'Based on a Torres Strait Islander creation story with illustrations by 18-year-old Tori-Jay Mordey. Bakir (rock) and Mar (storm bird) live on a remote island called Egur with their two young children. While fishing on the beach Bakir comes across a very special pelican (Bakir’s totem is a pelican) named Bi. A famine occurs, and life on the island is no longer harmonious. One day Bakir and Bi disappear and Mar and the children are forced to make the journey to another island by canoe ... and so begins the adventure. There are supernatural themes, totemic connections and kinship relationships — and the island names are imaginary as are the characters. The moral of the story is that everyone has a destiny and a purpose in life.' (Publication summary)
Bid Buai : Dolphin People
United States of America (USA)
:
Balboa Press
,
2021
28068663
2021
single work
children's fiction
children's
'Bid Buai, Dolphin People is the sequel to the story Bakir and Bi published in 2013 by Magabala Books. It is a fictional creation story set in the islands of the Torres Strait, Far North Queensland, Australia, before colonization. Mar, Tam and Lusik are now much older and life has settled on their island of Ekiam. Tam soon stumbles across a mystical charm that was stolen from the Mabagal Clan of the West. When Iriana, the charm, falls into the wrong hands, it brings misfortune. So the journey begins with the rightful owners travelling through the islands in search of Iriana to bring back home and restore their once prosperous lifestyle. This story is interwoven with supernatural themes, totemic connections, kinship relations, language terms and customs that are true to Torres Strait Islander Culture.'
Source: Publisher's blurb.
'This tiny book, Bakir and Bi, written by Torres Strait Islander Jillian Boyd and illustrated by her niece, Tori-Jay Mordey, is like a key that opens a box of Torres Strait geographical history, local languages, traditional stories and customs, and cultural invasion...' (Introduction)
'This tiny book, Bakir and Bi, written by Torres Strait Islander Jillian Boyd and illustrated by her niece, Tori-Jay Mordey, is like a key that opens a box of Torres Strait geographical history, local languages, traditional stories and customs, and cultural invasion...' (Introduction)
