Bush Games and Knucklebones

Description

This picture book is based on the childhood of Doris Katinyeri, who was taken from her parents as a baby and put into the Colebrook Home in South Australia, where she stayed for the next fourteen years. Despite the traumatic background, this book is largely a cheerful description of the games the children in the Home used to play. They had no expensive toys, no television or computers. But they did have the bush setting, their imaginations, and each other. They played with tin cans, with knucklebones from the Sunday roast, with sticks and flowers, and in the woodpile. They gathered bush foods and made secret gardens.