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y separately published work icon Bip, the Snapping Bungaroo single work   picture book   children's   Indigenous story  
Issue Details: First known date: 1990... 1990 Bip, the Snapping Bungaroo
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' Bip the bungaroo has a wonderful SNAP that delights all the animals who come to the billabong to drink but there is trouble when Mother Kangaroo borrows the SNAP one day. A simple friendly tale with vivid illustrations in a contemporary Aboriginal style.' The Source database.

Notes

  • The word 'bungaroo' is the name commonly used by the Nadjan and Djirubal people of Far North Queensland for turtle.

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Works about this Work

Untitled Dianne Bates , 2009 single work review
— Appears in: Books Buzz , June no. 9 2009; (p. 10-11)
— Review of Bip, the Snapping Bungaroo Narelle McRobbie , 1990 single work picture book
Untitled Margot Tyrrell , 1991 single work review
— Appears in: Magpies : Talking About Books for Children , July vol. 6 no. 3 1991; (p. 26)
— Review of Bip, the Snapping Bungaroo Narelle McRobbie , 1990 single work picture book
Untitled Elspeth Cameron , 1991 single work review
— Appears in: Reading Time : The Journal of the Children's Book Council of Australia , vol. 35 no. 3 1991; (p. 15-16)
— Review of Bip, the Snapping Bungaroo Narelle McRobbie , 1990 single work picture book
Untitled Elspeth Cameron , 1991 single work review
— Appears in: Reading Time : The Journal of the Children's Book Council of Australia , vol. 35 no. 3 1991; (p. 15-16)
— Review of Bip, the Snapping Bungaroo Narelle McRobbie , 1990 single work picture book
Untitled Margot Tyrrell , 1991 single work review
— Appears in: Magpies : Talking About Books for Children , July vol. 6 no. 3 1991; (p. 26)
— Review of Bip, the Snapping Bungaroo Narelle McRobbie , 1990 single work picture book
Untitled Dianne Bates , 2009 single work review
— Appears in: Books Buzz , June no. 9 2009; (p. 10-11)
— Review of Bip, the Snapping Bungaroo Narelle McRobbie , 1990 single work picture book
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Awards

1991 winner CBCA Book of the Year Awards — CBCA Award for New Illustrator Won by Grace Fielding for the illustrations.
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