![]() Adams is also the illustrator of Christobel Mattingley's Tucker's Mob (1992). The English version employs the voice of Aurukun storytellers and has been endorsed by the Aurukun community as an authentic portrayal of their lifestyle. Both books have been translated into Wik-Mungkan, a major language of the Aurukun Aboriginal people. Betty Long, The Diamond SeekersJack Everett, Well Go to Coney. Crafts from Aurukun : design for a local environment Going for oysters / written and illustrated by Jeanie Adams. She drew on her experience at Aurukun when writing her first children's books, Pigs and Honey (1989) and Going for Oysters (1991), the former winning the Children's Book Council of Australia Book of the Year Award for Younger Readers. Dying to Win/Betrayed/In Too Deep/Over the Edge/From the Ashes (Jennie McGrady Mystery. ![]() In 1984 she returned to Melbourne and completed a B.Ed (Art & Craft) degree. In 1976 she and her family moved to Aurukun, a remote Aboriginal Community in the Far North of Australia. ![]() in Sociology and Anthropology at Monash University then taught for some time in Victorian schools before becoming a lecturer in Sociology at the Royal Melbourne Institute of Technology. ![]() Jeanie Adams was born at Hamilton, Victoria. ![]()
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