Let’s all HOP UP! WRIGGLE OVER!
HOP UP! WRIGGLE OVER! by Elizabeth Honey, Allen and Unwin.
If you’re looking for a beautiful Australian book for a new arrival or young child, this is high on our list.
Enjoy nine different Australian baby animals cavorting through the day with their koala and kangaroo parents.( All named on the […]
Don’t kids love being up in the dark past their bedtime!
If you’re heading onto Sydney to see VIVID you won’t need a bedtime story later, as there’ll be lots of storytelling there.The Wiggles have even put together a trail you can follow if you download the free app for your phone.
The best places for […]
We’re reading an extra book for Simultaneous Storytime this year.
If you would like a book for children not quite ready for “the Brothers Quibble “ by Aaron Blabey, Penguin; why not try My Nana is a Ninja by Damon Young, illustrated by Peter Carnavas, Queensland University Press.
This story would also be useful for Grandparent […]
Each year in Simultaneous Storytime, thousands of Australian children all share the same book at the same time.
It’s held at your local library and some schools, early education centres, playgroups or community groups.Whether or not you can attend a group,here are lots of resources to help make it loads of fun.
Storybox library has the book […]
This weekend, in Australia, we celebrate Mother’s (and Grandmothers) day.
Why not share our own mother’s stories, as well as books from our booklist?
How many of us talk to our children- and tell them stories about our mothers,(or ourselves) when we were younger?
Or ask our mothers to share their stories on SKYPE or facetime?
We can […]
100 Stories Book Review:
“The Umbrella” – wordless and wonderfully imaginative.
We’ve had some wild weather in Sydney lately, lots of wind and storms causing havoc.
Just the time to share our most favourite wordless picture book published this year- all about a little dog blown away by the wind.The Umbrella by Ingrid & Dieter Schubert, Book […]
100 Stories Before School
Literacy Calendar .
World Read Aloud Day – Australian stories.
World Read Aloud Day is today, March 4th.
We thought we would like to share some stories from our 100 Stories Before School list, especially some Australian stories.We have taken the World Read Aloud categories of Belonging, Curiosity,Hope, Friendship,Kindness,Courage and Confidence and found a […]
Dragons rush out at Chinese New Year in parades, stories and songs.
Kids love Chinese dragons – they are colourful,exciting, noisy and enormous!
It’s a chance to pretend to be something extraordinary, and can later lead onto reading about Dragons in older stories like” The Dragon of an Ordinary Family” by Margaret Mahy and Helen Oxenbury.
Stories […]
In our last post we reviewed Dinosaur Rocket, Penny Dales’s latest book in her fast, fun and furious Dinosaur series.
Kids are fascinated by dinosaurs size,unusual names and appearance.
There are many ways of extending the story reading and providing exciting early literacy learning opportunities, both at home,in early education centres and out and about.
Rhymes.
There are […]
Book Review : Dinosaur Rocket by Penny Dale.
What would dinosaurs do on the moon? Find out with the latest book in Penny Dale’s successful Dinosaur series.
Combine lively dinosaurs with a countdown and you have a story that kids will almost learn by heart and demand to be read again and again. Particularly good for […]
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