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Brisbane: Jacaranda Press, 1967. 450 g; VI, 46 pages, illustrated throughout with colour drawings. The colour illustrated dustwrapper matches the colour illustrated boards beneath. The dustwrapper has a 5.0 inch tear on the rear panel starting at the lower left-hand corner and travelling towards the centre, which has been taped, and as a result stained, a smaller tear of approximately 0 .5 "on the bottom edge of the rear panel, central and rubbing and chipping of the top edge of the dust jacket, with the spine section reinforced with tape again from the underside. A digital image is available of the damage upon request. "Uncle Willie McKenzie is the last surviving member of the Darwarbada tribe which roamed the area from Boupyjan to Kilcoy in Queensland. In the aboriginal world, the Legends and lore were passed from generation to generation by the uncles of the tribe.. Fearful that the Legends might be lost, Uncle Willie asked his niece, Sylvia Cairns, to write them down for her own children and children everywhere. These legends are about aboriginals who are "Goundir".Goundirs were selected when they were very youngest they had a special talent for reading another person's mind and for sending messages to people who were far away. They went to a special school, "Munull", where they learned to fly through the air and to heal by the use of mad powers. They were the doctors of the Darwarbada tribe. As Uncle Willie says "you don't need to consider whether the stories are of humans, animals, stars, rocks or hills. All nature was one family. Everyone shared a oneness."". -- front fold over blurb. First Edition. Illustrated Boards. Very Good/Good. Illus. by Fred Cobbo. Oblong Quarto. aboriginal -- Children's.