Author: Brunato, Madeleine; Wood, C. Dudley (illustrator).
Title: Worra and the Jilbruke Legend.
Description: London Frederick Muller, 1973. Hardback small quarto, dustjacket, very good condition (in very good dustjacket), colour drawings, spine ends & bottom edges lightly rubbed, minor edgewear jacket (small mark front cover, rear cover little rubbed), owner's written name title page. 37 pp. (Estimated date, 1973, originally published Rigby 1972.) This children's picture story is about life in the Kaurna tribe of South Australia. It is seen through the eyes of Worra, the boy born on the night when the Wind Spirit raged. The author has combined careful research with imagination to tell an unusual story, based on the culture and lifestyle of a tribe which existed for countless centuries but has been long extinct. ISBN: 0584970471

Keywords: children's literature, aborigines, indigenous, folklore, mythology, south australia 0584970471


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