Presentation by Paul MacDonald of the Children's Bookshop Beecroft to the Campbelltown & Liverpool School Library Network. An overview of the 2017 Book Week Shortlist

1. The Shortlist plus
Hot PICTUREBOOK Titles!
Escape to Everywhere!
Paul Macdonald
M Ed B Ed
The Children’s Bookshop
Beecroft
staff@thechildrensbookshop.com.au

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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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4. “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!

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

18. 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

24. Motifs

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

28. 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?

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

31. 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.

35. Stage 2

37. Stage 3/4

39. Stage 3/4

50. Best Selling Picturebooks

65. Junior Fiction

66. Fiction

67. “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
staff@thechildrensbookshop.com.au