Be like a bird ... outstretch your wings.

 

Begin the journey of learning something new!

 

🕊️ Just fly 🕊️...

 

as you never know where your wings will take you!!

 

~ Paula St L 2022 🌻

 

 

"I kept always two books in my pocket, one to read, one to write in."

 

~ Robert Louis Stevenson

 

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Check out Paula's Reading Nook 2025 here and Children's Bookshelf 2025 here!

Try your local library for a copy. 

If the book is not available, request an inter-library loan or suggest a purchase!

Best wishes, Paula 🌻

 

 

 august 2026

Wise Women of the Dreamtime

Aboriginal Tales of the Ancestral Powers

by K. Langloh Parker

Edited with commentary by Johanna Lambert

Published 1993

Find out more about the book here.

Check out this link to read an article about Katie Langloh Parker

entitled "An Empathetic Female Ethnographer in Australia: The Life and Work of Katie Langloh Parker" by Barbara Chambers Dawson.

Listen to "What Katy did: a 19th century documenter of indigenous language and stories" via ABC Listen.

 

An excerpt from the book:

Part One: Tales of the Ancestral Powers

"Wahwee and Nerida: The Water Monster and the Water Lily"

"When they were a girl and boy, Nerida and Birwain used to play beside a deep water hole.

They used to dig in the muddy margin for mussels and never knew how angry they were making Wahwee,

to whom the hole belonged.

There used to come a roar of thunder, and when it was very loud,

they used to drop their mussel shells and run home to their mothers' camps.

But they did not know that this roaring thunder was really Wahwee's voice,

threatening them with a flood if his mussel shells were not given back;

for Wahwee was the greediest of water spirits;

he would allow no one to touch anything belonging to him."

— p. 18

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Updated 27-08-2026

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AUGUST 2026 

Little Bird's Day

by Sally Morgan

Illustrated by Johnny Warrkatja Malibirr

Published 2019

Find out more about the book here.

Learn more about Sally Morgan and Johnny Warrkatja Malibirr

Watch and listen to Little Bird's Day. 

 

Below is a short extract from the book:

"Here comes the Sun,

rising and shining.

Time to wake Little Bird,

time to sing the world alive.

I warble with Sun

to wake the lazy sleepers.

Here comes wind, blowing and gusting.

Time to eat Little Bird,

time to feast in the flowers.

I circle with Wind

to reach the crimson blossoms.

Here comes Cloud, huffing and puffing.

Time to play Little Bird,

time to spin across the sky.

I travel with Cloud

to chase my feathery friends."

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Updated 27-08-2026