Possum Skin Cloak

By: Aunty Fay Muir, Sue Lawson, Leanne Jones (Illustrator)

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Hardcover | 28 July 2026

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Age
5 - 12

Dimensions(cm)
24.5 x 24.5 x 1

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When you are born your mother and your aunties wrap you in a possum skin.

Your possum skin holds you and you grow together. It tells who you are and where you come from. It keeps you always in the warmth of belonging.

About the Author

Aunty Fay Muir is a senior Boon Wurrung and Wamba Wamba Elder, First Nations community leader and Koori Court Elder. She is a Language Specialist, working as a prison educator in First Nations languages and is a creative language revival consultant and collaborator.

Sue Lawson’s books have won the Australian Family Therapists’ Award for Children’s Literature and have been short-listed for the Prime Minister’s Literary Awards and the Children’s Book Council of Australia Book of the Year Awards.

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