Stradbroke Dreamtime

Oodgeroo (stories)
Bronwyn’s Bancroft (illustrations)

Original published 1972 this update 1993

Note: First Nations Quandamooka people (‘people of the bay’) know North Stradbroke Island as Minjerribah meaning ‘place of many mosquitoes’.
More:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Quandamooka_people

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