Growing up in the Desert: Stories told with leaves (DVD) Ubby's Fern Martins illustrations seamlessly portray

Fern Martins illustrations seamlessly portray the dramatic skies

he ventures a little further from the burrow

YOUNGER READERS

Before too long Marnie is gifted Mrs Margaret ‘Maggie’ Whitlam

her rich colourful illustrations are filled with texture and movement

Growing up in the Desert: Stories told with leaves (DVD) Ubby's Fern Martins illustrations seamlessly portrayJukuna Mona Chuguna (c. 1940 2011) grew up in the Great Sandy Desert with her family of hunters and gatherers. As a young women she left her homeland with her husband to live on cattle stations. This DVD is a rare video recording of an ancient method of storytelling, and a first hand account of life in the Great Sandy Desert before contact with white people. The stories were recorded in the bed of the Fitzroy River in 1989 1990. They are told in