TERM 3 – TIME TO BOOK AN ADVENTURE!

Term 3 is the term we celebrate a love of books and where our imaginations, through reading, can take us. It is the term we have our Book Parade, Helensburgh Library visits for infants, Book Trivia, just to name some of the exciting things we have planned for later in the term.

The theme for the 2025 Children's Book Week is "Book an Adventure!". This theme encourages children to explore new worlds through stories and celebrates the 80th anniversary of Children's Book Week.

CBCA Shortlist Books

The Children’s Book Council of Australia (CBCA) was founded in 1945 in a time when Australian children’s books were few, and Australian authors and illustrators were virtually unknown. The following year, 1946 the 'The Book Of The Year Awards', an annual award to promote books of high literary and artistic quality was established. These awards are now the most influential and highly respected in Australia.

We are very fortunate at Holy Cross to purchase every year the (CBCA) Shortlist books that are aimed at the primary school level. We purchase from five categories – Younger Readers, Early Childhood, Picture Book, Eve Pownall, and New Illustrator. With the lead up to Book Week we, as a school, explore these books through classroom readings, Library lessons and the Book Week Trivia competition and they then become available for student borrowing after Book Week in Week 6.

Over the next few newsletters, I will highlight the books that made the shortlist that we have purchased for our Library. This newsletter, we will highlight Younger Readers and Early Childhood.

Early Childhood Shortlist books:

• Don’t Worry, Felix by Yohann Devezy & Katharine Alice, illustrated by Zoe
  Bennett (New Frontier Publishing)
• Everything You Ever Wanted to Know About the Tooth Fairy (And Some Things You Didn’t) by Briony Stewart (Lothian Children’s Books)
• How to Move a Zoo by Kate Simpson, illustrated by Owen Swan (A&U Books for Children and Young Adults)
• One Little Dung Beetle by Rhiân Williams, illustrated by Heather Potter & Mark Jackson (Wild Dog Books)
• Spiro by Anna McGregor (Scribble)
• The Wobbly Bike by Darren McCallum, illustrated by Craig Smith (Walker Books Australia)

Younger Reader Shortlist books:

• Aggie Flea Steals the Show by Tania Ingram, illustrated by A. Yi (Scholastic Australia)
• Fluff: Mess Up! by Matt Stanton, illustrated by Matt Stanton (ABC Books)
• Laughter is the Best Ending by Maryam Master, illustrated by Astred Hicks (Pan Australia)
• Saskia Spark-Lee: Fundraiser Fail by Rebecka Sharpe Shelberg, illustrated by Sofya Karmazina (Walker Books Australia)
• Tigg and the Bandicoot Bushranger by Jackie French (HarperCollins AU)
• To and Fro by Anton Clifford-Motopi (A&U Books for Children and Young Adults)
  
  

PREMIER’S READING CHALLENGE (PRC) UPDATE

We now have our first primary class who have completed the challenge – CONGRATULATIONS goes to Year 5!

Year 3 had their second session last Friday being their first time completing the challenge on their own and look how many finished – a mighty effort from Year 3.

Champions for this fortnight are:

Year 3 – Marley A., Kobi, Max, Emerson, Rafe, Blake, Ella, Marley H., Henry, Jack, Tallow, Noah, Bobby, Lyla, Seth, Kohen, Ruby, Noa

Year 4 – Grace, Rustin, Evie

Year 5 – Max, Seraphina, Eden, Taeya

Year 6 – Harrison, Sage, Adelaide, Cathal, Luke

Congratulations to the above students!

***Stay tuned to see who completes the Challenge next!***

SCHOLASTIC BOOK CLUB ISSUE 5 NOW OPEN

At Holy Cross, we promote the Scholastic Book Club - Book Club is a great way for parents to provide their children with popular literature in a variety of genres which aids in encouraging children to read. And they also make great gifts!

Book Club Issue 5 catalogues were sent home last week. These orders are due by 11 August 2025.

How to order:

* jump online to order: https://bookclubs.scholastic.com.au/

* if your order is a gift, you can nominate it online as ‘gift’.

* once the orders arrive, all parents are given a courtesy call.

PLEASE NOTE: all orders are done online, the school does not collect cash or cheques.

Library Warriors

An Interview With…Emilia (Year 1)

Note from Mrs Murray: Emilia is one of our newest team members and is very enthusiastic to learn the Library Warrior role. As with all new warriors, Junior Fiction is the place to start and Emilia is now very confident with this collection, helping others find where the picture books go. Emilia – welcome to the Library Warrior team!

What section are you responsible for?

Junior Fiction

What is your favourite book?

The Magic Kitten series by Sue Bentley

What do you love about being a Library Warrior?

I love putting the books away.

What is your favourite Library task?

I love being a Library Warrior a lot. I like learning new sections and helping Mrs Murray.

Happy reading everyone!

Sue Murray
Library Coordinator

SAVE THE DATE!

Book Week Parade

THURSDAY 21 AUGUST 

9.15AM