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Author Roughsey, Elsie, 1923-2000

Title The turkey and the emu / text by Labamu Roughsey ; illustrations by Goobalathaldin Roughsey ; as told to Ted Egan
Published Sydney : Harcourt Brace Jovanovich Group (Australia), [1978]
Sydney : Harcourt Brace Jovanovich Group (Australia), c1978
c1978
©1978

Copies

Location Call no. Vol. Availability
 W'PONDS CRC  398.2049915 Rou  AVAILABLE
 W'BOOL CRC  PICTURE BOOK Rou/Tat  AVAILABLE
 NIKERII  NIKERII  IN PROCESS
Description 22 pages : chiefly color illustrations ; 23 x 24 cm
Series Aboriginal Australia reading
Aboriginal Australia reading.
Contents Side A of sound cassette contains a dramatic reading of the text by Amber Mae Cecil; side B contains 3 traditional Aboriginal songs and a song by Ted Egan
Summary SUMMARY: The Aboriginal legend of how the turkey and the emu lied to and tricked each other, until eventually, turkey tricked emu into losing her wings
Notes Australian Aboriginal tales & legends. Texts. Juvenile literature (ANB/PRECIS SIN 000992x)
Audience For 6-8 year old children to follow as they listen to the recorded reading, and for 9-10 year olds to read independently
Subject Aboriginal Australians -- Juvenile literature.
Aboriginal Australians -- Legends -- Juvenile literature.
Aboriginal Australians -- Folklore -- Juvenile literature.
Aboriginal Australians -- Folklore -- Juvenile sound recordings.
Aboriginal Australians -- Folklore.
Aboriginal Australians -- Legends.
Aboriginal Australians -- Music -- Juvenile sound recordings.
Aboriginal Australians -- Religion -- Juvenile literature.
Aboriginal Australians -- Australia -- Queensland -- Folklore -- Juvenile literature.
Aboriginal Australians -- Legends -- Juvenile literature.
Animal legends and stories
Art, Aboriginal Australian.
Children's stories, Aboriginal Australian (English) -- Translations into English
Emus -- Folklore -- Juvenile literature.
Emus -- Juvenile fiction.
Emus.
Folk literature, Aboriginal Australian -- Juvenile literature
Folklore -- Australia -- Juvenile literature.
Folklore -- Australia.
Indigenous peoples -- Legends.
Legends -- Australia -- Juvenile literature.
Legends -- Australia.
Mythology, Aboriginal Australian -- Juvenile literature.
Readers.
Tales -- Australia -- Juvenile literature.
Turkeys -- Folklore -- Juvenile literature.
Turkeys -- Juvenile fiction.
SUBJECT Australia http://id.loc.gov/authorities/names/n79021326 -- Folklore http://id.loc.gov/authorities/subjects/sh99001947 -- Juvenile literature. http://id.loc.gov/authorities/subjects/sh99001674
Genre/Form Legends.
Fiction.
Picture books.
Author Egan, Ted, 1932-
Roughsey, Dick.
ISBN 0729500454