My Girragundji Analysis

This children’s fiction combines the talents of Meme McDonald and Boori Pryor, published in October 1998, My girragundji. With a touching and short story of 84 pages, this book will be enjoyed by all. Though a story focused on aboriginal myth and culture, it will appeal to any child frightened of the dark. An aboriginal boy who is afraid of a bad spirit, the Hairyman, who roams the boy's house at night. When he befriends a green tree frog, ‘girragundji’ he realises that his ancestors have sent her to protect him and that he can face his fears.

The Hairyman is depicted as a bad spirit in the boy’s house, but in one of his kindred’s house, it is a friendlier spirit. The narrator also has a small love interest, who is a female ‘migaloo’ (white