Emerging Indigenous Writer and Illustrator Project

** Please note: applications for this project have now closed.**

Are you interested in writing or illustrating a children's picture book? If so, then we are looking for you!

The Big Book Club Inc. has received funding from Australia Council for the Arts to project manage the development and production of three picture books written and illustrated by emerging Indigenous writers and illustrators. The books will be published and distributed nationally by Allen & Unwin.

In 2009, The Little Big Book Club and The University of South Australia conducted a pilot research project, My Favourite Book. The focus of the research was to understand what Indigenous families like to read.

The findings from this group of families indicated that …'When the children’s favourite books are good quality literature which appeals after numerous re-reading and is much-loved by people of all ages, genders and cultures, then positive interactions with reading and literature take place'.

Books that proved popular with the families:

Encouraged interaction between the child and the book, e.g. lift the flap
Required interaction between the reader and the child, e.g. the use of funny voices
Were plot based, that is, the story was more than captions or simple repetitive text