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Author Riddle, Tohby, author, illustrator

Title Yahoo Creek : an Australian mystery / Tohby Riddle with Peter Williams
Published Crows Nest, NSW : Allen & Unwin, 2019
©2019

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 MELB CRC  398.2 Rid/Yca  AVAILABLE
Description 1 volume (unpaged) : colour illustrations ; 29 cm
Summary Luminous images accompanied by newspaper extracts dating back to the early 1800s and words by Ngiyampaa Elder Peter Williams explore the ongoing mystery of yahoo encounters. 'He was surprised to observe a hairy human form, about seven feet in height, walking in the bush.' Queanbeyan Age, 24 August 1886. Throughout the first century or so of Australian settlement by Europeans, the pages of colonial newspapers were haunted by reports of a bewildering phenomenon: the mysterious yahoo or hairy man ... But what was it? Yahoo Creek breathes life into this little-known piece of Australian history - which, by many accounts, is a history still in the making. 'These stories are not my stories or your stories, they're our stories.' Peter Williams, Ngiyampaa Elder
Bibliography Includes bibliographical references
Audience Ages 7-11
Notes Shortlisted by the Children's Book Council of Australia (CBCA) for the 2020 "Eve Pownall Award"
Subject Monsters -- Juvenile literature
Animals, Mythical -- Juvenile literature
Aboriginal Australians -- Folklore -- Juvenile literature
Curiosities and wonders -- Australia -- Juvenile literature
Monsters -- Australia -- Juvenile literature
Animals, Mythical -- Australia -- Juvenile literature
Animals -- Australia -- Juvenile literature
Cryptozoology -- Australia -- Juvenile literature
Primates -- Australia -- Juvenile literature
Monsters in mass media -- Juvenile literature
Frontier and pioneer life -- Australia -- Juvenile literature
Australia -- History -- 19th century -- Juvenile literature
Australia -- History -- 1901-1922 -- Juvenile literature
Australia -- Folklore
Genre/Form Folklore.
History.
Juvenile works.
Author Williams, Peter, author