When the snake bites the sun / told by David Mowaljarlai ; compiled by Pamela Lofts.

By: Mowaljarlai, David Banggal, 1925-1997 [author.]Contributor(s): Lofts, Pamela [compiler.]Material type: TextTextSeries: Aboriginal storyPublisher: Sydney : Scholastic Press, 2014Copyright date: ©1984Description: [32] : colour illustrations ; 18 x 23 cmContent type: still image | text Media type: unmediated Carrier type: volumeISBN: 9781865046280; 1865046280 :Subject(s): Legends -- Western Australia -- Juvenile literature | Legends -- Australia | Folklore -- Australia -- Juvenile literature | Snakes -- Australia -- Folklore -- Juvenile literature | Aboriginal Australians -- Folklore | Aboriginal Australians | Snakes -- Western Australia -- Folklore -- Juvenile literature | Aboriginal Australians -- Western Australia -- Folklore -- Juvenile literature | Sun -- Folklore -- Juvenile literature | Snakes -- Folklore -- Juvenile literature | Indigenous peoples -- Dreaming | Aboriginal Australians | Legends | Aboriginal Australians -- Folklore -- Juvenile literature | Legends -- Australia -- Juvenile literature | Sun -- Folklore -- Juvenile literature | Sun | Sun | Australia | Sun | Sun -- Juvenile literature | juvenile non-fictionGenre/Form: Folklore. | Juvenile works. DDC classification: 398.260994 Summary: The illustrations are adapted from their paintings of the story. David Mowaljarlai said, "We want our children to see the daylight and the sun go down on our land, the home of the Dreamtime, and to live there to their old age and really understand their culture.
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Australian Aboriginal tales & legends. Texts. For children.

First published by Scholastic Australia in 1984.

The illustrations are adapted from their paintings of the story. David Mowaljarlai said, "We want our children to see the daylight and the sun go down on our land, the home of the Dreamtime, and to live there to their old age and really understand their culture.

For children.

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