Can you imagine not being able to read a newspaper, a road sign or directions on a bottle of medication? Sadly, this is a reality faced by many Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islanders living in remote communities today.

The Indigenous Literacy Foundation (ILF) aims to raise literacy and improve the lives and opportunities of Indigenous Australian living in remote and isolated regions.

This is done by providing books and literacy resources to indigenous communities and raising broad community awareness of Indigenous literacy issues.

To find out more about ILF  www.indigenousliteracyfoundation.org.au

The Naked Boy and the Crocodile

In the past few years as an ILD ambassador, Andy Griffiths has travelled around Australia with other members of the Australian book industry to conduct writing workshops with students in remote communities.

The students were given small blank "books" and invited to fill these books - using both picture and words - with a story based on their own lives. These stories could be true or fictional or a mixture of both. They could be dramatic, funny or simply about an activity they love.

The thirteen stories included in this book tell tales of playing with friends, riding motorbikes, picking berries, hunting for emu eggs and wild pigs, terrifying turkeys and angry mamus.

The Naked Boy and the Crocodile is now available to order from Pan Macmillan.

Thank you to our members who so generously supported this year's Indigenous Literacy Day on Wednesday 7 September.

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