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Issue Details: First known date: 2000... 2000 Kupi-Kupi and the Girl
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'A traditional bilingual story from Areyonga in the Northern Territory. A whimsical account of a young girl who spends all her days chasing willy-willys. One day, the Kupi-Kupi spirits her far away to a waterhole, where she is guarded by a giant watersnake. Her bold rescue by a witchdoctor restores her to her family.' Source: www.magabala.com (Sighted 14/05/2007).

Publication Details of Only Known VersionEarliest 2 Known Versions of

Alternative title: Tjukurpa kungka munu kupi-kupitjara
Language: Aboriginal Pitjantjatjara AIATSIS ref. (C6) (NT SG52-11) NT, SA , English

Works about this Work

Place and Politics : Aboriginal Texts for Children Clare Bradford , 2002 single work essay
— Appears in: Viewpoint : On Books for Young Adults , Summer vol. 10 no. 4 2002; (p. 3-6)
[Untitled] 2001 single work review
— Appears in: Koori Mail , 8 August no. 257 2001; (p. 47)

— Review of Kupi-Kupi and the Girl Daphne Punytjina Burton , 2000 single work picture book ; The Best Little Knitter in the West Sermsah Suri Bin Saad , 2000 single work picture book
Untitled Kathy Forward , 2000 single work review
— Appears in: Reading Time : The Journal of the Children's Book Council of Australia , November vol. 44 no. 4 2000; (p. 28-29)

— Review of Kupi-Kupi and the Girl Daphne Punytjina Burton , 2000 single work picture book
Three New Children's Books from Indigenous Publishing Houses: And Questions of Appropriation Terry Whitebeach , 2000 single work review
— Appears in: Australian Women's Book Review , vol. 12 no. 1 2000;

— Review of Kupi-Kupi and the Girl Daphne Punytjina Burton , 2000 single work picture book ; Anna the Goanna and Other Poems Jill McDougall , 2000 selected work poetry ; Down the Hole, Up the Tree, Across the Sandhills : Running From the State and Daisy Bates Edna Tantjingu Williams , Eileen Wani Wingfield , 2000 single work picture book autobiography
Untitled Kathy Forward , 2000 single work review
— Appears in: Reading Time : The Journal of the Children's Book Council of Australia , November vol. 44 no. 4 2000; (p. 28-29)

— Review of Kupi-Kupi and the Girl Daphne Punytjina Burton , 2000 single work picture book
Three New Children's Books from Indigenous Publishing Houses: And Questions of Appropriation Terry Whitebeach , 2000 single work review
— Appears in: Australian Women's Book Review , vol. 12 no. 1 2000;

— Review of Kupi-Kupi and the Girl Daphne Punytjina Burton , 2000 single work picture book ; Anna the Goanna and Other Poems Jill McDougall , 2000 selected work poetry ; Down the Hole, Up the Tree, Across the Sandhills : Running From the State and Daisy Bates Edna Tantjingu Williams , Eileen Wani Wingfield , 2000 single work picture book autobiography
[Untitled] 2001 single work review
— Appears in: Koori Mail , 8 August no. 257 2001; (p. 47)

— Review of Kupi-Kupi and the Girl Daphne Punytjina Burton , 2000 single work picture book ; The Best Little Knitter in the West Sermsah Suri Bin Saad , 2000 single work picture book
Place and Politics : Aboriginal Texts for Children Clare Bradford , 2002 single work essay
— Appears in: Viewpoint : On Books for Young Adults , Summer vol. 10 no. 4 2002; (p. 3-6)
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