Cloudmaker
1st Edition
Published on 7. August 2025
48 pages
978-1-922777-83-6 (ISBN)
Description
Cloudmaker is a fictional picture book, that encourages imagination and discussions amongst young readers about friendship, change, purpose and creation. Long ago, Cloudmaker was busy preparing for the creation of worlds. As an ancestral being he had an important job to do, to create clouds. He made sure there were enough clouds for shade, rain and light. Cloudmaker loved making clouds, but he grew sad as he realised the end of his journey was close and he had made all the clouds that were needed. He knew things would change forever. His lightness of being became heavier and heavier and he soon became so heavy he sank to the Earth. Here the birds lifted his spirits and he floated up and joined his favourite cloud and friend Cirra. He cried tears of sadness and joy and a tear landed on the tip of his wing and he created a rainbow that encircled the whole of Earth. He would live on forever in the rainbow.
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Helen Milroy is a born storyteller and a talented artist. She is a descendant of the Palyku people of the Pilbara region of Western Australia, but was born and educated in Perth. Currently Helen is the University of Western Australia and Perth Children's Hospital Foundation Professor in Child and Adolescent Psychiatry and Commissioner with the National Mental Health Commission. Helen has been on state and national mental health and research advisory committees and boards with a particular focus on Indigenous mental health as well as the wellbeing of children. From 2013-2017 Helen was a Commissioner for the Royal Commission into Institutional Responses to Child Sexual Abuse. In 2019, Helen was also appointed as a Commissioner with the Australian Football League.
