Yahoo Creek : an Australian mystery / Tohby Riddle with Peter Williams.
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TextPublisher: Crows Nest, N.S.W. : Allen & Unwin, 2019Copyright date: ©2019Description: 32 unnumbered pages : illustrations (some colour) ; 29 cmContent type: still image | text Media type: unmediated Carrier type: volumeISBN: 9781760631451Subject(s): 1800-1922 | Animals, Mythical -- Folklore -- Juvenile literature | Monsters in mass media -- Australia -- Juvenile literature | Monsters -- Australia -- Pictorial works -- Juvenile literature | Children's stories -- Pictorial works | Aboriginal Australians | Animals | Animals, Mythical | Australian fiction | Australian newspapers | Cryptozoology | Curiosities and wonders | Frontier and pioneer life | Monsters | Monsters in mass media | Primates | Animals -- Australia -- Juvenile literature | Wangaaypuwan language D18 | Wangaaypuwan people D18 | Stories and motifs - Devils, monsters, evil spirits, hairy men, bunyips | Monsters -- Folklore -- Juvenile literature | Aboriginal Australians -- Folklore -- Juvenile literature | Animals, Mythical -- Australia -- Juvenile literature | Monsters -- Australia -- Juvenile literature | Cryptozoology -- Australia -- Juvenile literature | Frontier and pioneer life -- Australia -- Juvenile literature | Monsters in mass media -- Juvenile literature | Curiosities and wonders -- Australia -- Juvenile literature | Australian newspapers -- Juvenile literature | Picture books | Australia | Hillston (SW NSW SI55-06) | Australia -- Folklore -- Juvenile literature | Australia -- History -- 1901-1922 -- Juvenile literature | Australia -- History -- 19th century -- Juvenile literature | EnglishGenre/Form: Children's stories | Sophisticated picture books | Picture books | Historical fiction. | Children's stories | Sophisticated picture books | Fiction. | Folklore. | Historical fiction. | History. | Juvenile works. DDC classification: 398.2/0994 | 398.2/1 | A823.4 | 001.9440994 LOC classification: PR8274.I317 | Y34 2019Awards: Children's Book Council of Australia Shortlist, 2020.Summary: 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.
| Item type | Current library | Collection | Call number | Status | Date due | Barcode |
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| wnor- Book | Northam Northam Modern Languages | Australian Stories | QJ 398 . 2 RID (Browse shelf(Opens below)) | Available | 31111074570241 |
Yahoo Creek includes the words of Aboriginal Elder, Peter Williams, Ngiyampaa Elder, North West NSW, which are integral to the telling of this story. ... Uncle Pete says, particularly in relation to the quote on page 32:''This is what I was taught from my Elder Uncle Paul Gordon''' -- Afterword.
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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.
8+
Culturally sensitive
Children's Book Council of Australia Shortlist, 2020.
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