Adams is also the illustrator of Christobel Mattingley's Tucker's Mob (1992). The English version employs the voice of Aurukun storytellers and has been endorsed by the Aurukun community as an authentic portrayal of their lifestyle. Both books have been translated into Wik-Mungkan, a major language of the Aurukun Aboriginal people. She drew on her experience at Aurukun when writing her first children's books, Pigs and Honey (1989) and Going for Oysters (1991), the former winning the Children's Book Council of Australia Book of the Year Award for Younger Readers. In 1984 she returned to Melbourne and completed a B.Ed (Art & Craft) degree. In 1976 she and her family moved to Aurukun, a remote Aboriginal Community in the Far North of Australia. in Sociology and Anthropology at Monash University then taught for some time in Victorian schools before becoming a lecturer in Sociology at the Royal Melbourne Institute of Technology. 'Going for Oysters' celebrates traditional Indigenous lifestyle in a book that is itself of enduring value.Jeanie Adams was born at Hamilton, Victoria. Jeanie Adams’ illustrations deploy watercolour and wax crayon, lending both immediacy and subtle textures to a series of vivid, expressive scenes. An Australian Aboriginal family spends the weekend fishing and looking for oysters. (Readers might compare their own family structures). The story also touches on traditional family links and structures without didactically explaining systems. Visiting traditional gathering grounds is not without responsibility, and the narrator’s grandfather warns the children of straying if they are to avoid both quicksand, and the story place of the Carpet Snake, Yaatamay. Author Adams uses the voice of Aurukun storytellers, an approach endorsed by the Aurukun community as an authentic portrayal of their lifestyle. Set on Cape York Peninsula’s Love River, Adams weaves traditional Indigenous knowledge, and respect for places of secret meaning, with a child’s story of adventure and discovery. Writer and illustrator Jeanie Adams (although not an Indigenous person herself), immediately establishes a feeling of intimacy and trust between teller and audience. 'Going for Oysters' vividly tells of a young Aurukun girl’s adventure with family and friends to find and feast upon oysters, when the season brings them into abundance.
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