| ISBN |
9781925381764 hardback |
| Name |
Murphy Wandin, Joy author. |
| Title |
Wilam : a Birrarung story / aunty Joy Murphy & Andrew Kelly ; with illustrations by Lisa Kennedy. |
| Published |
Newtown, N.S.W. : Black Dog Books, 2019. |
| ©2019. |
| Description |
1 volume (unpaged) : colour illustrations ; 26 x 30 cm. |
| Notes |
Cultural sensitivity advisory notice: Aboriginal, Torres Strait Islander and other First Nations people are advised that this item may contain names, recordings, images, photographs, illustrations and text of deceased people and other content that may be culturally sensitive. |
| Summary |
As ngua rises, Bunjil soars over mountain ash, flying higher and higher as the wind warms. Below, Birrarung begins its long winding path down to palem warreen. Wilam - home. Yarra River keeper Andrew Kelly joins Aunty Joy Murphy and Lisa Kennedy to tell the Indigenous and geographical story of Melbourne's Yarra River, from its source to its mouth; from its pre-history to the present day. |
| Target audience note |
Primary aged children. |
| Reading Program Note |
Premier's Reading Challenge 5-6. |
| Language note |
Text in English with words from Woiwurrung language. |
| Subjects |
Aboriginal Australians -- Folklore -- Pictorial works -- Juvenile fiction |
| Rivers -- Pictorial works -- Juvenile fiction |
| Stream ecology -- Pictorial works -- Juvenile fiction |
| Stream animals -- Pictorial works -- Juvenile fiction |
| Woiwurrung language -- Juvenile fiction |
| Children's stories -- Pictorial works |
| Australian fiction |
| Yarra River (Vic.) -- Pictorial works -- Juvenile fiction |
| Genre |
Picture books |
| Premier's Reading Challenge 5-6 |
| First Nations |
| Other Names |
Kelly, Andrew author. |
| Kennedy, Lisa, 1963- illustrator. |
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