Library

Book Week 17-23 August 2024 : Reading is Magic

Book Week will commence in Week 6.

 We spend the week celebrating books, Australian authors and illustrators. 

The theme will be, “Reading is Magic.” 

On Friday 23rd August, we are encouraging students to bring along their favourite story or book to celebrate Book Week. 

Students can dress as a magical character or their favourite book character.

Step into our library and enjoy the beautiful display of Short list books. Teachers have started sharing these books with their students. 

There are 6 categories in the Book of the year awards :

Book of the year : Younger readers (ages 7-12 years)

Book of the year : Early childhood (ages 0-6 years)

Picture Book of the year : (ages 0-18 years)

Book of the year : Eve Pownall award for factual material (ages 13-18 years)

Book of the year : Older readers (ages 13-18 years)

The CBCA award for New Illustrator (ages 0-18 years)

News from our library leaders

What a wonderful time we have had so far.  Being a library leader is so fun.  We have helped with the National Simultaneous Storytime, organizing books, the Book Fair and there is still more to come.  We are approaching book week and the judges are going to pick the ‘winners’ from the short list books. There are 6 book titles in each of the 6 book categories. The winning author will win a prize for their book. Nadia F

Hi my name is Sydney and I’m a year 6 library leader.  As you may know, Book Week is coming up, so make sure that you knock the socks off everyone with your bedazzling outfits as you get to choose a costume from a character of ANY book!  So, remember on the 23rd of August, be ready to dress up as fairies, goblins, wizards and witches and show off your costume! Moreover when you walk into the library you will find a section of short list books which have been chosen by publishers.  

I cannot tell you all the amazing books I’ve read from that section. There are novels, picture books, you name it.  However my recommendation will definitely be “Can you teach a fish to climb a tree?”.  It’s humorous, has great pictures and is a lot of fun.

 The team will share more exciting news about ‘Book Week’ in our next newsletters to follow.