How the birds got their colours / by Mary Albert -- Barn-Barn Barlala, the bush trickster / by May L. O'Brien -- Warnayarra the rainbow snake / by the Senior boys class Lajamanu school -- Enora and the black crane / by Arone Raymond Meeks -- Going for Oysters / Jeanie Adams -- Pigs and honey / by Jeanie Adams -- Pheasant and Kingfisher / by Catherine Berndt -- Tucker's Mob / by Christopher Mattingley -- How the kangaroos got their tails / by George Mung Mung Lirrmiyarri -- Why the emu can't fly / by May L. O'Brien -- My dreaming is the christmas bird / as told to Sarah Fitzherbert -- Teaching notes to accompany the Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander Resource Pack for Teachers / Pam Koeneman and Paul Travini
Summary
A traditional Aboriginal story about the first pheasant and kingfisher