Indigenous Literacy Foundation brings a love of reading to remote communities

By Linda Morris
Updated September 7 2015 - 10:08am, first published September 2 2015 - 8:44am
Author Alison Lester reads to Ruby Lorenzo, Marguarita Palipuaminni, Barbara Darcy, and Michaeline Moreen from Milikapiti School.
 Photo: Steven Siewert
Author Alison Lester reads to Ruby Lorenzo, Marguarita Palipuaminni, Barbara Darcy, and Michaeline Moreen from Milikapiti School. Photo: Steven Siewert

In the ancient Indigenous language of the Tiwi people of Melville and Bathurst islands there is no word for book.

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