Why the Koala Cries – Yaygirr Book
$25.00
Description
Why the Koala Cries
As told by Aunty Della Walker Sr
Illustrated by Frances Belle Parker
Buillbree loves to climb trees.
He would play in the treetops all day long if his mother would let him. He wishes he could live in the trees forever.
But Buillbree learns, too late, that sometimes you have to be careful what you wish for.
A story from the Dreaming
ISBN 978-1-7636172-0-9
ABOUT THE AUTHOR
Della Walker Sr was born on Ulgundahi Island.
She moved to Bundjalung country, between Tabulam and Yamba in north-eastern New South Wales, when she married William Walker of the Bundjalung tribe. Della spoke three Aboriginal languages, Yaygirr, Bundjalung and Gumbainggir, and she was a well respected Elder of the Yaegl and Bundjalung tribes.
The story Why the Koala Cries comes from the Yaegl people of the lower Clarence River on the northern coast of New South Wales. The story was originally told by Della’s grandmother, Jessie Laurie Larego of the Yaegl people.
Della Walker Sr (1932-2004)
