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1 8 y separately published work icon Noongar Mambara Bakitj Kim Scott , Lomas Roberts , Geoffrey Woods (illustrator), Crawley : UWA Publishing , 2011 Z1809055 2011 single work picture book children's 'A young man follows a kangaroo track deep into the old people's country. Along the way he meets some spirit creatures ("mambara") who allow him to go on. But after he has hunted down the kangaroo, one mambara is angry and demands a fight ("bakitj"). All day they fight, until the Noongar discovers he is a magic person and defeats the mambara.

'This book is inspired by a story Bob Roberts and Freddie Winmer told the American linguist Gerhardt Laves at Albany, Western Australia, around 1931. It has been workshopped in a series of community meetings, which included some of the contemporary family of both Bob Roberts and Freddie Winmer.

'This story is told in old Noongar, contemporary Noongar and English.' (From the publisher's website.)
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