Traditional Torres Strait Island Book Collection

Traditional Torres Strait Island Cooking book

Weaving Palm Fronds Pastimes book

Songs from Warraber Song book

Making Kulap Shakers with Athe Book

Authors

Althea McKeown is an advocate and champion for Early Childhood Education and Care in the Torres Strait. Althea is a trainer, teacher, child safety advocate, Foster Carer, mother, grandmother and respected community member at Nurapoi (Horn Island) in the Torres Straits.

Ron Edwards began his life long association with publishing in 1950 with a short run of books featuring linocuts which was printed on a screw press. He had recently graduated from Swinburn Institute of Technology with a Diploma in Art, and was working as a teacher in the printing department at the college.

Ron had an interest in collecting folk music and Australian folklore from an early age, and began printing short runs of books on both subjects. The early interest continued for the whole of his life and today his books have become an important historical collection preserving Australia’s cultural heritage