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Literature for the Classroom: Early Years and Primary

Australia

Information about The Dreaming for Australian Indigenous people can be found here.

Banana bird and the Snake men by written and illustrated by Percy Trezise & Dick Roughsey
Call Number: PZ7.T74 Ba 1980
Bangu the flying fox : a dreamtime story of the Yuin people of Wallaga Lake by Jillian Taylor
Call Number: PZ8.1.T39 Ba 2009
Cooee mittigar : a story on Darug songlines by Jasmine Seymour
Call Number: PZ7 .S49 Co 2019
The Flying Fox Warriors by Percy Trezise (Illustrator); Kathy Keller (Introduction by)
Call Number: PZ8.1.T72 Fl 1985
The giant devil dingo by Written and illustrated by Dick Roughsey.
Call Number: PZ8.1.R754 Gi 1973
Kookoo kookaburra by Gregg Dreise
Call Number: PZ7 .D74 Ko 2015
Kuiyku mabaigal: Waii & Sobai by retold by Aidan Laza ; illustrated and translated by Alick Tipoti
Call Number: PZ8.1.L349 K85 1998
The legend of the seven sisters : a traditional Aboriginal story from Western Australia by written by May L. O'Brien ; illustrated by Sue Wyatt
Call Number: PR8271.B75 L45 1990
The milky way by Text and illustrations by Narritjan Maymuru as told to Ted Egan.
Call Number: PZ8.1.M4626 Mi 1978
Pheasant and kingfisher by Originally told by Nganalgindja in the Gunwinggu language ; Catherine Berndt ; Arone Raymond Meeks
Call Number: PZ8.1 B4168 1994
The Rainbow Serpent by Dick Roughsey
Call Number: PZ8.1.R75 Rai 2011
Silly Birds by Gregg Dreise
Call Number: PZ7.D74 Si 2014
Stradbroke dreamtime by Oodgeroo ; illustrated by Bronwyn Bancroft
Call Number: PZ8.1.O634 S7 1993
Wandihnu and the old dugong by Elizabeth and Wandihnu Wymarra ; illustrated by Benjamin Hodges
Call Number: PZ7.W96 Wa 2007

Oceania

How Maui Slowed the Sun by Peter Gossage
Publication Date: 2011
Swim: The Story of Hinemoa and Tutanekai by Chris Szekely
Publication Date: 2013
The Taniwha of Wellington Harbour by Moira Wairama
Publication Date: 2011

Asia and the Sub-Continent

One grain of rice: a mathematical folktale by Demi
Call Number: PZ8.1.D38 On 1997
Seasons of Splendour: Tales, Myths and Legends of India by Madhur Jaffrey, illustrated by Michael Foreman
Publication Date: 2016

The Americas

The miracle of the first poinsettia : a Mexican Christmas story by Retold by Joanne Oppenheim
Call Number: PZ8.1.O57 Mi 2003

Africa

The hunterman and the crocodile : a West African folktale by Retold and illustrated by Baba Wagué Diakité.
Call Number: PZ8.1.D564 Hu 1997
A Story, A Story by Gail Haley
Call Number: PZ8.1.H139 St 1970
Why mosquitoes buzz in people's ears : a West African tale by Retold by Verna Aardema, pictures by Leo and Diane Dillon.
Call Number: PZ8.1.A213 Wh 1975

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