Book Week Fun

Click these links to find fun activities for the short listed books.

Early Childhood Category | Picture Book Category
Younger Readers Category | Eve Pownall Award

How to rotate and manage jigsaw pieces

• Move the mouse wheel up (left rotation) or down (right rotation).
• Or, press the left or right arrow key.
• Change the number of pieces for an easier or harder jigsaw under the Play As menu.

Picture Book Category

Hello Lighthouse

By Sophie Blackall

From dusk to dawn, the lighthouse beams, sending its light out to sea, guiding the ships on their way. The lighthouse keeper writes, and the rhythms of his life unfold but change is on the horizon…

Enjoy the story | Singing the story
Do a jigsaw

Nop 

By Caroline Magerl

Nop is a scruffy kind of bear. He sits on a dusty armchair in Oddmint’s Dumporeum surrounded by the beaders, knitters, patchers and stitchers who are much too busy to talk to him.

Enjoy the story | Do a jigsaw
Caroline Magerl paints Nop using a cup of tea.

I Need a Parrot

By Chris McKimmie

But what does a parrot need? A book about wanting and needing; what a child wants and what a wild bird needs.

Hear the Story. | Do a jigsaw

Three

By Stephen Michael King