The Story of Karrawingi the Emu (1946) is an illustrated children's book by Australian author Leslie Rees and illustrator Walter Cunningham.

It won the Children's Book of the Year Award: Older Readers in 1946.

[1] The book tells the story of the life of the noble Australian Emu packed with action, adventure and the sense of racing speed that is part of an emu's heritage.

A note in The Western Mail stated: "The prose and the illustrations unfold the life story of an emu, giving a spice of adventure, a little natural history and a great deal of realism in story-telling and ability in illustration.

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