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Writing name for: Donald Gordon Payne
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1 1 y separately published work icon How Turtle Got His Shell And Other Stories James Vance Marshall , Francis Firebrace (illustrator), Walker Books Australia , 2015 8722238 2015 selected work short story Indigenous story

'How did turtle get his shell? Why do young koalas cling to their mothers' backs? How was the mighty Murray River created? Ten witty retellings of legends, some of them from the Yorta Yorta people, to delight readers of all ages.' (Publication summary)
1 3 y separately published work icon More Stories from the Billabong James Vance Marshall , Francis Firebrace (illustrator), Newtown : Walker Books Australia , 2013 5984170 2013 single work picture book children's
2 2 y separately published work icon Stories from the Billabong James Vance Marshall , Francis Firebrace (illustrator), London : Frances Lincoln Children's Books , 2008 Z1588781 2008 selected work picture book children's

This picture book contains stories such as, The Rainbow Serpent and the Story of Creation; How the Kangaroo Got Her Pouch; Why Frogs Can Only Croak; Why Brolgas Dance; Why the Platypus Is Such a Special Creature; The Mountain Rose; The Two Moths and the Flowers of the Mountain; How the Crocodile Got Its Scales; The Lizard-Man and the Creation of Uluru; The Butterflies and the Mystery of Death.
2 y separately published work icon A Walk to the Hills of the Dreamtime James Vance Marshall , New York (City) : M. S. Mill and William Morrow , 1970 Z1544892 1970 single work children's fiction children's 'Sarah, fourteen, and Joey, eleven, are brother and sister, the children of an Aborigine mother and a Japanese pearl diver. For most of their lives, they have lived at the Melville Island Mission, where they have been Christianised and educated. As the story opens they are being transported by truck far into the interior, where they are to live and work on a station. Beyond Alice Springs the truck is struck by a tornado and completely demolished, the driver killed. Joey knows that they are now in the country of his people, and at his insistence they start out to walk to the hills of the Dreamtime...' (Dust jacket)
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