CHILDREN’S BOOKS Aboriginal –

This is the story of Dingo, Wombat, Crow and their friends as they struggle to exist alongside the devastation of mining that is tearing up their beautiful homeland. This powerful children’s parable/cautionary tale on the destruction and havoc that mining causes to the land and to community is both touching and hard-hitting. The book consists of four chapters: Dingo’s Tree, The Raindrop, The Tree that Walked and The Last Tree.

First Edition. (Small name on fep., otherwise Fine))

• 46 p. : col. ill. ; 26 cm. #290125
• “‘Dingo’s tree’ was first published in the Westerly, Volume 54, Number 2, 2009”
• First Nations (AIATSIS) Subject:
  • Stories and motifs – Landscape
  • Stories and motifs – Animals
  • Literature and stories – Juvenile
  • Palyku people (A55) (WA SF51-09)
  • Pilbara area (WA SF50, SF51, SG50)

  Subject:

  • Dingo — Juvenile fiction
  • Wombats — Juvenile fiction
  • Mineral industries — Environmental aspects — Australia — Juvenile fiction
  • Aboriginal Australian literature