A beautifully illustrated book of songs, some are original and some are adapted nursery rhymes. The songs are written in the first languages of this remote Arnhem Land Community; in Mangarrayi and/or Kriol with English translations.
On the back cover is a QR code with links to the songs as well as information about the Indigenous
Literacy Foundation. Each page of the book has a brief sentence about the origin of the song as well as the starting note for singing the song. The majority of the songs are about their community, the activities they like to do and the animals in and around their community.
Jilkminggan is southeast of Katherine in the Northern Territory. About 250 people live in Jilkminggan and the school has about 70 students.
Families as First Teachers (FaFT) delivers early learning and parent support programs to young children and their families. As part of this program across the Northern Territory a number of books in Language have been published with support of the Indigenous Literacy Foundation, giving the communities books that they can relate to and read or sing in their own language/s.
In 2024 the ILF won the prestigious Astrid Lindgren Memorial Award for their contribution to children’s or young adult’s literature.
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