| ISBN |
9781922592392 hardback |
| Name |
Ross, Joe Willigan adapter. |
| Title |
Winthali = Fire / a traditional Bunuba story adapted by Joe Willigan Ross and Stacey Bush ; illustrated by Remi Nyandat Ross, Boheme Baiana Ross. |
| Published |
Broadway, NSW : Indigenous Literacy Foundation, 2022. |
| ©2022. |
| Description |
30 unnumbered pages : colour illustrations ; 22 x 27 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 |
Winthali is a traditional Bunuba story, adapted here by Joe Ross and Stacey Brooking. Greedy Old Man Crocodile (Lallanggarra) won't share his fire with the Bunuba people, but Brown Falcon (Girrganyi), with the help of the young animals comes up with a clever plan to take a fire-stick from his home at Jarrambaya. This story belongs to the Danggu people of the Fitzroy Valley. |
| Target audience note |
For ages 5+. |
| Language note |
Parallel text in English and Bunuba language. |
| Subjects |
Fire -- Pictorial works -- Juvenile literature |
| Animals -- Pictorial works -- Juvenile literature |
| Sharing -- Pictorial works -- Juvenile literature |
| Aboriginal Australians -- Folklore -- Western Australia -- Juvenile literature |
| Bilingual books |
| Children's stories -- Pictorial works |
| Genre |
Picture books |
| First Nations |
| Other Names |
Bush, Stacey author. |
| Ross, Remi Nyandat illustrator. |
| Ross, Boheme Baiana illustrator. |
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