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20 pages

36 pages

32 pages

A story written as part of a project to make books available for indigenous communities that the children can relate to. 14 pages, colour illustrations.

Edited by Ron and Anne Edwards. Stories and drawings from children of the Sacred Heart School, Thursday Island Primary School and the Horn Island School. 32 pages.

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. 234 pages.

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. 148 pages.

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. 148 pages.

By Oochuyung, a Wik girl, with illustrations by Ron Edwards. Her second book (after Sand Beach Girl) tells a simple childhood story with supernatural overtones. 32 pages, colour illustrations.

The Stephen Island children enjoyed this story about an incident involving people from another island. (Possibly unsuitable for other schools as local drunks and violence is mentioned?) 20 pages.

This book gives step by step instructions on how the Torres Strait people make all sorts of fun things from coconut fronds. These include birds, stars, fish, balls, wands and hats. 17 projects and 277 drawings. 64 pages.

18 songs, 24 pages

22 songs, 32 pages.

28 songs, 40 pages.

7 songs, 12 pages.

22 songs, 28 pages.

32 songs, 40 pages.

A rhyming story set in the Torres Strait. Part of a program to produce local stories for Indigenous children. This one is for younger children and has large type. 12 pages.

Tells of traditional Cape York life in verse and drawing. Published originally as a limited edition, this edited paperback version is for school use. 36 pages.

Few Australians know anything about the Torres Strait and its people where a distinctive type of traditional tropical cooking has evolved, drawing on the Pacific Islands and Asia. A majority of sales of this book occur where young islanders are re-discovering their traditional cuisine. Condiments used are generally available but other ingredients are rather exotic! Simple traditional ingredients, traditional island methods, creating tasty traditional food, based on spices, coconut milk and a variety of sea food. 84 pages.

A children’s book by Islander Anna Larry with illustrations by Ron Edwards. Written in Torres Strait Creole. An English text is also provided. 24 pages.