A light-hearted look at Greek Island life in verse.
The dreaded motorbikes are found on every island, as are charming villages, friendly people, wine, cheese and fresh bread, all tasting good whichever island you happen to be on.
An Australian version of Jack and the Beanstalk theme but instead of climbing to the clouds our hero ends up in the ocean, followed by a sausage barbecue on the beach.
About a nice grandfather and a nasty uncle who is eaten by a shark to the satisfaction of all except the uncle, who was never happy anyway.
Written by Oochoyung, and illustrated by Ron Edwards.
Erubai the pig runs amok, causing chaos!
A children's story set in the Torres Strait Islands.
Autobiography of Islander Thomas Lowah (1914-1989) He tells of his life as a diver on pearling luggers, sailing the waters of the Torres Strait and working down the Great Barrier Reef. Conditions were so hard that the skipper would not let the divers out of the water to eat their lunch of damper and syrup, but would hand it down to them to eat while they trod water.??One of the first autobiographies of a Torres Strait Islander and a unique document of a way of life that is parallel to, but quite different from, life in the white community. Illustrated by Ray Crooke.
Part 2 of the 4 part autobiography of Ron Edwards from 1959-1965
Two Wild Colonial Boys? A search for connections between two bushranging songs.
By Sydney H. Ray. Edited and illustrated by Ron Edwards.
The only available dictionary of Eastern and Western Island languages. Drawn from Reports of the Cambridge Anthropological Expedition to Torres Straits.
By Dr. Anna Shnukal. Illustrated by Ron Edwards. This dictionary contains almost 4,000 common words and phrases. Also included are culturally significant place names, customs, games, mythical beings, flora and fauna, seasons, stars and constellations.
