CHILDREN”S BOOKS Aboriginal Indigenous
Beautifully told Aboriginal story of three children swept away from their home by a storm. Will they survive the high waters of the great lake? Can they travel through the land of the Snake Men and reach their home again?
Jadianta, Lande and Jalmor are three children of the Kadimakara People who were caught in a storm and stranded across the great lake, Balanorga. Now they are trying to find their way home and in this part of the series, they are in the Land of the Snake people.
Percy Trezise AM (1923 – 2005) was a painter and writer as well as an historian and documenter of Aboriginal rock art. Trezise served in the RAAF during WW2, and from 1956 he worked in northern Australia as an airline pilot. From the air he would gauge areas likely to contain Aboriginal rock art that he would later explore. Trezise collaborated on a series of children’s books with Aboriginal artist Dick Roughsey, and as well as being a member of the Order of Australia, in 2004 he received an Honorary Doctorate from James Cook University.
First Edition.
- 32 unnumbered pages: illustrations, map ; 22 x 27 cm. #020224
- Folded map affixed to last page.
- Aboriginal Australians — Folklore — Juvenile literature
- Stories and motifs – Ancestor spirits
- Animals – Mammals – Marsupial megafauna
- Gulf of Carpentaria (SD53, SD54, SE54)
- Australian
- Kerry White collection of Australian children’s books.