The award winning early years literacy program has been expanded to include the Noongar language, with the launch of the first dual language Baby Ways book, Maawit Mart.
Watch the Hon. David Templeman and Fran from Bright Futures Children's Services share Maawit Mart at the launch.
Baby Ways is an engaging and fun-to-read book that features Western Australian babies sitting, bathing, reading and playing. Baby Ways in English is included in the Better Beginnings pack that is presented to all new families in Western Australia at birth as part of a wider program that encourages parents to read to their children.
Two copies of Maawit Mart will be sent to each of the 140 public libraries on Noongar land, which stretches over the south-west corner of Western Australia.
Baby Ways was written by Nola Allen and Margaret Kett, photos by Frances Andrijich, published by the State Library of Western Australia; Noongar translation by the Noongar Boodjar Aboriginal Language Centre.