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Dreamtime : aboriginal stories
—Oodgeroo Noonuccal, 1920-1993, author.
1994

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Summary: Oodgeroo spent her child hood with her family on Stradbroke Island, off the Queensland coast. The first half of this book, Stories from Stradbroke, describes espisodes from her childhood days - some happy, some sad - and gives a memorable impression of life on the island and of a family proud of its Aboriginal heritage. The second part of the book, Stories from the Old and New Dreamtime, is made up of Aboriginal folklore which Oodgeroo recaled hearing as a child and of new stories written in traditional Aboriginal forms.

Item Details

ISBN:

  • 9780688132965
  • 0688132960

Edition: First edition.

Description: 95 pages : color illustrations ; 29 cm

Other Title: Stradbroke dreamtime

Notes: First published in Australia by Angus and Robertson [in 1972] as Stradbroke dreamtime"--T.p. verso.

Contents:

  • Stradbroke
  • Kill to eat
  • Shark
  • The Tank
  • Where's mother?
  • Going crabbing
  • The Left-hander
  • Carpet snake
  • Family council
  • Repeat exercise
  • Mumma's pet
  • Not our day
  • Dugong coming!
  • The Beginning of life
  • Biami and bunyip
  • Mirrabooka
  • The Midden
  • Burr-nong
  • Wonga and Nudu
  • Curlew
  • Oodgeroo
  • Tuggan-Tuggan
  • Talwalpin and Kowinka
  • Pomera
  • Tia-gam-- Boonah
  • Mai.

LCCN: 93079375

Control Number: 52800

Publisher: New York : Lothrop, Lee and Shepard Books, 1994.
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