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How to share 100 Stories with your family

Download the booklist
Find which books you would both like to read
Borrow from your library, friends and family or buy
Make some homemade books
Suggest books for your playgroup and early education centre to buy for families to borrow
Ask families and friends for books as gifts on birthdays or special occasions
Add your favourite books (not on the list) to the back page
Download bookmarks and other resources as you read the books
When you have reached 100 books, download the certificate for your child. Congratulations!!!
We will be adding more books each year- watch out for them!

Find your own stories – use our categories

Use our booklist story titles to help you to choose other stories that are similar.

Read a few, or many, and choose your own to reach 100 stories and download our certificate for your child.

100 Stories Categories

Aboriginal

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Alphabet

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Australian authors and illustrators

FB 6 Greetings from Sany Beach

Award winning or shortlisted books e.g. from Children’s Book Council of Australia

ED 14 The Terrible Suitcase HB copy

Fun

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Homemade- photo books, recipe books, scrapbooks, and memory books

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Iconic, loved for many years by many children

FB 10 We're Going on a Bear Hunt

Maths concepts

FB 11 Ten scared fish

Multicultural- celebrate diversity, includes books for families home languages

Fb 12 My Granny went to market copy

Non-fiction

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Rhythmic/rhyming

Fb 14 Room on the Broom

Traditional tales

FB 15 yummy from walker website

Video (read online) and e books

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Wordless

Fb 17 Lion and the Mouse copy

Download How To Use 100 Stories Before School as a PDF
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Build your own library

Children who have books in their homes are proven to have more early literacy skills when they start school.

(Australian) Places to find books:

Your local Library – it’s free and you can borrow lots of books and DVDs
Garage sales
Book fairs
Some dollar or $2 shops
Second hand bookshops
Markets
Your local bookshop– especially small, locally owned, independent bookshops like the Beecroft Children’s Bookshop (Sydney)
Some publishers have large book sales- Scholastic is one.

Online (Australia)

Booko is an online site where you can compare prices for books from different online retailers. It includes used books for sale. It does not give all retailers, mainly larger ones. It may include overseas retailers.

Many publishers have online shops
Large stores (Australia): ALDI, BIG W, and K Mart can have cheaper books. David Jones often has a carefully chosen children’s section
Post office shops can have book packs, especially around Christmas- excellent value
Subscribe to Storybox Library– all Australian books read online
Try and support independent Australian online shops:

The Kids Bookshop

Story Mama

Booktopia