The goori goori bird
Subtitle: a legend of the Bidjara people of the upper Warrego
By: written by Grahame L. Walsh ; illustrated by John Morrison.
Contributors: Morrison, John, 1938 May 24- ill.
Publisher: University of Queensland Press; Distributed in the USA and Canada by Technical Impex Corp.
Published: 1984
Place of publication: St. Lucia, Queensland, Australia; Lawrence, Mass
Language: eng
Number of pages: 52
Subjects: Aboriginal Australians -- Folklore.; Folklore -- Australia.
Genres: Folklore.
Description: A retelling of an Aboriginal legend from Queensland in which the child-stealing Goori Goori bird meets his match in the boy Wangurd and the punishment for his misdeeds creates the Milky Way.