Fast Fish
1st Edition
Published on 5. May 2025
32 pages
978-1-922777-74-4 (ISBN)
Description
Fast Fish is the third book in the popular 'Scales and Tails' series and is based on a traditional story about the creation of the Murray Cod Fish, Yellow Belly Carp Fish and the transforming Murray-Darling Basin. The story comes with an encouraging message of celebrating differences, learning from mistakes and looking to the future. In the Dreamtime there lived the Goodoo and Thuggai peoples. They looked different to the Murri people who lived nearby. While the Murri's lived in the rocky overhangs and hunted bigger animals, the Goodoo people lived under the shade of the Coolabah trees and would dig up witchetty grubs. The Murri feared the Goodoo and Thuggai, and their differences. It is up to the Ancestral Beings and the Clever Man, Biamme, to teach the Murris, Goodoo and Thuggai and to remind them that differences are part of the Dreaming Creation.
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Person
Gregg Dreise is a gifted artist, storyteller and musician, and he features the didgeridoo and guitar in his performances at schools, libraries and festivals. He is a descendant of the Kamilaroi and Euahlayi people of south-west Queensland and north-west New South Wales. He is the author and illustrator of Cunning Crow; Silly Birds; Kookoo Kookaburra; Mad Magpie and My Culture and Me. All these stories are about teaching morals. They address self-image, friendship, kindness, bullying and Indigenous culture. Gregg is also the illustrator of the classic story Tiddalik the Frog (Pearson Publishing) and has poetry with his illustrations in the anthology A Boat of Stars; and illustrations in High 5 to the Boys and contributions towards Why I Love Australia. He has a Children's Music CD titled Sing. Dance. Walk Together.
