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The Great Western Woodlands in Western Australia is a beautiful place that many plants and animals call home. Walk slowly through these pages, can you see the pygmy possum, honeyeater and plonking frog? Look carefully through the woodlands, it's a magical place with so much to see.

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Sara's parents immigrated in 1956 from Yorkshire, England as 10-pound poms. Sara was born in St John of God Hospital in Subiaco and spent the first few months of her life in Cottesloe, before the family moved to Lesmurdie, in the Perth Hills. She went to Lesmurdie Primary School and later Kalamunda High School. As a child, Sara loved the bush around Lesmurdie and spent a lot of time in it on her own. The family then moved to Maida Vale to a rural setting. She never settled. After one year at WAIT (now Curtin University) studying language, literature, culture, journalism and history, Sara took off and travelled to Far North Queensland, where she lived in a rainforest. It was there that Sara had her first child, a bush baby she called Ayr. Returning to Western Australia, to Toodyay, Sara married and raised a family of five children. In 2006, she moved to the WA Goldfields where she worked in various roles, many of them working closely with the Aboriginal Community getting to know, at times, several generations of the same family. Together with Elvis Moody, an Indigenous Artist, Sara recently completed a book tour of Leonora, Laverton and Mount Margaret community schools, talking about her first book, 'The St John's Cross Spider'. The tour was well-received and they are looking forward to returning to the schools in 2021received 2021 with Sara's new book 'Where Wild Emus Roam'. Elvis Moody was born in 1955 at Northam Hospital in the West Australian Wheatbelt. He grew up in Toodyay where he went to school, played football and basketball. For most of his adult life, Elvis has enjoyed art. He started painting when he was 25 and carved emu eggs to pass the time away. While living in the Eastern States, Elvis met his wife and with her had a family of six children. A lot of his art has revolved around children. Elvis has done a lot of painting and art activities with children around the Perth area. Together with his wife, he was an artist with the Education Department. While his wife read books and sang songs, Elvis would do artwork and play the didgeridoo. They then became House Parents in the Christian Aboriginal Parent Directed School (CAPS) in Coolgardie. The boarding school was an initiative of Morgan Sercombe from the Brethren Church accepting Aboriginal students from the local community as well as communities in the Central Desert and Northern Territory Arnhem Land. They were there for 13 years. Sadly, his wife had cancer and she wanted to spend her last days back home over East, where she died. Elvis also had cancer but never told his wife. He survived and came back to the West. Since then he has been caring for his 90-year-old mother and spending time with his brothers and cousins. Lately, Elvis has been painting totem poles, as well as his other art and has pieces on display in the Bilya Koort Boodja Centre for Nyoongar Culture and Environmental Knowledge located in the Shire of Northam.

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