Each day of the week Savannah’s family found food. On Sunday they went fishing in the creek. 'Her father caught five mottled rock cod. Her mother caught four stripy mangrove jacks. Her sister caught three whiskery catfish. Her brother caught two silvery long toms. And Savannah caught one …' and imagined that the one stroller wheel was the eye of a 'GREAT BIG barramundi'.
The structure is repetitive, with the family food-gathering on consecutive days in the bush, mangroves, billabong and elsewhere. Numbers feature, as father always catches five items, mother four and so one. Adjectives depict each food, and descriptions of Savannah’s finds (which eventually form a barramundi sculpture) are written in capital letters. The stylised illustrations in this picture book are bright and bold, with trees, mountains, sky and clouds shown in blocks of colour. Elaine Russell grew up near Lake Cargellico, NSW. Lolla Stewart has lived on remote Aboriginal communities in the ‘top end’.
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