HOW THE BIRDS GOT THEIR COLOURS : An Aboriginal Story

Exciting for an early reader's story!

I love love love the illustrations in this, done by a very young Pamela Lofts. The first time I read this I was probably like six, and I looked at the illustrations -- the loose paint spilling across the page and was like "I could draw those!"

It made it so accessible and all the more important to me.

This is the story of how birds got their colours in the Dreamtime until ...

Still love it.

This represents a Myth because it contains religious beliefs of past cultures. It explains the mystery of how birds got their colors. This would be a great book to share with students because of the religion and philosophy that is behind it.

This book is a legend from Austraila and Albert, Mary is from the Bardi tribe who tells the story to the Aboriginal children living it Broome, in Western Austraila. I wouldn't use this book in the classroom. It is to much. One line in the story is from a brid saying "I am dieing". Also it might cross some moral issues with parents because it decribes how the birds got to be all different colors.

This books is about how birds got their colors. It starts out by explaining that all birds used to be one color, black, until one day when the when a bird landed on a sharp stick and cut his foot. A little dove dove down and hit the birds foot with a beak and suddenly color splashed every, splashing on all of the birds that came to help and that is how birds got their color.

There was a bird, and he went down and landed on a stick, injuring his foot. He laid hurt for a few days, until the parrot stuck its beak in the hurt foot, and colors went everywhere, coloring the birds and the surroundings.

FROM PUBLISHER'S INFO:
This delightful book is based on a story told by Mary Albert, of the Bardi people, to Aboriginal children living in Broome, Western Australia. The illustrations are adapted from their paintings of the story.