Jenny Wagner’s “The Bunyip of Berkeley’s Creek” relates to Carl Rogers’ self theory by means of the bunyip going through stages of finding the self. Through stages of finding the self, like incongruence and conditions of worth, the bunyip feels less about himself. This suggests a reflection of someone being intimidated by today’s society for being unique. He is eventually pushed to nonexistence, but comes to the conclusion of not caring what the other characters think and spreads its positivity to another bunyip. In spite of the other characters telling the bunyip that bunyips are typically ugly, the bunyip contradicts those opinions, creating incongruence. Rogers believes that children usually need the approval of other authority