Indigenous Literacy Foundation receives the 2024 Astrid Lindgren Memorial Award
For its innovative work with spreading literature to First Nations children in Australia, the Indigenous Literacy Foundation (ILF) is awarded the 2024 Astrid Lindgren Memorial Award. The foundation seeks to increase reading and highlight the value of all people’s own languages and stories. In its reading promotion work, ILF emphasizes the importance of First Nations children seeing themselves, their culture and their language reflected in the books they read.‘The importance of all people’s own languages and stories is the foundation for the Indigenous Literacy Foundation’s shining work