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"The 1925 edition of Australian Legends contained twenty five Aboriginal stories, many apparently having originally been collected in the Burragorang Valley during the 1860s. This edition was illustrated with line drawings done by Peck. Nineteen additional stories appeared in the Sydney Mail between 4 January 1928 and 23 January 1929, under the more precise banner 'Aboriginal Legends'.
A second, slightly expanded version of Australian Legends was published in Melbourne during 1933, with line drawings by George Pownell and the number of Aboriginal stories increased to thirty four. This edition also featured an Introduction which referred to one of Peck's sources, Ellen Anderson. This latter edition included eighteen 'legends' which had appeared in the first edition, along with eight from the Sydney Mail series and another eight new stories, mostly relating to the Illawarra and Shoalhaven regions of New South Wales."
- Source: Michael Organ (http://www.michaelorgan.org.au)
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Listed in Australian Children's Books : A Bibliography (1992) with comment 'not specifically a children's book.'
Contents
- The First Waratah : Burragorang Valley, single work short story Indigenous story dreaming story
- The First Gymea or Gigantic Lily : Campbelltown area, single work short story Indigenous story dreaming story
- How the Waratah got its Honey : Burragorang Valley, single work short story Indigenous story dreaming story
- How the White Waratah Became Red : Sherbrooke, single work short story Indigenous story dreaming story
- How the Sky was Lifted Up : Murrumbidgee River, single work short story Indigenous story dreaming story
- The First Kangaroo : South-east Australia, single work short story Indigenous story dreaming story
- The Struggle for Supremacy between Birds and Animals : Megalong Valley, single work short story Indigenous story dreaming story
- How the Pistels of the Waratah became Firm : Burragorang Valley, single work short story Indigenous story dreaming story
- Why the Waratah is Firm : George's River, single work short story Indigenous story dreaming story
- The First Bush Fire : Hunter River, single work short story Indigenous story dreaming story
- The First Kangaroo : Yerranderie, single work short story Indigenous story dreaming story
- The Bubbling Springs : South Australia, single work short story Indigenous story dreaming story
- The Salt Lakes : Burragorang Valley, single work short story Indigenous story dreaming story
- Shooting Stars : 'Basalt Country', single work short story Indigenous story dreaming story
- Why the Petiole of the Waratah grew Long : Mount Wilson, single work short story Indigenous story dreaming story
- The First Crayfish : Shoalhaven, single work short story Indigenous story dreaming story
- The Clinging Koala (and Bunyip) : Wollondilly River, single work short story Indigenous story dreaming story
- The White Man's BootsNattai : Wollondilly, single work short story Indigenous story dreaming story
- The Hand that tried to Draw a Waratah : Burragorang Valley, single work short story Indigenous story dreaming story
- Why Trees Have Bark : Eastern Australia, single work short story Indigenous story dreaming story
Publication Details of Only Known VersionEarliest 2 Known Versions of
Works about this Work
- y Early Ancestors of Illawarra's Wadi-Wadi People : Part 1, the Unacknowledged Sources of Traditional Stories in C. W. Peck's Book 'Australian Legends, Tales Handed Down from the Remotest Times...' (publ. 1925 and 1933) Wollongong : Wadi Wadi Coomaditchie Aboriginal Corporation , 2003 Z1365732 2003 single work biography criticism
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The Younger Generation
1935
single work
review
prose
— Appears in: The Opinion , 15 May vol. 1 no. 1 1935; (p. 22)
— Review of Mary Poppins 1934 single work children's fiction ; Australian Legends : Tales Handed Down from the Remotest Times by the Autocthonous Inhabitants of Our Land : Parts 1 and 2 1925 anthology short story
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The Younger Generation
1935
single work
review
prose
— Appears in: The Opinion , 15 May vol. 1 no. 1 1935; (p. 22)
— Review of Mary Poppins 1934 single work children's fiction ; Australian Legends : Tales Handed Down from the Remotest Times by the Autocthonous Inhabitants of Our Land : Parts 1 and 2 1925 anthology short story - y Early Ancestors of Illawarra's Wadi-Wadi People : Part 1, the Unacknowledged Sources of Traditional Stories in C. W. Peck's Book 'Australian Legends, Tales Handed Down from the Remotest Times...' (publ. 1925 and 1933) Wollongong : Wadi Wadi Coomaditchie Aboriginal Corporation , 2003 Z1365732 2003 single work biography criticism