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Book Week 2026

Did you know that Children's Book Week has featured an annual theme every year since 1945? Since then, the Children's Book Council of Australia (CBCA) has been bringing children and books together across the nation.

Book Week is a wonderful annual event celebrated by schools and libraries all across Australia to highlight the importance of reading and to honour outstanding children's literature.

This Year's Theme: Symphony of Stories

St Francis Xavier Primary School will be celebrating Book Week in Week 9!

• What's Coming Up: Exciting details about our upcoming Book Fair and the popular Book Week Costume Parade will be shared very soon!
• Fortnightly Spotlight: In each newsletter leading up to the celebration, I will share the background stories behind the different characters and their musical instruments featured in this year's Symphony of Stories artwork.

Stay tuned for more updates as we prepare for a fun-filled celebration of reading!

I would like to introduce you to the first three musical characters. 

Pixie Pip is a piccolo piper who hates pickled peppers, but loves handmade tassels and coordinating outfits. A renowned collector of macrame plant holders, Pip has cultivated over a dozen rare mosses at their toadstool house in the woods. 

Mastro Pebbles is a well-respected conductor of songs, stories and formalwear. A regular musical arranger for fashion shows, Pebbles also owns and runs London's foremost ethical-tailoring business 'Penguin Suits'. 

Foxgloves, honeysuckles, jonquils ... Phineas isn't picky, he loves to play all the flowers in the garden. Whether it's with the brassy sound of dewdrops inside a morning bud, or the sweet notes of scented night blossoms, he finds a beguiling tune to play at all angles of the sundial.