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

• Themes: families - mums - rainbow families
• Teachers notes
• Tell us about your mum/s social media call out
• Family tree – celebrate all the different shapes
• My mum is secretly …
• Link to History syllabus (ES1) - stories about my family
• Family portraits – draw or have a photography session with a background
• Dress up to act out the imaginary pursuits of the mums
• Outreach to rainbow family organizations in your area
• Rainbow families book display
• 'My mum …’ index cards for public to add
• Rainbow Families https://www.rainbowfamilies.com.au/

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

• Themes: dogs - pets
• Learning time notes
• CBCA video of author and illustrator Briony Stewart talking about creating the book https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=T41nQ399jt0
• Social media montage of adorable dogs / cat videos
• Dogs of …. photo call out of your pet / pet poll
• Paper plate dogs/paper puppets as a Storytime craft
• Talk with local pound about how to take care of our pets
• Pet first-aid for kids and parents with local vet and stuffed animals
• Collage of orange Magoo and with blue-themed background
• Decorate a collar / bandanna for your dog
• STEM - graphing what pets everyone has or making dog biscuits
• Sensory play - cleaning 'dirty' dog figurines; playdough pets
• Pet-themed display

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