One World, Many Stories
2011 Book Week Theme

Book Week Websites

Children's Book Council of Australia purchase merchandise to support the theme
Children's Book Week theme page from edna with links to resources and online projects
Mrs Mac's Library compiled by Sharon McGuiness Teacher Librarian Thirroul PS
Book Week Games for Early Childhood from Mrs Buckler's website including games and activities for Picture Book category, and Younger Readers category
Smart Notebooks and units created by Stacey Graham Teacher Librarian Our Lady of Lourdes, Tarro NSW
Front covers of the shortlisted books by category
Children's Book of the Year Awards prepared by Kerri Cicolani
Junior Judges Project register and vote for your favourite shortlisted book
Ipswich District Teacher Librarian Network order the much anticipated Book Week publication
Read about the Niland Park family famous Australian authors/illustrators with shortlisted books in this year's shortlist
Print out these flag outlines identify the country and colour to complete them
Angel Street Mom has produced some printables. Follow the 'Reading around the world' link
International Children's Digital Library electronic stories in many languages
Kamishibai Japanese storytelling form with cards
One world many stories a cultural and literary journey through 9 countries
Read Toppling then watch this Domino Effect of books YouTube video
My Uncle's Donkey by Tohby Riddle. author notes and a unit of work
Mirror by Jeannie Baker. Classroom ideas from Walker Books
Two peas in a pod by Chris McKimmie. Teachers' notes from Allen & Unwin
Why I love Australia by Bronwyn Bancroft. Teachers' notes from Little Hare
Family Forest by Kim Kane and Lucia Masciullo. Teachers' Notes from the publisher.

Adapt the theme

                                         One world, many stories
                                                  can become:
One series, many titles explore the Aussie Bites and Aussie Nibbles series, The Deep End is one and it is shortlisted this year
One world, many traditions take this quiz on world dining etiquette
One author, many stories explore other titles that authors of Aussie Nibbles and Aussie Bites have written
One family, many branches read Family Forest by Kim Kane and draw a family tree for the main character. Compare this family to your family
One illustrator, many authors use WebEnquiry (via your portal if this link doesn't work) to find out what books your favourite illustrator has illustrated. Discuss how the illustrations add to the story in each book.
One author, many illustrators locate books by an author whose work is illustrated by different illustrators. (Do you really need the link to WebEnquiry to locate these books?) Discuss how the illustrator's artistic style adds to each story, forming your own opinion on your observations.
One world, many kinds of libraries find out how people access books in different parts of the world. Watch this YouTube video from Colombia about the biblioburro which brings books on a donkey. In our library, read My librarian is a camel by Margriet Ruurs, The librarian of Basra and Biblioburro both by Jeanette Winter.

                      Can you think of other ways to adapt the theme?
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Travel the world through story

Travel the world through story, continent by continent. See how many countries (follow the alphabet like in this Slideshare presentation) you can cover by finding stories from or about those countries. Here's a start for titles from the countries of Africa. Map your journey  by writing the title of the book on a world map. Like Jeannie Baker does in Mirror compare life in different countries. Study the art styles of the different countries and illustrate a text like Bronwyn Bancroft's book Why I love Australia. It could be a poem or prose like in Sally Murphy's Toppling. 

Other Book Awards 2011

Find out who are the winners of other book awards for the year. Includes adult and children's fiction and non-fiction.
Indie Awards 2011 Independent booksellers. Best non-fiction The happiest refugee by Anh Do. Best children's book Mirror by Jeannie Baker
Patricia Wrightson Prize for Children's Literature part of NSW Premier's Literary Awards 2011. Shortlist announced. Also includes Mirror by Jeannie Baker
Miles Franklin shortlist announced, read this overview on the Boomerang Books site
KOALA Kids Own Australian Literature Awards 2011 shortlist
Prime Minister's Literary Awards scroll down to see the winner of the children's section, a book we have in our library


Listen to this song. Make a note of the stories he mentions. Search the web or library catalogues to find the titles. Submit your answers to Mrs Tokatlian to enter the One world, many stories competition 2011.

The first 30 students who can memorise the rap part of this song will perform it at our Book Week celebrations. Find the words to the song here.
Which one of these books is not on the 2011 CBCA shortlist?
A bookmark for every Jasper Road student who can answer this question correctly.