Shortlisted titles reviewed here - Reading Time You are at:Home»News»Shortlisted titles reviewed here By Admin on · News Reading Time Online has reviewed many of the 2015 shortlisted books over this past year. We have put them all together in this one post for your convenience. Book of the Year: Early Childhood Short List Book of the Year: Younger Readers Short List Book of the Year: Older Readers Short List Eve Pownall Award for Information Books Short List Picture Book of the Year The Crichton Award for New Illustrators Share. Related Posts 1 Comment Andrea Brock on Thanks so much for putting these reviews together – it is fantastic! Leave A Reply
Children’s Book Week 2015 - Ideas for Performance Children’s Book Week 2015 - Ideas for Performance by Susan Stephenson, www.thebookchook.com This is the third of five articles at The Book Chook related to Children’s Book Week in 2015. The first was Activities for Children’s Book Week 2015. Next was Children’s Book Week 2015 - Challenges for Kids. Soon you can read Children’s Book Week 2015 Ideas for Display (coming 29/5) and Guest School Visits in Children’s Book Week (coming 1/6). Performances for Children's Book Week are very popular in Australian schools. The Children’s Book Week Parade has long been a fixture in schools. 1. 2. 3. To celebrate Children’s Book Week in style, lots of schools have a special assembly with some kind of performance from different classes. * Ask each class to bring a collaboratively-decided book to life in a way of their choosing. * Decide on one book for the whole school or department or grade. * With younger grades, a hybrid of reader’s theatre and acting works well.
My Two Blankets | The Bottom Shelf My Two Blankets My Two Blankets Irena Kobald Freya Blackwood Little Hare, 2014 hbk., 32pp., RRP $A24.95 In the beginning she was a very happy little girl in her home village – so happy, her aunty called her Cartwheel. So, at home, she wrapped herself in a blanket of familiar words and sounds and memories – a blanket that was warm and soft and covered her all over, letting her feel safe. This is a poignant story deliberately set in Any Place, Anywhere because its message is not confined by boundaries or borders. Illustrated by the amazing Freya Blackwood, you can read about how she interpreted the concepts into what are the perfect accompaniments to this story on her blog If you are looking for titles which fit such themes as Belonging, Identity, Refugees and particularly the Australian Curriculum cross-curriculum priority Intercultural Understanding, this would be a perfect addition. A peek inside…