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Book Week -
Across the Story Bridge
With
literacy becoming a major focus in education throughout
Australia, students from schools across the South East
celebrated book week from 23 to 27 August together with
hundreds of other schools and libraries around the nation.
Celebrating its 65th birthday this year, Children's Book
Week was hosted nationally by the Children's Book Council of
Australia, making it the longest running children’s
festival.
As part
of Book Week activities, students from across Mount Gambier
showed their love of reading as they spent the week
celebrating Australian authors, illustrators and above all –
books.
Book Week
saw over 1300 students from schools throughout Mount Gambier
visit the Mount Gambier Public Library who ran a number of
fun and interactive workshops with students highlighting the
importance of reading.
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Tenison Woods College classes were abuzz as they took part
in a range of Book Week activities which included story
telling workshops, projects and craft activities, many of
which were based around the books short listed this year by
the Children’s Book Council of Australia.
Tenison
Woods College Librarian, Alex Nicholson, said the week long
celebrations have always proven popular with students,
staff and parents alike.
“It’s a
tremendous opportunity for literacy to be brought to life in
classrooms and homes around the country” Mrs Nicholson said.
The
highlight of the week long celebrations was, without a
doubt, the spectacular Fancy Dress Parade held on Friday –
in which students and teachers from the Junior School
transformed the mall into a kaleidoscope of colourful
costumes. Cats pounced among pirates, clowns played tag
with princes, pixies frolicked amidst the geese and
bespectacled wizards giggled with elephants.
“This
years’ theme “Across the Story Bridge” was a wonderful theme
because it allows us to focus on how
bridges connect people and things together but more
importantly it raises our awareness of how reading a book is
like crossing a bridge into another world,” Mrs Nicholson
said.
Leading
up to Book Week, libraries across Australia eagerly await
the announcement each year by the Children’s Book Council of
Australia of the five category winners of Children’s Book of
the Year.
The Book
of the Year Award winners for 2010 include Book of the
Year: Older Readers Jarvis 24, Book of the
Year: Younger Readers Darius Bell and the Glitter
Pool, Book of the Year: Early Childhood Bear &
Chook by the Sea Picture Book of the Year:
The Hero of Little Street
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