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This trilogy of three novels, made up of My Girragundji (1998), The Binna Binna Man (1999), and Njunjul the Sun (2002), was adapted to the stage and first produced by the Bell Shakespeare Company in 2001. It toured Brisbane, Mittagong, Canberra, Wollongong, Gosford and Newcastle. In 2002, the production toured Adelaide and Melbourne. Director: Chris Canute.
'I remember all those things, like magic moths with rainbow wings and spider webs with pearly dew, but the memory I love most is when I was a little boy and used to play with my friend Mary Kangaroo... A celebration of a special friendship, Me and Mary Kangaroo is a story for all ages, a lyrical, moving tale to be shared again and again.' (Source: Publisher's blurb)
(...more)'As Mary Malbunka shares her stories of playing with friends, building cubby houses, climbing trees, collecting sugarbag, digging for honey ants, hunting for lizards, and learning about the seasons, animals and plants, she creates a vivid picture of a truly Australian childhood in which country - ngurra is life itself.
Warm and accessible, this is essentially an oral story, and it contains a number of words in Luritja whose meaning is explained in context and also within an extensive glossary.
(...more)'Bobtales is an animated series of thirteen five minute Aboriginal Dreamtime stories for young children. These enchanting five-minute tales bring to life stories of how some of Australia's native animals came to look the way they do, and why the moon and the stars appear in the sky. Presented by Aboriginal storytellers, these beautifully illustrated stories use dynamic computer animation based on drawings by Aboriginal children from Western Australia to tell traditional legends in an imaginative and colourful way.
(...more)Magabala Books is Australia's oldest independent Indigenous publishing house and long term supporter of Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander writers across the mainland and surrounding islands. Magabala works as a non-profit organization to preserve, develop and promote Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander cultures. It publishes a wide range of children's books.
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