The Little Red Yellow Black Book

Bruce Pascoe | 156 pages | ISBN 0-85575-615-2

This second edition of the popular The Little Red Yellow Black Book is a superbly priced introduction to Australia’s Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander peoples; their history and their cultures.

Aboriginal history doesn’t start with Captain Cook, but instead acknowledges Australia’s 60,000 years existence. The Little Red Yellow Black Book is published by the world’s premier research and collecting institute for Australian Indigenous studies.

Easy-to-read and written as a first-person Indigenous narrative, there is something in it for everyone. Topics include sports, education, the arts, governance, native title, health, and more.

The Little Red Yellow Black Book also includes mini-essays, some rarely seen photographs, travel information, a timeline, a list of festivals and tours, and a website with teachers’ notes. With its attractive design, lucid writing, and beautiful illustrations, The Little Red Yellow Black Book is destined to become the ‘standard’ introduction to Indigenous Australia.

The second edition was published in October 2008, the first in 1994.

If you weren't taught about Indigenous Australians at school, or you're confused bu the many negative stories in the media, then The Little Red Yellow Black Book is the perfect starting point to learn more. —Rhonda Black, Aboriginal Studies Press

Books about blackfellas don't sell. Can't you write about something else?—A publisher to Bruce Pascoe