares her past wishes and lets him make one of his own. Behind the two big doors were more doors. As the drawers are opened, will the wishes come true? || || We Came to Australia Series This is part of a colourful series of six books looking at Australian migrants and their reasons for immigrating. See below for other excellent titles in the series. They are no longer in print but are no doubt on the shelves of many school libraries. They try to give an even-handed account of immigrant stories and the responses of different sectors of the Australian community. || || We Came to Australia Series ||  || We Came to Australia Series || || This is part of a series of eight books looking at different cultural groups in Australia and their family customs. || || Tian and her family make a special glass bouquet to place on their father's grave. Some years before, he had left Vietnam on a ship bound for wider, browner lands, but never came home. Based on a true event from the 1940s, || || Ali was a magician in his homeland.He could make things disappear as if by magic. Incarcerated in a detention centre after his journey to Australia as an asylum seeker, he waits for his opportunity to make himself disappear from the prison. A book to start discussion and speculation. || || Frenchs Forest, N.S.W. : New Frontier Publishing, 2009, c2007. Told from the viewpoint of a young child, this short picture book describes the experiences of a refugee mother and daughter from an Islamic country who arrive in Australia on a crowded boat and are finally reseased from the detention centre. It makes no judgement of the process but concentrates instead on the feelings of the little girl and her own feelings as a "true person". || || South Melbourne, Australia : Lothian Books, 2004. This award-winning novel, written by an author who has lived in Pakistan and is familiar with Afghan people and their plight, is about a refugee family who come to live in a suburb of Adelaide, South Australia. The little girl, Soraya, expresses herself by writing stories. Many of them are incidents from the Tales of the Arabian Nights, told to her by the elderly friend who looks after her when her mother is suffering from deep depression. The tale of the princess escaping from her demon enemy by flying away on a big, black horse runs parallel to Soraya's family's own experiences, and yet she cannot write about the terrible things that have happened to her father, older sister and brothers. Interspersed with these stories are accounts of her life at school and her relationships with peers and with neighbours in the street. Slowly Soraya begins to heal, until she can complete the writing of her own experiences. A beautifully-crafted novel with a high emotional impact when the context and writing techniques are explained to the class. || || South Melbourne, Vic. : Lothian, 2004. Hilly and her younger brother Gregory are shipped to Australia at the end of 1952 as part of the British child migrant scheme. They have no clear idea of where Australia is but they believe that they are going to good foster homes, with lots of sunshine and fruit that they can pick off trees. When Hilly finds herself separated from her brother in Western Australia and placed in a forbiddding orphanage in South Australia, she decides to appeal to the Queen for help. Ruth Starke's painstaking research for this moving book involved exmining records and interviews in the State archives. It gives this book a chilling ring of truth. || ||
 * The wishing cupboard / Libby Hathorn ; [illustrated by] Elizabeth Stanley
 * Looking for family / Christine Mulvany, Lucy CarrollSouth Yarra, Vic. : Macmillan Education, 2003.
 * Looking for freedom / Christine Mulvany, Lucy Carroll. South Yarra, Vic. : Macmillan Education, 2003.
 * Looking for peace / Christine Mulvany, Lucy Carroll.South Yarra, Vic. : Macmillan Education, 2003.
 * Irish Australians / Al Grassby and Marji Hill. South Yarra, Vic. : Macmillan Education Australia, 2000.
 * Glass tears / written by Jane Jolly ; illustrated by Di WuWilloughby, N.S.W. : Rainbow Dragon Publishing, 2008.
 * Ali the Bold Heart / written by Jane Jolly ; illustrated by Elise Hurst. Balmain, N.S.W. : Limelight Press, 2006.
 * A true person / written by Gabiann Marin ; illustrated by Jacqui Grantford.
 * Soraya the storyteller / Rosanne Hawke ; [illusrations, by Neil Curtis].
 * Orphans of the queen / Ruth Starke

Child migration from Europe between 1913 and 1968

From Europe to Australia – Records of a postwar migrant family
From the National Archives of Australia

__Stories of Post World War Two Migrant families__
From the National Archives of Australia

Primary sources about Lebanese migration from the NSW Archives

> = **Notable Twentieth-Century Australians from Non-English-speaking Backgrounds** =
 * **Film clip of Bonegilla, the centre in Victoria to which migrant families arriving in Australia were taken as their first place of stay**
 * **Film clip of children playing at Bonegilla**
 * **Film clip of a Greek family preparing Easter food and celebrating Easter in Sydney**
 * ====**Film clip of a young, articulate Muslim woman explaining where Islam stands on honour killings, genital mutilation, education and rights of women**====
 * === [] Compass program about education in a Muslim school, showing several schools in New South Wales, especially one where a Year 6 class is having lessons in parliamentary procedures ===
 * Film clip about immigrants working on the railway from Dampier to Tom Price in Western Australia in 1965
 * Film clip about immigrants working on the railway from Dampier to Tom Price in Western Australia in 1965
 * "Dr Karl" Kruszelnicki, Karl Kruszelnicki AM is a scientist, who is best known as an author and science commentator on Australian radio and television. He is often referred to as Dr Karl. He holds degrees in mathematics, biomedical engineering, medicine and surgery.
 * **Soccer player El Masri**.
 * === Peter Singer, philosopher who has influenced the world ===
 * === Edouard Borovansky, pioneer of Australian ballet. ===
 * === Sidney Myer, founder of the Myer stores in Australia ===
 * === Helena Rubinstein, cosmetics manufacturer ===
 * ===Harry Seidler, architect and designer of Australia Square, Sydney===
 * === Gustav Nossal, Research biologist ===
 * === Victor Chang,heart surgeon ===
 * === Kostya Tszyu, boxer ===
 * === Jelena Dokic, tennis player ===
 * === [|Louise Sauvage, paralympian] ===
 * === Tatiana Grigorieva, pole vaulter ===
 * ====**Mr Hieu Van Le AO Lieutenant Governor of South Australia and Governor of South Australia from 2014**====
 * ===Marie Bashir, Governor of New South Wales===
 * ===Munjed Al Muderis, world authority on osseointegration**,** which integrates artificial limbs into the bodies of amutees. The article behind the link describes the experiences of a boy who received an artificial leg from Dr Al Muderis. More about Dr Al Muderis is available from ABC websites, and from Dr Al Muderis's own memoir, "Walking Free" published 2014.===
 * ===Munjed Al Muderis, world authority on osseointegration**,** which integrates artificial limbs into the bodies of amutees. The article behind the link describes the experiences of a boy who received an artificial leg from Dr Al Muderis. More about Dr Al Muderis is available from ABC websites, and from Dr Al Muderis's own memoir, "Walking Free" published 2014.===


 * ===== F GLE – Gleitzman, Moritz, “Girl underground” and “Boy Overboard” are the experiences of Middle Eastern Muslim refugees in detention centres, told with humour and pace. =====
 * Kidd, Diana, “The Day Grandma Came to Stay and Spoilt my Life”. Lucy’s Grandmother from Italy brings all her Italian customs with her when she visits the family in Australia. Bring along your pasta machine as a delicious follow-up activity.
 * F SYM – Syme, Marguerite Hann, “Chickpea”. Set in Adelaide, this little novel is about an Iranian boy whose widowed father will not let him have a pet, until he relents and lets him have a pet chicken.
 * F ELL Ellis, Deborah, “Parvana”. An Afghan girl has to disguise herself as a boy to shop for food for her family under the eyes of the Taliban..
 * F MOL Moloney, James, “Dougy” and “Gracey”. An Aboriginal family in these two novels shows tenacity in battling poverty and prejudice. “Dougy” is especially gripping. The boy has to rescue someone from rising floodwaters inside a house.
 * F BOW – Bowles, Colin, “Surfing Mr Petrovic”. Group pressure to vandalise the roses in old Mr Petrovic’s garden forces Symo to assess his own values and
 * F HIL – Hill, Anthony, “The Burnt Stick”. Describes a typical incident that must have taken place many times when Aboriginal children of the Stolen Generation were taken from their mothers.
 * F NIC – Nicholson, John, “Kimberley Warrior”. This true story (not fiction as catalogued) is about an Aboriginal activist in nineteenth-century Western Australia, who becomes a criminal outlaw. It makes compelling reading.
 * F HAW – Hawke, Rosanne, “Soraya the Storyteller”. An Afghan refugee girl in Adelaide must cope with her mother’s depression as well as with memories of terrible experiences in Afghanistan. With the help of friends she recovers her skills of story-writing. An award-winning novel set in Adelaide. Rosanne Hawk lives at Kapunda and visits schools.
 * Laird, Elizabeth, “Kiss the Dust”. This book is about a Kurdish refugee family escaping across the mountains from Iraq to Iran and then going to England. (Saddam Hussein tried to exterminate them as an act of ethnic cleansing.) There are plenty of Kurdish refugees living in Adelaide and the Refugee Association can arrange visits to schools.
 * Li Cunxin – “Mao’s Last Dancer” The Chinese ballet dancer who escaped from Chinese communism to live in the west, ultimately he became part of the Australian Ballet and married an Australian dancer. There is a picture-book version as well as the longer autobiography.
 * 792.80 CUN – Cunxin, Li, “The Peasant Prince”. The true story of the Chinese boy who became a ballet dancer with the Australian Ballet, told in picture book format.
 * F STA - Starke, Ruth, "NIPS XI" and "NIPS Go National". Lan, whose parents came as refugees from Vietnam, wants to form a cricket team of players from non-Anglo backgrounds to challenge the neighbouring school to a match on Multicultural Day. Told with gentle humour, this book gives an insight into the challenges and prejudices faced by children of non-English-speaking backgrounds, and at the same time it provides an understanding of the game of cricket in its historical context as an export of the British Empire.
 * F STA - Starke, Ruth, "Noodle Pie". In this humorous story a boy and his father return to Vietnam to visit the father's family. This is a large cultural experience for the boy, who helps his cousin promote and develop the family's humble cafe to attract western tourists.

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