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A collection of Aboriginal legends, newspaper articles, short stories, poems, and historical reports concerning the dreaded Australian creature known as the bunyip. Contains the outline of her novel for older readers, Escape by Deluge (1989) in which Shelley frees an ancient bunyip trapped in a Melbourne drain.

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Authors include Cliff Green, Kath Walker, Alan Marshall, Launcelot Harrison, J. R. Lockyear, Rex Ingamells, Edel Wignell, K. Langloh Parker, John Manifold, John Morgan and Max Fatchen.

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There’s a Bunyip Close Behind us / And he’s Treading on my Tail ... Fred Ludowyk , 2008 single work column
— Appears in: Ozwords , October vol. 17 no. 2 2008; (p. 1-3)

Untitled John D. Adams , 1982 single work review
— Appears in: Reading Time : The Journal of the Children's Book Council of Australia , April no. 83 1982; (p. 49-50)
— Review of A Boggle of Bunyips 1981 anthology extract children's fiction poetry prose non-fiction

There’s a Bunyip Close Behind us / And he’s Treading on my Tail ... Fred Ludowyk , 2008 single work column
— Appears in: Ozwords , October vol. 17 no. 2 2008; (p. 1-3)

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