Gathers poems about Australian animals, in English and in the Aboriginal language

Jalygurr: Aussie Animal Rhymes

Torres, Pat

Children's Books

Magabala Books

From her mission upbringing, Glenyse Ward is sent to work as a domestic in a wealthy Western Australian farming district. This is a personal account of Aboriginal experience, an honest account of injustice.

WANDERING GIRL

Ward, Glenyse

Outback Cowboys: Raparapa

Biographies & Memoirs

From a master storyteller, this book links personal discovery to a sense of nature. It restores us to a wisdom that is at once powerful and fresh. Includes reproductions of bark paintings and artworks.

Story About Feeling

Politics & Social Sciences

Neidjie, Bill

Social Sciences

Illustrated with traditional Aboriginal dot form and contemporary images, this is a poetry collection from an elder of the Wunambal people. The poems are juxtaposed with the story of the author's life. The illustrator is a writer and artist of other children's books and has worked in Aboriginal education.

Do Not Go Round the Edges

Utemorrah, Daisy

This book describes some of the features of life in the desert as told or shown by people who once lived here. Where there has been no real change the present tense is used. For accuracy, however, when life is described as it was lived by nomadic bands before they settles the past is used. The desert language in the text is Walmajarri.

Jilji: Life in the Great Sandy desert

History

Pat Lowe

Jeremy Pike

Australia & Oceania

Lori

WILSON, JOHN

Literature & Fiction

Roughtail : the dreaming of the roughtail lizard and other stories told by the Kukatja

Greene, Gracie

The Dream

Harris, Rae

A Boy's Life

Davis, Jack

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