Zillah Bethell

The Song Walker is an extraordinary new story of friendship, discovery and courage from Zillah Bethell, author of The Shark Caller which won the Wales Book of the Year and the Edward Stanford Children's Travel Book of the Year 2022. "There are three questions that I need to find the answers to: Where am I? What am I doing here? And... Who am I?" When a young girl wakes up in the middle of the desert, she has no idea who she is. She's wearing one shoe, a silky black dress, and she's carrying a strange, heavy case. She meets Tarni, who is on a mysterious quest of her own. Together, the two girls trek across the vast and ever-changing Australian Outback in search of answers. Except both are also hiding secrets...

The Song Walker

Stefie 

«The paths we use for travelling. You see, we don't draw our maps. We sing them. For thousands of vears our ancestors have walked their way across the country. To help them know the way, they put all the important features into a song, So, a watering hole, or a real odd- shaped tree. A hill or a deadly salt pan. Things like that. Sometimes it might be the colour of the sky or a mist that gets trapped in a valley. Might be words or it might be a change in the tune or the rhythm. And as you sing the song, you name all the important things to look out tor to show you that you are going in the right direction."

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