Mary Ellen Jordan: 3 books

This place used to be called Mang djang karirra: the place where the Dreaming changed shape. And then the Balandas arrived, pale people from different places with tongues that couldn't make the right sounds, and these words became Maningrida. Now it is the place where the Dreaming mutates, might wither...

This is my cow, she's called Daisy. She should eat grass but she's too lazy. Instead she eats jelly, spoon after spoon, all through the morning till late afternoon. Look, look, LOOK! From a cow eating jelly, to a toe-tapping chook. What else will you find when you open this book?

"This is my cow, she's called Daisy. She should eat grass but she's too lazy. Instead she eats jelly on a spoon, all through the morning till late afternoon." This quirky, rhyming picture book about farm animals behaving badly will have children laughing and, eventually, lull them to sleep along with the tuckered-out animals.