Liberty Public Library presents Storytime Travel Series: Australia

1. Liberty Public
Library
Story Time
Storytime Around the
World:
Australia
Welcome Song:
Are you listening?
Are you listening?
Yes I am! Yes I am!
Now it’s time for Story Time,
Now it’s time for Story Time,
Yes it is! Yes it is!
World Cooking:
Anzac biscuits
Kookaburra
Ingredients
2 cups rolled oats
2 cups flour
2 cups coconut
1 1/2 cups sugar
250g butter
4 tbsp golden syrup
1 tsp baking soda
2 tblsp boiling wate
Directions
Turn oven to 160°C. Lightly grease oven trays.
Place oats, flour, coconut, sugar in big mixing bowl.
Melt butter and golden syrup in saucepan. Take off heat.
Mix baking soda and boiling water in a cup. Add to melted
butter mixture in the pan. Quickly add to big mixing bowl.
Mix well.
Roll tablespoonfuls of the mixture into balls. Place on trays
5cm apart. Press lightly with fork.
Bake for 20 minutes.
Retrieved from kidspot.come.au/kitchen/recipes
Kookaburra sits in the old gum tree
Merry, merry king of the bush is he
Laugh, Kookaburra! Laugh, Kookaburra!
Gay your life must be
Kookaburra sits in the old gum tree
Eating all the gum drops he can see
Stop, Kookaburra! Stop, Kookaburra!
Leave some there for me
Kookaburra sits in the old gum tree
Counting all the monkeys he can see
Stop, Kookaburra! Stop, Kookaburra!
That's not a monkey that's me
Kookaburra sits on a rusty nail
Gets a boo-boo in his tail
Cry, Kookaburra! Cry, kookaburra!
Oh how life can be

2. Book Recommendations
Created By Samantha Colwell, 2016, Liberty Public Library
Tips for Parents:
Not only does helping your child to be a
citizen of the world promote a global
sense of togetherness, but it also helps
your child’s early literacy! Learning
about other communities, countries, and
people around the world requires
learning a more advanced vocabulary,
and puts them ahead in critical and
abstract thinking.
*Where is Australia? (It is
highlighted in red below)
* Australia is the smallest inhabited
continent. Inhabited means that
people live on it!
Facts and Figures!
*Koalas cling to
the branches of
eucalyptus trees
and eat the
leaves.
Does this blue fish below look familiar? It’s Dory from
Finding Nemo! She remembered an address in Sydney,
Australia! Sydney opera house (featured on the left) is a
popular sight in Australia.
Wombat Walkabout
By Carol Shields
“Early one morning when the sun
came out, six woolly wombats went
walkabout. They didn’t see the dingo
with the hungry eye, he has a hunch
his lunch just walked on by.”
Does A Kangaroo Have A
Mother Too?
By Eric Carle
“Meet the little joey, whose kangaroo
mother carries him in her pouch.”
Marsupial Sue
By John Lithgow
“If you’re a kangaroo, through and
through, just do what kangaroos do.
Young Sue really doesn’t like being a
kangaroo, so she goes off to find some-
thing better.”