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Temporarily out of stock
Title: Mooie’s Stories
Author: KNEEBONE-DODSON, ROS
Format: HARDCOVER
Publication date: 01/05/2023
Imprint: ABORIGINAL STUDIES PRESS
Price: $24.95
Publishing status: Active
Age range 5 to 10
Dja Dja Wurrung Ancestors stories as told to me by my mother, my grandmother, my great-grandmother and my great-great-grandmother before her.
How did Wabbee, the freshwater crayfish, get its bright red spots? Why does Wehla, the ringtail possum, have a curly tail?
How were Waripi Yaluk, the backwaters of Bulatjal Yaluk Woodlar, the Loddon River, formed? Why does Yern, the moon, light up the night sky? Bunjil, the all-powerful, knows the answers.
BurWhela Ros Kneebone-Dodson learned these kiki these stories of Malamiyayu Gurang, the Dreamtime from her mother, Mooie. BurWhela s words and images bring to vivid life these stories of her Ngurar Gurrk, her Ancestors, from Djandak, the Country of the Loddon River of Central Victoria.
Our storytelling teaches how to live in harmony, how to care for and preserve the land and all living on it. It is lore for living . Burwhela Ros Kneebone-Dodson
ISBN: 9780855751258
Weight: 220gr
Dimension: 250mm X 230mm
Pages: 32