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|author=Mandi Kujawa and Claude St Aubin
|title=Jacqueline the Singing Crow
|rating=4
|genre=Emerging Readers
|summary=Meet Jacqueline the crow. She's perfectly happy up in Canada, with a whole forest of trees to choose from, enough to eat, and a whole sky into which she can thrust her birdsong in celebration. She has, in fact, a lot to crow about. Until she hears humans talk of her as drably black, dumb, and ugly to both look at and to hear. What she chooses to do as a response is a surprise worth discovering in this large format picture book.
|amazonuk=<amazonuk>0992150876</amazonuk>
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|author=Clive Gifford and Professor Anil Seth
|summary=Mere mortals relax by having a game of footy of a weekend and a couple of drinks, but what does a professional sportsman do to cut loose? What do they do when they go out en masse? Investigative journalist Anna Krien looks at a rape trial of an Australian Rules footballer, just into his twenties and follows the case as it goes to court, interviewing some of those directly or indirectly involved and digressing into related areas. In deference to the fact that the woman had automatic anonymity she's chosen to give the man who was charged the name of 'Justin' in an attempt to level the playing field, so to speak. You could Google the facts and come up with the correct name, but this isn't a book of gossip about particular people. It's an investigation of a culture which has increasingly treated women as sexual commodities.
|amazonuk=<amazonuk>0224100033</amazonuk>
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