What is the longest running children’s festival in Australia?
Who is the national patron of the Children’s Book Council of Australia?
What is the theme of this year’s Book Week?
Where can you find the Short List and Notables List for the categories for Children’s Book of the Year?
Questions that any library would be happy to answer! Find the answers to these questions and more information from CBCA’s Book Week. The pages contain great ideas for celebrating Book Week in school libraries. There are also links to other sites which have created resources for promoting Book Week, which is celebrated from 21 to 27 August 2010.
Book Week helps encourage Australian book creation. Our children should have access to Australian literature as part of their reading development. Who do you think will win in the five categories? This year’s Children’s Book of the Year is announced on Friday 20 August 2010. We will have to wait for the big announcements which are usually reported in the major newspapers the next day.
