PADUA LIBRARY NEWS
2025 Book Week will be celebrated from August 16th to 22nd and in the lead up to this week students are being introduced to the books nominated for Book Week Awards. Book Week is celebrated across Australia and is a way of acknowledging the importance of books in our lives. It is also a chance to celebrate the talent of Australian authors and illustrators. The winners of the nominated books in the different sections will be announced prior to Book Week and students will be able to compare their opinions with those of the Book Council Judges.
Book Week Free Dress Day
When: Friday 22nd August
In Greccio Place – 8:30 to 9:10am
The theme this year is – Book an Adventure
Come dressed as a book character or where you would go on an adventure
Books nominated for Picture Book of the Year
The Garden of Broken Things written and illustrated by Freya Blackwood
One day, curious Sadie follows a cat into the tangled vines behind the lonely house at Number 9, Ardent Street.
Deep in the undergrowth, past all the twisted, rusted things, Sadie finds the cat sitting on the lap of a woman, bent with time and weariness.
Sadie has found the Garden of Broken Things.
The Truck Cat by Deborah Frenkel
Some cats are house cats. Some are apartment cats.
But Tinka is a truck cat. Tinka lives everywhere.
Along with his human, Yacoub, Tinka travels roads wide and narrow, near and distant. But no matter how much they travel, home feels very far away – for both of them
A leaf called Greaf written and illustratedby Kelly Canby
Bear is all alone and lonely until he finds the greenest, most beguiling leaf. A leaf called Greaf. Bear holds Greaf tight throughout the days and nights that follow. Bear can barely remember a time before Greaf. It is as if things have always been this way. Until one day,
they aren't. ...
A reminder for all those students who have undertaken the Premier’s Reading Challenge that the final date for completed sheets MUST be returned to me in the library by FRIDAY 22nd AUGUST.
Storybox Online – Have the nominated stories and other activities for Book Week
The link and Log in details are as follows https://storyboxlibrary.com.au/
Username: Padua
Password : SACCStoybox
Sue Keith
Teacher Librarian
Padua Campus Library
“If you are going to get anywhere in life you have to read a lot of books.” – Roald Dahl