Book Week/Book Fair

In conjunction with the Children’s Book Council of Australia (CBCA) Book Week, our book character dress-up parade will be THURSDAY, August the 22nd. 

The school holidays are a great time to prepare for this event and encourage your children to do extra jobs around the house to save money for our book fair, which will be held the same week. 

Children are encouraged to be creative for costumes by using items already in the home - there is no need to spend any money.  If their favourite book is about a normal everyday kid - then come as that character in normal clothes - just be ready with a quote, trinket or information about their current adventure to share.

As this is a celebration of books and reading, no prizes will be presented for costumes. 

This year’s CBCA book fair theme is ‘Reading is Magic’. We're celebrating reading stories and their amazing power to transport minds. We are encouraging kids to be curious about the wonders of our world. It is a positive and affirming message for our young people. The magic of reading also lies in its power of enticement; a good story provokes conversations. Talking about the stories with others connects the reader with other readers. Wrapped around all of this are the "tricks" and skills of our amazing writers and illustrators, as they use all their powers of language and illustration to engage the reader in this world they are building.