Book Week Fun
Click these links to find fun activities for the short listed books.
Early Childhood Category | Picture Book Category
Younger Readers Category | New Illustrators Category
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Younger Readers Category
Dragon Skin
by Karen Foxlee
When Pip finds a half-dead creature at the waterhole, everything changes.
Read Act 1 (Chapter 1)
About the book: Oliver P. talks about 5 books. Dragon Skin is the fifth. Scroll to 9.33 or enjoy them all.
The Detective’s Guide to Ocean Travel
by Nicki Greenberg
Pepper Stark has never been allowed to set foot on her father’s ship – until now.
Read about the book & the author.
Meet Nicki Greenberg | Do a jigsaw
Huda and Me
by H. Hayek
When their parents have to travel to Beirut unexpectedly, twelve-year-old Akeal and his six siblings are horrified to be left behind in Melbourne with the dreaded Aunt Amel as their babysitter.
A Glasshouse of Stars
by Shirley Marr
Meixing Lim and her family have arrived in the New Land. Everything is unknown to Meixing and not in a good way.
About the book: Oliver P. talks about 5 books. Glasshouse is the first.
Enjoy the trailer | Read some of the book
Hear the first 2 chapters | Meet Shirley Marr
Exit Through the Gift Shop
by Maryam Master ill. Astred Hicks
Ana’s on a wild roller-coaster of life and death, kindness and cruelty, ordinary and extraordinary.
About the book: Oliver P. talks about 5 books. Gift Shop is the second.
Scroll to 2.26.
Maryam Master reads from the book.
Rabbit, Soldier, Angel, Thief
by Katrina Nannestad
The story of Sasha, a six year old Russian orphan, adopted by a army battalion during the Second World War.
About the book | Read Chapter 1