This is more than just an alphabet book. Using letters A-Z as a framework, Elaine Russell tells us about growing up on a mission in northern New South Wales. She describes daily routines and incidents, including billycart racing, fishing for yabbies, having a possum as a pet, and making sure the house was spick and span when the manger's wife came to check it on Inspection Day. The details of her childhood will delight - and inform - children today.
This is the first alphabet book with an Aboriginal theme. Shortlisted for the Children's Book Council Picture Book of the Year.
