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CBCA Book Week Theme for this year is Dreaming with eyes open....

 

Shortlisted books for 2022 CBCA Book of the Year Awards include the following:

 

 

Jetty Jumping 

By Andrea Rowe and  Illustrated By Hannah Sommerville

 

While Milla's friends take big, brave jumps off the jetty, Milla stays on the blistering wood, scared of what lurks below. But when Milla accidentally falls off the edge, she discovers the beauty of the deep, dark sea - and her summer changes forever.........

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Winston and The Indoor Cat

By Leila Rudge

 

This is a story about seeing what life is like on the other side of the window.

 

Two very different cats: Winston, a free-spirited explorer; and The Indoor Cat, lover of leisure; form a friendship and show each other how different their lives could be. Can The Indoor Cat be enticed by outdoor adventure? Will Winston be tempted by a life of indoor luxury?

 

 

 

 

Blue Flower

By Sonya Hartnett and Illustrated By Gabriel Evans

 

 

A gentle exploration of a child’s realisation that it is her individual differences and creativity that make her special, with stunning illustrations by the talented Gabriel Evans that delicately and sensitively convey the child’s emotional journey. A young child describes her qualms about going to school and how hard she finds asking the teacher for help, how she feels shy about making friends, not being funny or a fast runner. But through her love of art, a conversation with her mother and her observations about nature she comes to see that being different might not be a bad thing after all. I lay down and put my nose in the grass. The grass was dotted with yellow flowers, but blue ones grew there too. I rolled over and looked at the trees and the clouds, and thought about things for a while. ‘Not all clouds are white,’ I said, and Piccolo looked at me. ‘Not all trees are tall. Not all birds are brown. Not all cats are tabby like you, Piccolo. Some are black. Some are orange. Some are calico. ’Piccolo swished his stripy tail. I plucked a flower and showed it to him. ‘This flower isn’t yellow, but it isn’t wrong. It is what it’s supposed to be. No one would want it to be yellow. Everyone would say it’s lovely just the way it is. ’A beautifully told story about being happy in yourself for who you are from one of Australia's finest writers.

 

Costume ideas for two shortlisted books in this year’s CBCA Book of the Year Awards, which we hope will inspire:-

 

Click on the below links to discover some clever ideas. 

I look forward to seeing photos of the Book Week Parade with students and staff participating as I will be on leave.

A reminder that the parade will be held on Tuesday 23 August at 11.20am in the Library Quadrangle or in the KLC if it is raining. 

 

Happy Reading 

Mrs Earl, in the Library.