Tirkandi Library

Teacher/Librarian

Rosie Thurston, Teacher/Librarian

Rosie.Thurston526@schools.sa.edu.au

Book Week 2015

Theme: "Books Light Up Our World"

Each year the Children's Book Council of Australia selects a shortlist of the top titles published in 2014.

The Book of the Year winners are voted on from this list. The winners will be announced on 21st August.

The shortlisted books are available for borrowing now! See the attachment for the complete list:

Short List 2015.pdf

Each week we will feature books from each category. This week we will look at the Picture Books:

PICTURE BOOKS

There are some impressive partnerships vying for Picture Book of the Year.

They include Bruce Whatley's heart-stoppingly realistic and varied bushfire effects coupled with Jackie French's poetically wrenching words in Fire; Ritva Voutila's wintry European architecture with Margaret Wild's formal, mythic text in The Stone Lion, a plangent tale in the tradition of Oscar Wilde about the statue outside the library that longs to move and live and is fleetingly granted his wish when concern for a pair of destitute children warms his stone heart; and my personal favourite: a stunning picture book metaphor, readily accessible to a young child, for living one's life in a new language. My Two Blankets is a seamless and really illuminating marriage of pictures (Freya Blackwood) and words (Irena Kobald).

(From the Advertiser 26/4/15)

Here are photos of the six shortlisted 2015 Picture Book covers: