Author: Edwards, Pat; Stackpool, Walter (illustrator).
Title: Who Made the Sun?: An Aboriginal Legend Retold.
Description: Sydney, Frenchs Forest Reed, 1984. Reprint ed. Hardback small octavo, no jacket, very good condition, pictorial covers, colour illustrations, rear endpapers illustrated, corner tips covers & spine ends little scuffed, covers slightly rubbed, spine little faded, light foxing inside front cover & title page. 29 pp. This Aboriginal legend for children is about long ago when there was only the moon and stars to give light. One day when a Brolga became angry she stole an emu's egg and threw it away. It burst and set fire to some sticks, and this became what we now know as the Sun. A kookaburra named Gougourgahgah, saved the light by laughing when the morning star starts to fade. ISBN: 0730100316

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