Jirrbal Rainforest Dreamtime Stories

(Paperback)

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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.

Author Bio

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