On World Refugee Day we commemorate the strength, courage and perseverance of millions of refugees. This year, World Refugee Day also marks a key moment for the public to show support for families forced to flee.
Picture Books
The colour of home by Mary Hoffman
The little refugee by Anh Do with Suzanne Do, illustrated by Bruce Whatley
A safe place to live written and illustrated by Bic Walker
The treasure box by Margaret Wild
A true person by Gabiann Marin, illustrated by Jacqui Grantford
Junior Fiction
The Arrival by Shaun Tan
Azzi in Between written and illustrated by Sarah Garland
Then by Morris Gleitzman
Boy overboard by Morris Gleitzman
Mohammed’s journey : a refugee diary by Anthony Robinson and Annemarie Young, illustrated by June Allen
Refugee by Jackie French
The silver sword by Ian Serraillier
The un-forgotten coat by Frank Cottrell Boyce
Teenage Fiction
After by Morris Gleitzman
The ink bridge by Neil Grant
On two feet : one boy’s amazing story of survival by Abbas Kazerooni
Shooting Kabul by N.H. Senzai
Fiction
Above the Starry Frame by Helen Townsend
A Band of Steel by Rosie Goodwin
Lightning by Felicity Volk
The orchard of lost souls by Nadifa Mohamed
Ru by Kim Thuy
The shadow girls by Henning Mankell
Transactions by Ali Alizadeh
Non-Fiction
The boy who wouldn’t die by David Nyuol Vincent and Carol Nader
Frontier justice : The global refugee crisis and what to do about it by Andy Lamey
Keeping hope alive : how one Somalian woman changed 90000 lives by Hawa Abdi with Sarah J. Robbins
Out of Iraq : refugees’ stories in words, paintings and music by Sybella Wilkes
Overboard : you would not believe what really triggered Australia’s controversial policy on boat people by Ghassan Nakhoul
Romulus my father by Raimond Gaita
The rugmaker of Mazar-e-Sharif by Najaf Mazari and Robert Hillman
They poured fire on us from the sky : the true story of three lost boys from Sudan by Alephonsion Deng, Benson Deng, Benjamin Ajak with Judy A. Bernstein
Watching brief by Julian Burnside
DVDs
TELEVISION PROGRAMS
Go back to where you came from (2011) Ivan O’Mahoneym and Ronan Sharkey
Go back to where you came from (series 2) (2012) Angry Anderson and Allan Asher
Once upon a time in Cabramatta (2012)
DOCUMENTARY FILMS
Between the devil & the deep blue sea (2011)
Chasing assylum (2016)
Once my mother (2013)
FEATURE FILMS (MOVIES)
The good lie (2014)
The idol (2015)
The last Goldfish (2017)
Safe harbour (2017)