[ENGLISH LANGUAGE PRIMER FOR INDIGENOUS CHILDREN] Nari and Minala go to school.

Sydney : A. H. Pettifer, Government Printer, [c.1950]. Series: The Bush Books, Book 4. Octavo (200 x 150 mm), original stapled pictorial wrappers (a little sunned at edges); 24 pp, illustrations throughout (some colour), inside wrappers with word lists; a very good example.

‘This book is the fourth of a series of six primers prepared especially to meet the needs of aboriginal children in Northern Territory native schools. They are the rest of two years of experience and research on the techniques of beginning reading in this particular environment. It is expected that before children begin work on the first book, they will have at least a year’s instruction in oral English and in pre-reading exercises.’ (title-page)