This year, Book Week will be celebrated from the 16 th to 22 nd August. I will update you through the newsletter of our planned activities and events. The students in Year 2, Year 1 and Prep will begin to read in our library lessons the book nominated for the Early Childhood book of the year.

Each year The Children’s Book Council nominates books written/illustrated by Australian authors and illustrators for Book Week Awards. There are 6 different categories – Book of the Year for: Older Readers, Younger Readers and Early Childhood; Picture Book of the Year; Eve Pownall Award for Information Book and the Crichton Award for new illustrators.

In each newsletter I will include some of the titles that have been nominated.

The following books have been nominated in the Early Childhood Section.

Don’t Worry, Felix by Yohann Devezy and Katharine Alice                                

Felix has a problem. It’s a big, red, round problem. A worry balloon that follows him everywhere he goes ... As his heart thumps, stomach twists and toes wiggle, it grows and grows and stops him from doing what he wants to do. But when Felix learns a special trick, things start to change ...

The Wobbly Bike by Darren McCallum

How do you fix a wobbly bike? Could it be the tyres, the terrain, or maybe it might be a new rider? A joyful, multi-layered story, celebrating the unique culture of Australia’s urban “top end”, the precious roles of grandparents in families, the fact that kindness and encouragement, combined with practice, are the key to success, bound together with gentle humour… because laughter is always the best medicine.

One Little Dung Beetle by Heather Potter

Follow along as One Little Dung Beetle counts all kinds of fascinating creepies and crawlies.

How many can you see?

Well done to all those students would have taken up the Premier’s Reading Challenge. It is wonderful to see how many are committed to reading the 20 books required for the challenge. Thank you to those students who have already completed the challenge and have handed their sheets back to me to register your entry. Please support and encourage them to keep reading, as it is a vital tool for lifelong learning and impacts on everything we do each day.