LibGuides: ELC Book Week: CBCA Book Week 2020

Welcome to Book Week 2020

Welcome to the Book Week Guide for Prep students. Here you will find a range of resources to support running Book Week activities with your students.

CBCA Book Week 2020

Theme: Curious Creatures, Wild Minds

Dates: Term 4: 17 - 23 October 2020

#CBCA2020

Image credit: https://www.cbca.org.au/cbca-book-week-resources. Logo used in accordance with CBCA guidelines for school promotional purposes only.

General Resources

General Resources for Book Week

Notable books list 2020

Books which didn't quite make the shortlist but are still worth reading

Downloadable Colouring Posters and Bookmarks

Using the quirky artwork from Gwyn Perkins' 2020 CBCA Book Week theme, students can colour and create their own curious creatures on posters or bookmarks. Gwyn Perkins also offers tips and tricks to help students create and draw their own wild and curious creatures.

Teacher's tips for 'My Friend Fred'

Allen & Unwin have generously made teaching resources available for this book. These include a summary, discussion questions, information from the author and illustrator and more.

Craft ideas for Book Week 2020

Craft projects and ideas for curious creature designs and costumes.

CBCA Winners

CBCA Book of the Year 2020 Winners

My Friend Fred by Frances Watts; A. Yi (Illustrator)
Call Number: F WAT
ISBN: 9781760290948
Publication Date: 2019-05-06
This delightful CBCA short-listed picture book is about a friendship between an exuberant but loveable dachshund and his more retiring, tidy housemate.
I need a parrot by Christopher McKimmie
Call Number: F MCK
ISBN: 9781925804287
Publication Date: 2019
Summary: A young boy 'needs' a parrot. But what does a parrot need?.
Baby business by Jasmine Seymour
Call Number: F SEY
ISBN: 9781925768671
Publication Date: 2019
Summary: Follow Nanna through the gum trees to where family have gathered. Walk with bare feet and listen to country as it sings you awake. Today is our baby smoking ceremony. (Back cover).

Early Childhood Shortlisted Titles

We're stuck! by Sue DeGennaro
Call Number: F DEG
ISBN: 9781760663476
Publication Date: 2019
Summary: When Turtle races into the lift of Building 24, there is a nod and a blink and a step to the side. A grunt and a sigh and a lean to the right. But what happens when the life stops moving? Crocodile has a meeting to get to. And Giraffe has a doctor's appointment. And Turtle really, really needs to get to the shop. (Publisher).
One Runaway Rabbit by David Metzenthen; Mairead Murphy (Illustrator)
Call Number: F MET
ISBN: 9781760523558
Publication Date: 2020-08-01
A stylish and satisfying picture book about a curious pet rabbit who accidentally escapes the safety of her backyard, and then must survive in the wilds of suburbia at night.
Bat vs Poss by Alexa Moses; Anil Tortop (Illustrator)
Call Number: F MOS
ISBN: 9780734418388
Publication Date: 2020-09-08
Meek the possum and her sisters three are happy living in the sprawling paperbark tree - until the day Squabbles the bat moves in. A story about sharing and making friends.
When Billy was a dog by Kirsty Murray
Call Number: F MUR
ISBN: 9781760631826
Publication Date: 2019
Summary: 'Can I please, please, please have a dog?' asked Billy. 'Would you walk it every day and wash it if it got dirty?' 'I would, I promise!' said Billy. Billy wants a dog. He really really really wants one. Billy's parents aren't so sure. So one morning, Billy takes matters into his own paws.
Goodbye house, hello house by Margaret Wild
Call Number: F WIL
ISBN: 9781743311103
Publication Date: 2019
Summary: A heartwarming story about moving house and embracing change, of saying goodbye and saying hello. (Back cover).
Three by Stephen Michael King
Call Number: F KIN
ISBN: 9781760664053
Publication Date: 2019
Summary: One, two, three. Every day was a hop and a skip for Three. He was happy to walk from here to there, wherever his nose led, or wherever his legs took him all the way to new friends. Stephen Michael's King's whimsical tale of the simple pleasures and innocence of childhood. (Publisher).
Nop by Caroline Magerl
Call Number: F MAG
ISBN: 9781760651251
Publication Date: 2019
Summary: 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. So he watches the litter tumble until, armed with a new bow tie, he has an idea that will change his life forever. This story began with a memory of Caroline's school holidays in Sydney. Her father was welding a steel yacht in a boat yard and she wandered off only to discover the local dump, a home for the things people throw out! (Publisher).