Book Week
It’s Book Week!!! From August 22-28 Aussie kids, librarians, parents, teachers, and book lovers of all ages go ga-ga for Book Week and the Children’s Book Council of Australia (CBCA) awards. If you haven’t seen it yet, here’s the cute trailer for Book Week 2009.
In keeping with this year’s safari theme, we decided to go on a book hunt at our local library. Binoculars were a necessity, of course, so we spent some time making our sophisticated devices out of toilet rolls, glue and string before setting off. We chose to hunt for animal books and found a nice collection to bring home.
We’re also continuing the theme by hiding a couple of books around the house each day to find. We look through our trusty binoculars while singing “We’re going on a book hunt…” (thanks to the Australian Library and Information Association). Once we find a hidden book we sit and read it together, then set off in search of another. This is such a simple activity, but it’s all very exciting when you’re three!
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Look what we found hiding in the cushions!
If you have any Book Week ideas to share I’d love you to leave a comment. If you are blogging about Book Week, please feel free to leave a link here too. As expected, Literacy expert Trevor Cairney has a fabulous review of the winning CBCA books, and Planning With Kids has a great post listing all of the winners. There’s an Aussie safari happening over at Adventures With Kids and a lovely post in honour of book week at Good Goog too. Of course, you can also read several posts at the gorgeous We {Heart} Books and a wonderful article about “Growing Kids Who Read” at Childhood 101. Anyone else like me to link to their post…?
Such a great idea. Zoe would love a book hunt, maybe we can use the idea when its time to take the books back to the libray and 1 is missing from the shelf.
I love book week. A book hunt coupled with the safari theme sounds like a great idea. I’ll bet the books themselves you chose were exciting too.
Blessings,
Paula
I love the idea of a book hunt at the library, my son makes binoculars all the time so it would be nice to use them.
I have written about an australian book safari at our house, this is the link
http://adventureskids.blogspot.com/2009/08/book-safari.html
or follow the link on my name.
great idea …with all the TP we go through it won’t take much time to knock up two pairs.
I need to go on a book hunt for our library books too.
I’ll do a post (hopefully)
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Some great ideas for book week! Although my little one is a bit too young to appreciate a book hunt, I was inspired to blog about book week as well at http://goodgoog.com/2009/08/24/in-honour-of-book-week/
I love to read. And love to share the excitment of reading. Thanks for highlighting the wonder of Books. Lmc.
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I love book week so much. It was my favourite week as a kid, and my kids really get into it. Our school does a dress up day like many schools. The kids always insist on proper “storybook” characters not just superhero costumes etc. We try to make as much as possible too – it’s fun! 101 Dalmations was white shirt with black sticker spots (plus ears and tail), Cat in the Hat was black and white clothes with red felt bow tie and cardboard hat.
Hi Cath,
What a lovely idea and some great links too.
I have blogged, Growing Kids Who Read
http://childhood101.blogspot.com/2009/08/growing-kids-who-read.html
Christie
thats such a great idea
I hadn’t seen the book week trailer – very cute. We had a great time for book week, going to check out the links!
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