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Author Trezise, P. J. (Percy J.), author, illustrator

Title The flying fox warriors / written and illustrated by Percy Trezise & Dick Roughsey
Published Sydney : Collins, 1987
Sydney : Collins, 1985
1985

Copies

Location Call no. Vol. Availability
 W'PONDS CRC  PICTURE BOOK Tre/Ffw  AVAILABLE
 W'BOOL CRC  PICTURE BOOK Tre/Ffw  AVAILABLE
 ADPML SPCHL  819 Trezis Per/Ffw  LIB USE ONLY
Description 29 unnumbered pages : coloured illustrations ; 26 cm
Series Fontana picture lions
Fontana picture lions
Summary The Dreamtime story of how the Bird People finally vanquished the Joonging by burning to stop them stealing their young maidens; and how the remaining Joonging grew wings and became flying foxes in order to escape the flames, while the Bird People also grew wings and became the many varieties of Australian birds
Notes First published: Sydney : Collins, 1985
Audience For primary grades
Subject Aboriginal Australians -- Folklore -- Juvenile literature.
Aboriginal Australians -- Folklore.
Aboriginal Australians -- Legends -- Juvenile literature.
Aboriginal Australians -- Legends.
Aboriginal Australians -- Ethnozoology -- Juvenile literature.
Aboriginal Australians -- Religion -- Juvenile literature.
Aboriginal Australians -- Australia -- Arnhem Land (N.T.) -- Folklore.
Birds -- Australia -- Folklore.
Children -- Folklore.
Flying foxes -- Folklore.
Mythology, Aboriginal Australian -- Juvenile literature.
Aboriginal Australians -- Legends.
Bats -- Folklore.
Birds -- Folklore.
Flying foxes -- Folklore.
Genre/Form Picture books.
Fiction.
Legends.
Author Roughsey, Dick, author, illustrator
LC no. 86061645
ISBN 0006623379 (paperback)