Event: National Simultaneous Storytime ... from space!

This Wednesday is the annual National Simultaneous Storytime event.

This will be the 21st time it's been celebrated, and in recognition of this special milestone, the chosen story will be read from space!

Give Me Some Space!, written and illustrated by Philip Bunting, is the book being featured and will be read by an astronaut from the International Space Station.

In Give Me Some Space!, a young girl dreams about space and learns all about it. 

Will she be able to make her dreams come true? What will travelling into space be like?

Check your local public library for special screenings and events.

Last year's National Simultaneous Storytime had more than 1.2 million participants, so you will not be alone when you join the fun. You can take part from wherever in the world you are. Whether it's your library, home, school, or even outdoors.

Visit the National Simultaneous Storytime website for links to science-related videos including Moon Webcam, and astronaut skill tests you can try at home. Learn From Play have also provided a bunch of downloadable space-themed art and craft activities.

Don't miss out on this super special story time, all the way from space!

Review: Whitney and Britney: Chicken Divas

This picture book bedazzles from the get go. Explosive cover colour choices and a foiled glitter ball, (yes glitter ball!) shimmy in any light promising a fun ride ahead. 

Equally sparkly end pages in musk stick pink cement attention; you just know something wonderful and weird pulses within these pages, but what?

Two gorgeous chooks…with stunning good looks for starters! Whitney and Britney reside in a charming gypsy wagon adjacent to the flamboyantly fuchsia coloured house of Dora von Dooze, a fox with a penchant for pink. 

National Simultaneous Storytime 2020 with Whitney and Britney: Chicken Divas

National Simultaneous Storytime (NSS) is held annually by the Australian Library and Information Association (ALIA).

Every year a picture book, written and illustrated by an Australian author and illustrator, is read simultaneously in libraries, schools, pre-schools, childcare centres, family homes, bookshops and many other places around the country. Everyone can join NSS, it doesn't matter whether you are at home, a school, a public library or even a university library!

This year NSS takes place on Wednesday 27 May 2020 at 11.00 am.

Be part of the fun by sharing Whitney and Britney: Chicken Divas, written and illustrated by Lucinda Gifford. 

News: 2019 National Simultaneous Storytime

Wednesday 22 of May 2019 marks the 19th National Simultaneous Storytime event, an annual advocacy campaign, hosted by the Australian Library and Information Association.

Each year, one picture book is selected for a simultaneous read-aloud event held in libraries, schools, pre-schools, family homes, childcare centres, bookshops, children’s hospitals and communities across Australia and New Zealand, where two nations read together as one.
 

Last year we saw over 1 million kids join in the campaign. This year we aim to drive the numbers of participants even higher, to help promote the importance of reading and literacy for children.

News: National Simultaneous Storytime 2018

Two nations read together – let’s get 1 million kids reading! 

Wednesday the 23rd of May 2018 marks the 18th National Simultaneous Storytime event, an annual advocacy campaign, hosted by the Australian Library and Information Association.

Each year, one picture book is selected for a simultaneous read-aloud event held in libraries, schools, pre-schools, family homes, childcare centres, bookshops, children’s hospitals and communities across Australia. This year for the first time ever, children in New Zealand will join in and two nations will read together simultaneously. So, let’s get 1 million kids reading!