Children's Book Council Book of the Year Award, Picture Book of the Year, 1983: commended for Turramulli the Giant Quinkin The Order of the British Empire, Officer of the Order of the British Empire, for Service to Aboriginal Art and Culture, 1978 These notable awards for his publications were significant in contributing to cross-cultural communication between Indigenous and non-Indigenous Australians. His cultural contributions inspired the establishment of the Gooalathaldin Memorial Community Centre, which opened in his honour on Mornington Island in 2003. Published works Autobiographical 1971 – Moon and Rainbow: The Autobiography of an Aboriginal. Reed: Sydney. 1989 – ‘School Days’, in North of Capricorn: An Anthology of Prose. (Eds: Des Petersen & Stephen Torre). Foundation for Australian Literary Studies, JCU: Townsville. 1990 – ‘Gidegal the Moon-Man’, in The Macmillan Anthology of Australian Literature. (Ed: Ken Goodwin). Palgrave Macmillan. Poetry and prose 1980 – ‘In The Old Days’, in Australian Dreaming: 40,000 Years of Aboriginal History. (Ed. and comp. Jennifer Isaacs). Lansdowne Press: Sydney. 1980 – ‘Gidegal the Moon-Man’, in Australian Dreaming: 40,000 Years of Aboriginal History. (Ed. and comp. Jennifer Isaacs). Lansdowne Press: Sydney. Children’s illustrated books 1973 – The Giant Devil Dingo. Collins: London. 1975 – The Rainbow Serpent. Collins: Sydney. 1978 – The Quinkins. (With Percy Trezise). Collins: Sydney. 1978 – The Turkey and the Emu. Harcourt Brace: Sydney. 1980 – Banana Bird and the Snake Men. (With Percy Trezise). Collins: Sydney. 1982 – Turramulli the Giant Quinkin. (With Percy Trezise). Angus & Robertson: Sydney. 1983 – The Magic Firesticks. (With Percy Trezise). Collins: Sydney. 1984 – Gidja the Moon. (With Percy Trezise). Collins: Sydney. 1985 – The Flying Fox Warriors. (With Percy Trezise). Collins: Sydney. See also Mornington Island Art Sally Gabori References Further reading Ahern, Amanda. Paint up. St Lucia: University of Queensland P, 2002. Print. Blainey, Geoffrey. Triumph of the nomads: a history of ancient Australia. Rev. ed. South Melbourne: Sun Books, 1983. Print. Butler, Sally. “A new ritual in contemporary Aboriginal Art.” National Museum of Australia, 2008. Web. 4 October 2010. Cadzow, Jane. “Dick and Percy—an enduring act.” The Australian [Sydney] 24 November 1983: Print. Caruana, Wally. Aboriginal Art. Singapore: Thames and Hudson, 1993. Print. Dalley, Cameo, and Paul Memmott. “Domains and the Intercultural: Understanding Aboriginal and Missionary Engagement at the Mornington Island Mission, Gulf of Carpentaria, Australia from 1914 to 1942.” International Journal of Historical Archaeology 14.1 (2010): 112–135. Springer Web. 1