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Author Utemorrah, Daisy.

Title Do not go around the edges / poems by Daisy Utemorrah ; illustrated by Pat Torres
Published Broome, W.A. : Magabala Books, 1990
1990

Copies

Location Call no. Vol. Availability
 W'PONDS CRC  PICTURE BOOK Ute/Dng  AVAILABLE
 W'BOOL CRC  PICTURE BOOK Ute/Dng  AVAILABLE
 MELB CRC  PICTURE BOOK Ute/Dng  AVAILABLE
 MELB SPCBC  819 Utemor Dai/Dng  LIB USE ONLY
Description 29 pages : chiefly color illustrations ; 22 x 26 cm
Series Premier's Reading Challenge, 5-6
Premier's Reading Challenge, 7-9
Premier's Reading Challenge, 5-6
Premier's Reading Challenge, 7-9
Contents Do not go around the edges -- Galinji -- Wattle tree -- Burun Burun the Kingfisher -- Rain -- Bind with the white man's law -- A cricket -- Mother's touch -- Wandjinas -- Willy Wagtail about the tribal war -- Poet -- Cat -- A dog's tale -- Black man -- Our mother land
Summary Daisy's life story runs along the bottom of the pages: how she was born on a mission, schooled, introduced to Christianity, started writing and what she does now. The poems and illustrations on each page often related to her life story. Useful as a reader for adult literacy or as an introduction to biograophy or poetry
Notes Available from Magabala Books, PO Box 668, Broome WA 6725
For children
Audience For children
Notes Copy 2 - donation from Tom Austen Brown collection
Children's Book of the Year Award: Younger Readers, 1992 shortlist
Subject Utemorrah, Daisy.
Aboriginal Australian poetry.
Aboriginal Australians -- Juvenile literature.
Aboriginal Australians -- Juvenile poetry.
Aboriginal Australians -- Poetry.
Aboriginal Australians -- Women -- Australia -- Kimberley (W.A.) -- Biography.
Aboriginal Australians -- Women -- Australia -- Western Australia -- Kimberley -- Biography
Australian poetry -- Aboriginal Australian authors.
Australian poetry -- Authors, Australian
Children's poetry, Australian.
Children's poetry.
Mythology, Aboriginal Australian.
Australian poetry -- Aboriginal authors
Premiers Reading Challenge 5-6
Premiers Reading Challenge 7-9
Women, Aboriginal Australian -- Australia -- Western Australia -- Kimberley -- Biography
Women, Aboriginal Australian -- Australia -- Western Australia -- Kimberley
Genre/Form Poetry.
Biographies.
Picture books.
Author Torres, Pat.
LC no. dup95881011
ISBN 0958810117