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(Paperback)

By: Joanne Crawford

ISBN: 9781921248306
Readership/Audience: Children
Publication Date: Jan 2005
Publisher: Magabala Books
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When a storm sparks a raging bushfire, Bilby and his friends are forced to leave their homes to escape the danger. Each animal uses its own natural defences against the fire, but what will Bilby do He's never been in a bushfire before!


(Hardback)

By: Kirli Saunders

ISBN: 9781925936667
Readership/Audience: Children
Publication Date: Nov 2020
Publisher: Magabala Books
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(Paperback)

By: Narelle McRobbie

ISBN: 9781921248078
Readership/Audience: Children
Publication Date: May 2009
Publisher: Magabala Books
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This exciting new edition of Bip the Snapping Bungaroo is set to captivate young readers once again. Bungaroo is the Australian Yidin people's word for turtle. Bip the snapping turtle is renowned for his very loud SNAP! When Bip awakes one day to find he can't snap any more, the adventure begins to unravel the mystery behind Bip's missing snap.


(Paperback)

By: Kevin Palmer

ISBN: 9781921248207
Readership/Audience: General
Publication Date: Jul 2010
Publisher: Magabala Books
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The story of Kevin Palmer's rise from a childhood spent in a boys' home, to travelling the globe with the biggest names in stage and on screen, is an inspiration for anyone who has ever wanted to follow a dream. The inside story of Palmer's experiences with luminaries such as Laurence Olivier, Peggy Ashcroft, Ian McKellen, and Judy Davis.


(Paperback)

By: Beryl Hackner

ISBN: 9781875641796
Readership/Audience: General
Publication Date: Feb 2003
Publisher: Magabala Books
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Noongar woman, Dot Collard is as natural a storyteller as she is an international actress. In this candid memoir, she weaves together memories and stories centered around her family in Western Australia's south-west.


(Hardback)

By: Gregg Dreise

ISBN: 9781925768862
Readership/Audience: General
Publication Date: Oct 2019
Publisher: Magabala Books
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(Paperback, None ed.)

By: Bruce Pascoe

ISBN: 9781922142436
Readership/Audience: General
Publication Date: Mar 2014
Publisher: Magabala Books
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(Paperback)

By: Pat Lowe

ISBN: 9781875641574
Readership/Audience: General
Publication Date: Sep 2000
Publisher: Magabala Books
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The third book in the stunning Yinti series, this book is baed on the life stories of Jimmy Pike. Yinti has left his desert sandhills country to be a cowboy, working on huge sheep and cattle stations. Still a mischief-maker, he finds out all about station life and town life too. And then Yinti falls in love.


(Paperback)

By: Dephine Kendrick

ISBN: 9781875641826
Readership/Audience: Primary and Secondary Educational
Publication Date: Apr 2004
Publisher: Magabala Books
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The little dream child placed herself in a giant coneshell and floated downstream towards the coast of Maningrida. She sailed past the sacred Dreaming waterhole called Djomi. It was here in this sacred place where her destiny lay...This is a beautifully illustrated traditional Dreamtime story from Maningrida. Ages 6-11.


(Paperback)

By: Bruce Pascoe

ISBN: 9781875641611
Readership/Audience: General
Publication Date: May 2001
Publisher: Magabala Books
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With his fourth novel, Pascoe establishes himself in contemporary Australian literature. This is a novel of witty voices from the past and present. The setting is the Victorian countryside during the later part of the 19th century. Decimation of the indigenous population has occurred and old cultures are breaking down.


(Paperback)

By: Arone Raymond Meeks

ISBN: 9781921248023
Readership/Audience: Children
Publication Date: Feb 2009
Publisher: Magabala Books
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A traditional story based on Arone Meeks' knowledge of the bush, the spirits who lived there and their laws as taught to him by his grandfather, a member of the Kokoimudgji tribe in Queensland.


(Paperback)

By: Senior Western Desert Women

ISBN: 9781875641154
Readership/Audience: General
Publication Date: Jan 1995
Publisher: Magabala Books
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This work is a collection of life experiences recounted by senior Aboriginal women from Wirrimanu, Malarn and Yaka Yaka communities of the Balgo area in the East Kimberley. It provides an insight into the lives, culture and history of the people of the desert, as seen through the eyes of the women.


(Paperback)

By: Anne Abednego Gela

ISBN: 9781875641093
Readership/Audience: Children
Publication Date: Jan 1994
Publisher: Magabala Books
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Gelam and his mother Usar are abandoned on the island of Moa, pursued by the evil Dhogai, and befriended by Kupas the sandcrab. This story is a unique cultural interpretation of the universal myth about the relationship between mother and son - the creation of country in the Torres Strait.


(Paperback)

By: Alexis Wright

ISBN: 9781921248122
Readership/Audience: General
Publication Date: Nov 2009
Publisher: Magabala Books
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Miles Franklin award winner Alexis Wright describes the shocking effects of alcohol abuse and racism in this vivid portrayal of a small town in Northern Australia fighting to bring about change. Aboriginal elders and community advisors fought for years to put alcohol restrictions in place. Should alcohol be restricted Whose decision is it to make


(Paperback)

By: Nola Turner-Jensen

ISBN: 9781921248771
Readership/Audience: Children
Publication Date: Sep 2012
Publisher: Magabala Books
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One of the first four titles in a unique series of Indigenous Levelled Readers written and illustrated by Aboriginal authors/artists.


(Paperback)

By: Pat Torres

ISBN: 9780731616220
Readership/Audience: Primary and Secondary Educational
Publication Date: Jan 1994
Publisher: Magabala Books
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Gathers poems about Australian animals, in English and in the Aboriginal language.


(Paperback)

By: Monty Walgar

ISBN: 9781875641512
Readership/Audience: Tertiary Education
Publication Date: Dec 1999
Publisher: Magabala Books
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This is the autobiographical account of a Yamaji man from the Murchison River area of western Australia, one of the first generation of Aboriginal people who had access to alcohol. It is a story of hard work, addiction, recovery, relapse, and finally successful recovery. It offers an illustration of


(Paperback)

By: Maisie Barlow

ISBN: 9781875641062
Readership/Audience: Children
Publication Date: Jan 2001
Publisher: Magabala Books
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From Ravenshoe, these simple and wittily told stories are true moral fables from the Rainforest people of northern Queensland, nurtured through the rich traditions of a timeless understanding. The animal characters and the moon are drawn in a simple style. For ages 4-10.


(Paperback)

By: Aidan Laza

ISBN: 9781875641406
Readership/Audience: Children
Publication Date: Jun 1998
Publisher: Magabala Books
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A man cannot be recognised as a warrior in the Torres Strait Islands until he survives a battle with a native enemy. Waii and Sobai are two brothers, famous as fighters. They share in killing trespassers or attackers. If they come upon a man untaught in fighting, their arrows dig into his chest.


(Paperback)

By: Daphne Puntjina Burton

ISBN: 9781875641536
Readership/Audience: Children
Publication Date: Dec 2000
Publisher: Magabala Books
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A traditional, bilingual story from Areyonga in the Northern Territory. A whimsical account of a young girl who spends her days chasing willy-willies. One day, the kupi-kupi spirits her far away to a waterhole, where she is guarded by a giant watersnake. Her bold rescue by the witchdoctor restores her to her family. Age 5+.


(Paperback, 2nd edition)

By: Merrilee Lands

ISBN: 9781875641338
Readership/Audience: General
Publication Date: Jan 1997
Publisher: Magabala Books
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This new edition is substantially redesigned, corrected and updated and coincides with the tenth anniversary of Magabala's first book. It offers a guide to identification of bush fruits of the West Kinberley and traditional preparation methods and uses of the plants as well as names of the plants and fruits in different Aboriginal languages.


(Paperback)

By: Harold Hunt

ISBN: 9781875641956
Readership/Audience: General
Publication Date: Jul 2006
Publisher: Magabala Books
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May Hunt, a Malyangapa woman from Milparinka, made a life for herself and her children when dust storms swirled off the Simpson Desert and gibber-covered plains shimmered in the midday heat. This title looks at the hardships of a nomadic family life, community relationships and the enduring struggle of a single mother with six children.


(Paperback)

By: Florence Corrigan

ISBN: 9781921248153
Readership/Audience: General
Publication Date: Apr 2010
Publisher: Magabala Books
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A story of hardship and heartache in the rough Pilbara outback. This compelling memoir from Florence Corrigan, who grew up moving from camp to camp as her parents followed itinerant and contract work around remote stations, describes the harsh lifestyle they led with few luxuries.


(Paperback)

By: Iris Burgoyne

ISBN: 9781875641567
Readership/Audience: General
Publication Date: Nov 2000
Publisher: Magabala Books
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Iris Burgoyne, a Mirning and Kokatha woman from South Australia, tells of the grief and racism that her family have endured in their own lands. She recounts the age-old Aboriginal practices she grew up with and recalls mission life and years of hard work caring for her family.

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