Jirrbal: Rainforest Dreamtime Stories by Maisie (Yarrcali) Barlow
Jirrbal: Rainforest Dreamtime Stories by Maisie (Yarrcali) Barlow
Jirrbal: Rainforest Dreamtime Stories by Maisie (Yarrcali) Barlow
Jirrbal: Rainforest Dreamtime Stories by Maisie (Yarrcali) Barlow

Jirrbal: Rainforest Dreamtime Stories by Maisie (Yarrcali) Barlow

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Illustrated by Michael (Boiyool) Anning

*2002 CBCA Shortlisted Book of the Year Awards - Eve Pownall Award for Information Books

Jirrbal is a collection of witty moral tales with delightfully drawn illustrations that represent the lifestyle of the Jirrbalngan people of Northern Queensland. This interactive book includes Jirrbal language and animal characters for children to follow throughout each tale. These stories reflect a lifestyle that arose from living in the rainforests in the far north of Queensland.

Condition: Very Good Condition
Format: Hardcover
Age: 7+

Maisie Barlow is one of the few surviving elders of the Jirrbal people of Queensland Australia. Her work has been resuming the storytelling tradition that was broken with white settlement and the dispossession of people from their land and their families.

Michael is a craftsperson immersed in the traditional culture of the rainforest people of the coastal area of north Queensland. In 1998 Boiyool became the first Queenslander to win a major prize at the National Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander Art Awards in the Northern Territory. His work is represented in galleries and touring collections, including the Australian National University, School of Art Gallery, Canberra.

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Acknowledgement of Country

Little Modern Reader acknowledges the Gadigal people of Eora nation, the traditional custodians of the land where we work and live. We pay our respects to Elders past, present and emerging. We celebrate the stories, culture and traditions of Aboriginal and Torres Straight Islander Elders of all communities who also work and live on this land.

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