The whale story

By First Nations Students

Published 1 December 2025

the smart
octopus
swims
in the
oshen

A digitised children's illustration showing the black outline of a whale and other sea creatures floating in the deep amongst seaweed.

This illustration was hand-drawn by a First Nations student and manually digitised by Red Room Poetry staff. To honour the integrity of First Nations voices, poems have been reproduced as close as possible to their original text, with light editing for clarity.