<span style="font-family: georgia,serif;">Teaching children to read the Aboriginal world</span><br style="font-family: georgia,serif;"><br style="font-family: georgia,serif;"><span style="font-family: georgia,serif;">NIGEL PEARN AUGUST 18, 2010</span><br style="font-family: georgia,serif;">
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<br style="font-family: georgia,serif;"><span style="font-family: georgia,serif;">Wanja is a riot of a story — ten pages, 114 words — about a blue heeler who lives on The Block in Sydney's Redfern. The book was written by Aboriginal elder Aunty Barb Stacey and illustrated by Adam Hill. Their Wanja is a streak of movement against horizontal surrounds: part flying kangaroo, part street mutt. The palette is tightly controlled: red, yellow and black. The bubble lettering evokes the tradition of the 1970s political poster.</span><br style="font-family: georgia,serif;">
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