My neighborhood book club just finished a easy-read detective story from 1960s Australia, The Lake Frome Monster, by Arthur Upfield…. All about the Outback and ranching and First Nations People/aboriginal people… the detective is interesting… not the best detective mystery but lots of interesting local stuff and apparently most Australians are familiar with it… The language is quite dated, but presumably close to how white Australians thought/spoke…
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Friends of African Village Libraries (I post regularly here)- Rapport de mission d’une équipe de ABVBF à Waly
- Visite du centre de lecture et d’étude de Béréba (CLEB)
- Don de livres par ABVBF à l’école primaire publique de Waly
- Sortie de la BMP: Ste Thérèse de Houndé, Burkina Faso
- Distribution des livres CMH aux élèves de l’école B de Koumbia, Burkina Faso
- Night activities at Sumbrungu Community Library, Ghana
- Gowrie-Kunkua night reading, Ghana
- Initiation aux jeux de mots croisés de 02 élèves du primaire à la bibliothèque de Koho
- Jeux de cartes des élèves de l’école franco-arabe de Koho, Burkina Faso
- Animation d’une séance de lecture à la bibliothèque de Karaba, Burkina Faso