‘Blak Book of the Month’ is a The Yulang Effect initiative to support the inclusion of First Nations children’s books regularly throughout the year in all Australian classrooms. This initiative can be lead by individual teachers in their classrooms or taken up across the whole school by downloading the other ‘Blak Book of the Month’ resources for:

1. Early Childhood and Foundation

2. Year 3 and 4

3. Year 5 and 6

   The Year 1 and 2 Book Pack includes:

• Somebody’s Land - Adam Goodes, Ellie Laing and David Hardy

• Sea Country - Aunty Patsy Cameron and Lisa Kennedy

• Ask Aunty: Seasons, an Introduction to First Nations Seasons - Aunty Munya Andrews and Charmaine Ledden-Lewis

• Wandihnu and the Old Dugong - Elizabeth Wynmarra, Wandihnu Wymarra and Benjamin Hodges 

• Found - Bruce Pascoe and Charmaine Ledden-Lewis

• Walk with Us - Adam Goodes, Ellie Laing and David Hardy

• Silly Birds - Gregg Dreise

• Sky Country - Aunty Patsy Cameron, illustrated by Lisa Kennedy

• A Footy Tail - Alex Johnson and Gregg Dreise

• The Trees - Victor Steffensen and Sandra Steffensen

• The Little Corroboree Frog - Tracey Holton-Ramirez & Angela Ramirez

• Our Dreaming - Kirli Saunders and Dub Leffler

  Several of the books listed are also read online by First Nation storytellers on the Story Box Library (SBL) website and app.