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A fun Dreaming story about the creation of the Murray Cod Fish, Yellow Belly Carp Fish and the transforming Murray-Darling Basin. The story comes with an encouraging message of celebrating differences, learning from mistakes and looking to the future. In the Dreamtime there lived the Goodoo and Thuggai peoples. They looked different to the Murri people who lived near by. While the Murri s lived in the rocky overhangs and hunted bigger animals, the Goodoo people lived under the shade of the Coolabah trees and would dig up witchetty grubs. The Murri feared the Goodoo and Thuggai, and their differences. It is up to the Ancestral Beings and the Clever Man, Biamme, to teach the Murris, Goodoo and Thuggai and to remind them that differences are part of the Dreaming Creation. Gregg Dreise is a proud descendant of the Gomeroi/Kamilaroi and Euahlayi people of south-west Queensland and north-west New South Wales. His storytelling shows his pride in his Indigenous culture, and he creates beautiful morality tales to help us all to rise up to be our best. His Cultural stories have a wonderful way of showing the actions of animals to help us humans to grow up with morals and respect.His other titles published by Magabala Books are: Silly Birds, Kookoo Kookaburra, Mad Magpie, Awesome Emu, Cunning Crow, Super Snake, Lethal Lizards. Other works published by Puffin include: Days of Warmth (2024), Today s Sun (2021), Circles of Life (2024), Hello and Welcome (2021), My Culture and Me (2019). A fun Dreaming story about the creation of the Murray Cod Fish, Yellow Belly Carp Fish and the transforming Murray-Darling Basin. The story comes with an encouraging message of celebrating differences, learning from mistakes and looking to the future.