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Early Childhood Shortlist

From 8 June to mid July, Story Box Library will be releasing two CBCA shortlisted titles each week from the Early Childhood, Picture Book and New Illustrator categories. https://storyboxlibrary.com.au/blog/get-excited-for-cbca-book-week-2021?fbclid=IwAR14mvkE7MUg3E-52fk5tAD2rbxJNVxnvxdQ0M0XqOmXutYPNTrha3BXFWE

Karina Vitalone's presentation from the Book Week Forum

Sarah Allen Busy Beaks. Affirm Press 9781925972948

Themes: birds
Teachers Notes
Reading Time review https://readingtime.com.au/busy-beaks/
Make cardboard bird beaks https://www.instructables.com/Cardboard-Bird-Beak/
What bird(call) is it/your favourite
Bird scavenger hunt using those common to your area
Creating birdhouses / bird feeders
Local birdwatchers/rescue group chat
Group art - bird outline and they stick feathers on it
STEM – design thinking – make a birdsnest to hold 1 egg shaker – pictures of weird, wonderful nests afterwards – more than one way of solving a task
Bird books and /or pictures around library with paper roll tube binoculars for ‘bird-watching’
Colouring in pictures of local birds
Birds in backyards https://www.birdsinbackyards.net/
Building bird boxes - milk cartons and milk bottles
local Landcare groups might have resources could display of local species in your area

Bernadette Green (illus. by Anna Zobel) Who’s Your Real Mum? Scribble Kids’ Books 9781925849493

Libby Hathorn & Lisa Hathorn-Jarman (illus. by Mel Pearce) No! Never! Hachette Australia 9780734418906

Themes: behaviour and feelings - routines - cooperation
Libby Hathorn website
Tell us your parenting stories on social media
safety presentation - fire, police, road safety
Children illustrate a chart of routines parents can use at home to encourage them
Reverse role-playing - parents acting as kids and kids as parents for a simple task
Co-operative game session
Parenting session on managing 'big' emotions
Parenting and other picture books about children's behaviour on display
Child created cartoons of themselves in their routine - could also be a routine social story as a program
Readers Theatre with a sign “No, Never” to encourage audience participation

Anna McGregor Anemone is not the Enemy. Scribble Kids’ Books 9781922310118

Themes: friends - rockpools - tides - sea animals
Teachers notes
Trivia - under the sea facts
If coastal council, photos of local rockpools / shoreline
'Under the sea' experience with live animals
Paper roll anemone gardens
Jar / paper plate aquariums
Movie screening of 'Finding Nemo’
Rockpool sensory experience - sandy, wet, slimy, hard – individual trays for Covid-19 risk management
STEM - Sink or float / volume experiments
Crepe paper anemone with non-fiction sea animal books 'socially-distanced’
Rockpool or under the sea diorama

Heidi McKinnon There’s No Such Thing. Allen & Unwin 9781760877279

Themes: camping - monsters - night time
Teachers notes
Set up a tepee in the library and ask children to contribute pictures of their fears / imaginary creatures

that are displayed outside

Simple Storytime craft - 'Mr Squiggle' - using our imaginations perhaps paired with sounds
STEM - using our senses - pairing sounds with the things that make them
STEM older kids - sound effects with external faciliatator / coding a game for younger kids - What's that sound?
camping books display with teepee and other camping artefacts
Monsters from book - make and display (Scavenger hunt)
Night-time books against a starry sky

Briony Stewart We Love You, Magoo. Penguin Random House Australia 9781760896904

Learning time notes
CBCA video of author and illustrator Briony Stewart talking about creating the book https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=T41nQ399jt0