Library

Introducing The CBCA Shortlisted Books

Introducing the 2025 CBCA Book of the Year Awards New Illustrator Shortlist…

A Teaspoon of Light, Nisaluk Chantanakom (WestWords)
Digger Digs Down, Huni Melissa Bolliger (University of Queensland Press)
Grow Big, Little Seed, Sarah Capon (Hardie Grant Children’s Publishing)
Peek-a-Boo Lottie, Kristen Willis (Five Mile Books)
Raymaŋgirrbuy dhäwu, When I was a little girl, Kylie Gatjawarrawuy Mununggurr (Magabala Books)
The Land Recalls You, David Cragg & Noni Cragg (Scholastic Australia)

Introducing the 2025 CBCA Book of the Year Awards Early Childhood Shortlist…

Don’t Worry, Felix by Yohann Devezy & Katharine Alice, illustrated by Zoe Bennett (New Frontier Publishing)
Everything You Ever Wanted to Know About the Tooth Fairy (And Some Things You Didn’t) by Briony Stewart (Lothian Children’s Books)
How to Move a Zoo by Kate Simpson, illustrated by Owen Swan (A&U Books for Children and Young Adults)
One Little Dung Beetle by Rhian Williams, illustrated by Heather Potter & Mark Jackson (Wild Dog Books)
Spiro by Anna McGregor (Scribble)
The Wobbly Bike by Darren McCallum, illustrated by Craig Smith (Walker Books Australia)

Introducing the 2025 CBCA Book of the Year Awards Eve Pownall Award Shortlist…

Always Was, Always Will Be by Aunty Fay Muir & Sue Lawson (Magabala Books)
Design & Building on Country by Alison Page & Paul Memmott, illustrated by Blak Douglas (Thames & Hudson Australia)
Flora: Australia’s Most Curious Plants by Tania McCartney (NLA Publishing)
I am a Magpie, I am a Currawong by Bridget Farmer (Black Cockatoo Books)
Making the Shrine: Stories From Victoria’s War Memorial by Laura J Carroll (The Crossley Press)
South With the Seabirds by Jess McGeachin (A&U Books for Children and Young Adults)

Introducing the 2025 CBCA Book of the Year Awards Picture Book of the Year Shortlist…

Afloat by Freya Blackwood, text by Kirli Saunders (Little Hare)
The Garden of Broken Things by Freya Blackwood (HarperCollins AU)
A Leaf Called Greaf by Kelly Canby (Fremantle Press)
These Long-Loved Things by Ronojoy Ghosh, text by Josh Pyke (Scholastic Australia)
The Truck Cat by Danny Snell, text by Deborah Frenkel (Bright Light)
We Live in a Bus by Dave Petzold (Thames & Hudson Australia)

Presenting the 2025 CBCA Book of the Year Awards Younger Readers Shortlist …

Aggie Flea Steals the Show by Tania Ingram, illustrated by A. Yi (Scholastic Australia)
Fluff: Mess Up! by Matt Stanton, illustrated by Matt Stanton (ABC Books)
Laughter is the Best Ending by Maryam Master, illustrated by Astred Hicks (Pan Australia)
Saskia Spark-Lee: Fundraiser Fail by Rebecka Sharpe Shelberg, illustrated by Sofya Karmazina (Walker Books Australia)
Tigg and the Bandicoot Bushranger by Jackie French (HarperCollins AU)
To and Fro by Anton Clifford-Motopi (A&U Books for Children and Young Adults)

Library Certificate

In previous years when our students used the library they were sometimes awarded a badge on their profile. Some of the badges that can be earned are the Punctuality Pro and The Reading Rockstar in Bronze, Silver, Gold and Diamond. This year we now have the access to print them out and send them home and encourage all of our students to borrow and read more books from our school library.

Book Review

The book Abbie is reviewing this week, is by one of our very talented Australian Authors, Jackie French.

A copy of the book is available in our school library and the book review from Abbie is on the library window.

If your child would also like to share a review please follow the link.

https://rollinghillsps.vic.edu.au/send-us-your-book-review/

Keep on Reading!

Mrs Donnelly & Abbie M