From the Library
Book Club
Thank you for your support with book club this year RNPS families. You’re amazing!
This has been our best year yet and we have been able to buy additional books for our library to engage the students in reading from the book club rewards.
Issue 8 is on its way and will be arriving soon.
If you have chose the GIFT option on your order, we will make sure it is kept at the office for pickup.
If you wanted it to be a gift and didn’t mention it on the order, please email elle.stanley@education.vic.gov.au and let me know.
Returning Library books
Please have a look around if you have any books belonging to the library if you could return them before end of Term.
Hope everyone has an amazing Christmas, and I look forward to helping bring book club and amazing new titles to the library in 2025.
ALIA National Simultaneous Storytime 2025
Some cats are house cats.
Some are apartment cats.
But Tinka is a truck cat.
Tinka lives everywhere.
ALIA is delighted to announce that the National Simultaneous Storytime book for 2025 is The Truck Cat
Written by Deborah Frenkel and illustrated by Danny Snell. Published by Hardie Grant Children's Publishing.
About the Author
Deborah Frenkel is a writer of books, billboards, and the words on the back of cereal boxes, which to date is probably her most widely read work (and certainly the most crunchy). Her picture books include the award-winning Naturopolis (2022) and The Sydney Harbour Fairy (2023). She's based on Bunurong land, in Melbourne’s Inner West, but spends most of the time squinting at horizons in her imagination.
About the Illustrator
As a child Danny Snell was a reluctant reader, so it was pictures rather than words that drew him to the wonder of books. Danny went on to study graphic design and illustration at the University of South Australia and he now works as a picture book illustrator and author. His books have won a number of awards including the CBCA Eve Pownall Award, the Environment Award for Children’s Literature, and the Speech Pathology Australia Book of the Year Award.
NSS 2025 will be held on Wednesday 21 May 2025 at 12pm (AEST)
National Simultaneous Storytime (NSS) is held annually by the Australian Library and Information Association (ALIA). Every year a picture book, written and illustrated by an Australian author and illustrator, is read simultaneously in libraries, schools, pre-schools, family day cares, childcare centres, family homes, bookshops and many other places around the country. Now in its 24th successful year, it is a colourful, vibrant, fun event that aims to promote the value of reading and literacy, using an Australian children's book that explores age-appropriate themes, and addresses key learning areas of the National Curriculum for Foundation to Year 6.
By facilitating NSS we aim to:
promote the value of reading and literacy, promote the value and fun of books, promote an Australian writer and publisher, celebrate and promote storytime activities in public libraries, school libraries, classrooms and communities around the country,and provide opportunities to involve parents, caregivers, the media, and others to participate in and enjoy the occasion.