The A is for Aboriginal Project brings numerous strategies to promote early childhood literacy in the Aboriginal community. The strategies include literature review and background research, community asset mapping, creative writing, children’s literature and music publishing, focus groups and workshops, an interactive story portal, collaborative tools and production templates for children’s authors and illustrators as well as the creation of a number of small community libraries in Vancouver.

The Wiki is here.

Recognizing that the best time to begin reading to a child is in infancy and that there is a need for more aboriginal centric material the project team has come up with a unique multi-dimensional plan that involves the aboriginal community, native musicians and artists as well other professional media artists, writers, programmers and communicators.

The project will produce four First Nations Readers, one of which has a music CD included and will be published as a Children’s Book/Music CD.