1. Cultural diversity
2. Darwin (NT Top End SD52-04)
3. Fishing
4. Homeless persons
5. Indigenous knowledge
6. Landscapes
7. Literary devices
8. Sharing
9. Storytelling
10. Traditional ecological knowledge

In this picture book, old Uncle Tobias goes fishing every morning, helped by two young boys aged around seven or eight years of age. Using traditional Aboriginal techniques, they catch a range of sea creatures, including skinnyfish and stingrays. When it rains, they take shelter under a bridge with a group of Indigenous ‘long-grass’ people, who sleep out on the foreshore reserves on Darwin’s urban fringe. The boys listen to Uncle Tobias’ stories of times past and later join a multicultural crowd on the beach. While the two boys are happy to move between the two worlds, Uncle Tobias stays away.

Each spread features one-two sentences of lyrical text that evoke the colours, feel and smell of the landscape. The vibrant illustrations are alive with movement and human interaction. Author Leonie Norrington grew up in the Barunga Aboriginal community, south of Katherine in the Northern Territory. Dee Huxley is a well-known children’s picture book illustrator based in Sydney.

1. Teacher Book Notes 'You and Me: Our Place' by Leonie Norrington, Illustrated by Dee Huxley http://www.scool.scholastic.com.au/schoolzone/toolkit/assets/pdfs/You%20and%20Me%20Our%20Place.pdf
2. Global Words. Indigenous Peoples: Stories to Unite Us. 'You and Me: Our Place'. http://globalwords.edu.au/units/Indigenous_JPY3_4_html/index.html
3. Pollard, Kellie. ‘Contested spaces: the ‘long-grassers’.living private lives in public places’. The Conversation. https://theconversation.com/contested-spaces-the-long-grassers-living-private-lives-in-public-places-72199