Red Tit and Brown Tit / retold by Alex Barlow ; illustrated by Ellen Jose
- Bib ID:
- 1133546
- Format:
- Book
- Author:
- Barlow, Alex
- Description:
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- South Melbourne, Vic. : Macmillan Company of Australia, 1991
- 24 p. : col. ill. ; 22 cm.
- ISBN:
- 0732904005
- Series:
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- Australian legends.
- Southern Cross. 1. Satellite.
- Summary:
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A story from the Pitta-Pitta people who own the land around Boulia, a town in Western Queensland. It tells of how red tit came to have a red head and breast and brown tit a flattened head and beak.
- Notes:
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- "An expanded version of the Pitta-Pitta story originally recorded by W.E. Roth in the first volume of his The Queensland Aborigines published in 1897" --Inside front cover.
- For children.
- Subject:
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- Readers (Primary)
- Readers -- Aboriginal Australians -- Folklore
- Birds -- Australia -- Folklore
- Readers -- Birds -- Australia
- Aboriginal Australians -- Ethnozoology -- Queensland -- Juvenile literature
- Literature and stories - Juvenile
- Stories and motifs - Birds
- Pitta Pitta / Bittha Bittha people (G6) (Qld SF54-10)
- Boulia (Qld Far West SF54-10)
- Other authors/contributors:
- Jose, Ellen
- Copyright:
-
In Copyright
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- Material type:
- Literary Dramatic Musical
- Published status:
- Published
- Publication date:
- 1991
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