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| Author | : Catherine Goonack |
| Publisher | : |
| Total Pages | : 29 |
| Release | : 2019 |
| Genre | : Australian fiction |
| ISBN | : |
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This engaging story tells how the possum got its scaly-tail and the echidna got its spikes. Passed down from generation to generation, this is a traditional Dreamtime story. Scaly-tailed Possum and Echidna features two iconic Australian animals; the scaly-tailed possum, found only in a remote part of the Kimberley, and one of Australias most unusual mammals, the echidna. Vividly illustrated with paintings on silk, this Dreamtime story includes detailed descriptions and photographs of the scaly-tailed possum and the echidna. It also tells of the Wandjina, the Creator and Great Spirit, an important part of Aboriginal dreamtime stories from the Kimberley.
| Author | : Cathy Goonack |
| Publisher | : |
| Total Pages | : 32 |
| Release | : 2010 |
| Genre | : Juvenile Fiction |
| ISBN | : 9781921248160 |
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Passed down from generation to generation by the Kandiwal Aboriginal community, this engaging story explains how the scaly-tailed possum got its scaly tail and how the echidna—one of Australia’s most unusual mammals—got its spikes. Vividly illustrated by Kandiwal children, this traditional tale is not only entertaining but also educational as it provides photographs and descriptions of these two iconic Australian animals.
| Author | : Mona Green |
| Publisher | : |
| Total Pages | : 32 |
| Release | : 2004-01-01 |
| Genre | : Aboriginal Australians |
| ISBN | : 9781865046228 |
Download The Echidna and the Shade Tree Book in PDF, ePub and Kindle
This book is based on a story told by Mona Green, of the Jaru people, to Aboriginal children living in Halls Creek, Western Australia. The illustrations are adapted from the children's original paintings of the story. Mona Green said, "When my husband was a stockman, we used to go out to Nongra Lake to see if the cattle had enough water. I had heard the story about this giant lake, and I think that from the air it would look like a tree with roots stretching out."
| Author | : Jack Ashby |
| Publisher | : University of Chicago Press |
| Total Pages | : 396 |
| Release | : 2022-08-04 |
| Genre | : Nature |
| ISBN | : 022678925X |
Download Platypus Matters Book in PDF, ePub and Kindle
"Naturalist and Assistant Director of the Museum of Zoology at the University of Cambridge, Jack Ashby shares his love for the platypus and other Australian mammals, including wombats, echidnas, and kangaroos. Informed by stories of his experiences meeting living marsupials and egg-laying mammals on fieldwork in Tasmania and mainland Australia and his close contact with thousands of zoological specimens collected for museums over the last 200 years, Ashby's book explains historical mysteries and debunks myths about these mammals and especially the platypus-which lays eggs, feeds its young on milk, has venom spurs, and sports a bill that can detect electricity. In evaluating how humans have considered these special mammals, he makes clear that calling these animals "weird" or "primitive"- or incorrectly implying that Australia is an "evolutionary backwater"-has only added to the challenges for their conservation. One outcome of these descriptions is that Australia now has the worst mammal extinction rate of anywhere on Earth. Ashby argues that many of the ways that the world thinks about Australia's mammals can be traced back to the country's colonial history"--
| Author | : Sarah Allen |
| Publisher | : |
| Total Pages | : 0 |
| Release | : 2022 |
| Genre | : |
| ISBN | : 9781922863799 |
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| Author | : Alan F. Dixson |
| Publisher | : Cambridge University Press |
| Total Pages | : 405 |
| Release | : 2021-06-03 |
| Genre | : Medical |
| ISBN | : 1108426182 |
Download Mammalian Sexuality Book in PDF, ePub and Kindle
The first detailed account of post-copulatory sexual selection and the evolution of reproduction in mammals.
| Author | : Lorrae Coffin |
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| Release | : 2017-09 |
| Genre | : Pearl divers |
| ISBN | : 9781925360516 |
Download Free Diving Book in PDF, ePub and Kindle
Free Diving is a poignant tribute to the Indigenous men and women who worked in the pearling industry as 'free divers' in the late nineteenth century in Western Australia. In a practice known as 'blackbirding' (forced unpaid labour), European pearl lugger owners used Indigenous people to dive for pearl shell. With no protective suits, the divers faced threats such as decompression sickness (known as the 'bends'), shark attack, or of being swept away by huge tides. At sea for weeks at a time, there was also the risk of the luggers being shipwrecked in cyclones that formed off the coast. The lyrical narrative is based on the celebrated song 'Free Diving' by singer-songwriter Lorrae Coffin. It sensitively reflects the emotional journey of a young man who leaves family and country to work on a lugger with Japanese and Malay divers by his side. Bronwyn Houston's illustrations are a deep-sea celebration that illuminate both the glory of the ocean and the extreme dangers encountered by the free divers. Free Diving is a fictionalised story of a young man lost at sea. Age range 7 to 10
| Author | : Tracey Holton-Ramirez |
| Publisher | : |
| Total Pages | : 28 |
| Release | : 2013 |
| Genre | : Children's stories |
| ISBN | : 9781921248818 |
Download The Little Corroboree Frog Book in PDF, ePub and Kindle
The Little Corroborree Frog is a wonderful children's story that gently introduces the serious plight of one of Australia's most endangered species. Jet the corroboree frog is happily taking care of the tadpole ponds when the water starts to dry up and his family's eggs are threatened. He goes to visit Grandmother Frog to find out why and she tells him all about the summers that are getting hotter every year and the careless humans who are leaving their rubbish around. When a boy and his father arrive to go fishing in the nearby river, Jet seizes the opportunity to show them how humans are threatening the very existence of his species.
| Author | : Trina Saffioti |
| Publisher | : |
| Total Pages | : 36 |
| Release | : 2011 |
| Genre | : Aboriginal Australians |
| ISBN | : 9781921248252 |
Download Stolen Girl Book in PDF, ePub and Kindle
A fictionalised account of the now universally known story of the Stolen Generation and tells of an Aboriginal girl taken from her family and sent to a children's home.
| Author | : Bruce Pascoe |
| Publisher | : Magabala Books |
| Total Pages | : 80 |
| Release | : 2019-06-01 |
| Genre | : Juvenile Nonfiction |
| ISBN | : 1925768821 |
Download Young Dark Emu Book in PDF, ePub and Kindle
*Longlisted for the CBCA 2020 Eve Pownall Award for Information Books* *Winner of the Booksellers' Choice 2020 Children's Book of the Year Award* *Shortlisted for the 2020 NSW Premier’s Literary Awards Patricia Wrightson Prize for Children's Literature* *Shortlisted for the ABIA Book of the Year for Younger Children (ages 7-12)* *Shortlisted for the Indie Book Awards 2020: Children's* Age range 10+. The highly-anticipated junior version of Bruce Pascoe’s multi award-winning book. Bruce Pascoe has collected a swathe of literary awards for Dark Emu and now he has brought together the research and compelling first person accounts in a book for younger readers. Using the accounts of early European explorers, colonists and farmers, Bruce Pascoe compellingly argues for a reconsideration of the hunter-gatherer label for pre-colonial Aboriginal Australians. He allows the reader to see Australia as it was before Europeans arrived — a land of cultivated farming areas, productive fisheries, permanent homes, and an understanding of the environment and its natural resources that supported thriving villages across the continent. Young Dark Emu — A Truer History asks young readers to consider a different version of Australia’s history pre-European colonisation. 'Adapted for a younger readership from Pascoe's best-selling Dark Emu, this exquisitely illustrated picture book will transform how we see Australian history. Bruce uses the diaries of early explorers and colonists to show us the Australia where Aboriginal people built houses, dams and wells and farmed the land.' — Fiona Stager, The Courier Mail
