Book Week Displays

We have started setting up some of our displays in preparation for Book Week.  Students have been very excited to see their wonderful pieces of work being added to the displays over the last two weeks.  See if you can identify the Book Week shortlisted books that have been the inspiration for our displays.

Graphic Novels

Throughout the last 18 months we have been working to develop a wider selection of books within the Graphic Novels section of the Library.  Graphic Novels provide opportunities for readers to engage with texts using images and condensed text.  Some of the new Graphic Novels being added to our collection this week include a few titles from the “Percy Jackson” series and the first three books from the “Lucy & Andy Neanderthal” series written by Jeffrey Brown (one of the authors of the “Jedi Academy” series).                       

Book Week

This week we would like to spotlight another category of children’s books shortlisted for prizes during Book Week this year.  In the Young Readers category entries may be fiction, drama or poetry and should be appropriate in style and content for readers from the middle to upper primary years. Ages 7-12 years.       

From this category we really enjoyed the story “Brindabella”.  Not only is it an enjoyable story about a boy named Pender who cares for the natural world, but Ursula Dubosarsky cleverly switches between main characters to tell events in the story from the point of view of both Pender and the kangaroo joey he rescues.

Upcoming Book Week events:

• August 21^st – Book Week Character Costume Parade
• August 22^nd – Meerkats Book Week performances for P-2 and 3-6. Notes and invoices for this event were sent home last week.

Premier’s Reading Challenge

A reminder that the 2019 Premier’s Reading Challenge is still running – keep on reading! 

Thank you,

Mrs Wilkinson and Mrs H.