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The Shortlist plus Hot PICTUREBOOK Titles ! Escape to Everywhere! Paul Macdonald M Ed B Ed The Children’s Bookshop Beecroft [email protected]

Transcript of Shortlist 2017

The Shortlist plus

Hot PICTUREBOOK Titles!

Escape to Everywhere!

Paul MacdonaldM Ed B Ed

The Children’s BookshopBeecroft

[email protected]

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“Reading for pleasure is the most

important way to advance literacy

attainment in children.”National Literacy Trust UK 2006

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“There is a secret trail of books meant to

inspire and enlighten you. Find that trail.”

Ben Okri

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How do we

promote the

trail?

We market

reading!

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YYO9u3Em9

Gaps and Silences…

“….(children) fill in the details, they are

learning to interpret the gaps, to “read

between the lines”.https://www.researchgate.net/publication/49588521_Using_Pict

ures_and_Picture_Books_to_Create_Readers_and_Thoughtful

_Readings

Themes:

Family

Memory loss

Love

Importance of

memories

Photography

Motifs

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=l7v9FC4vSdA

Endpapers are the first and last pages of a picture book, usually

stuck to the inside of the front and back cover. How do the

endpapers in Gary give the reader clues about the story?

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dCd4EupyeiM

An adventurous young wombat finds his way around a

winter landscape before snuggling back into his own cosy

burrow.

Snow on the stockman's hut

Snow on the crows

Snow on the woollybutt

Snow on my NOSE!

It's a big journey through the snow for a little wombat,

meeting animals, birds and people along the way...but

there's no place like home!

A heartwarming story set in the Australian High Country.

Stage 2

Stage 3/4

Stage 3/4

Best Selling Picturebooks

Junior Fiction

Fiction

“Children who know adults who read for pleasure take it for granted that

reading is a valuable and worthwhile activity”

(Csikszentmihalyi, 1991)

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Paul Macdonald

M Ed B Ed

The Children’s Bookshop

Beecroft

[email protected]