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The stories are based on people and events as told to Pat Lowe by Jimmy Pike

and playing games in the bush with their cousins

In telling his great-grandfather’s story

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A rollicking yarn that draws on the legends of the outback

Spinifex Mouse Ubby's The stories are based onSpinifex Mouse is the heartwarming tale of Cheeky, a spinifex hopping mouse, who lives in the Pilbara region of Western Australia. Cheeky is an adventurous little mouse who loves to leap high into the air and practice acrobatic tricks. Every morning, when his family have returned to their burrow to sleep after a nights foraging, Cheeky sneaks out again to look for more food and practice his flips. Each day, he ventures a little further from the