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Read Across the
Universe
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Older Readers

PRE-BOOK WEEK
EXTRAVAGANZA 2013
CBCA OLDER READERS
SHORT LIST 2013
Anne Sullivan
Children’s and Youth Library Officer,
City of Canterbury Library
AnneS@canterbury.nsw.gov.au

The Short List
• The Ink Bridge by Neil Grant
• Sea Hearts by Margo Lanagan
• The Shiny Guys by Doug MacLeod
• Creepy & Maud by Dianne Touchell
• Friday Brown by Vikki Wakefield
• The Wrong Boy by Suzy Zail

HSC English
• English Stage 6 Prescriptions 2015-2020
• 2014 Preliminary and 2015 HSC years
• The new Area of Study for Standard,
Advanced and ESL is Discovery
Discovering Self
Discovering Others
Discovering the World
• NSW Board of Studies : English Stage 6
Prescriptions 2015-2020: Advice to teachers

The Ink Bridge by Neil Grant
Publisher: Allen & Unwin
ISBN: 9781742376691
Pages: 264
Links To:
•Author’s Website
•Teaching Notes (18 pages)

• First Sentences: “Omed had the Buddha’s eyes and a
tongue that refused words. His was the silence if
caves; the false peace that descends when a mortar
shell rips apart a building.”
• Setting:
Begins pre-911 in Afghanistan
Follows Omed’s journey to
Australia
• Told in 3 parts from 2 perspectives

Themes / Subjects
• Asylum Seekers
• Intolerance
• War
• World Heritage Vandalism
• Journey’s

Read a-likes / Related Titles
• The arrival by Shaun Tan
• Boy overboard by Morris Gleitzman
• The happiest refugee by Anh Do
• Mahtab’s story by Libby Gleeson
• Walk in my shoes by Alwyn Evans

Awards
• Winner, 2012 Queensland Literary Awards
• Winner, 2012 Fellowship of Australian Writers National
Literary Awards – Barbara Ramsden Award
• Highly Commended, 2012 Fellowship of
Australian Writers National Literary Awards
- Christina Stead Award
• Shortlisted, 2013 CBCA Awards - Older
Readers Category
• Shortlisted, 2013 NSW Premier's Literary
Awards - Ethel Turner Prize (Young People's
Literature)

Sea Hearts by Margo Lanagan
Publisher: Allen & Unwin
ISBN: 9781742375052
Pages: 343
Links To:
Published in the US & UK as:
The Brides of Rollrock Island

• First Sentences: “ ‘The old witch is there,’ said
Raditch, peering over the top to Six-Mile Beach.
‘Well settled with her knitting.’ ”
• Setting:
Rollrock Island – presumably
part of Britain
Cordlin – mainland town
• Told in multiple voices
• Spans several generations

Themes / Subjects
• Myths and legends
• Selkies
• Magic
• Witches
• Honesty and truth

• The Folk Keeper by Franny Billingsley
• Seaward by Susan Cooper
• Seven Tears into the Sea by Terry
Farley
• The Water Shaper by Laura Williams
McCaffrey

Awards
• Winner, 2012 Aurealis Awards - Best Fantasy Novel
• Joint Winner, 2012 Aurealis Awards - Best Young Adult Novel
• Winner, 2013 Independent Booksellers of Australia Awards -
Best Children's & YA Book
• Winner, 2013 Norma K Hemming Award
• Shortlisted, 2013 NSW Premier's Literary
Awards - Ethel Turner Prize (Young People's
Literature)
• Shortlisted, 2013 Book Design Awards - Young
Adult
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Awards (cont.)
• Shortlisted, 2013 Stella Prize
• Shortlisted, 2013 Norma K Hemming Award for race, gender,
sexuality, class and disability in speculative fiction
• Shortlisted, 2013 CBCA Awards – Older
Readers Category
• Shortlisted, 2013 Ditmar Awards - Best Novel
• Shortlisted, 2012 Queensland Literary Awards
• Longlisted, 2013 UK CILIP Carnegie Medal
• Longlisted, 2012 Gold Inky for an Australian
YA Book

The Shiny Guys by Doug MacLeod
Publisher: Penguin Group
ISBN: 9780143565307
Pages: 260
Links To:

• First Sentences: “I share a room with a man who snores.
Every night I hear the snorts and rattles, as annoying as a
mosquito in my ear.”
• Setting:
Victoria, 1985
Ward 44, a mental institution
Imaginary world of Nestor
• Told primarily in Colin’s voice, but
also with small chapters from
Mango and Anthea’s perspectives

Themes / Subjects
• Mental illness
• ECT (electro convulsive
therapy).
• Medical institutions
• Hallucinations
• Imaginary worlds

• Invisible by Pete Hautman
• It's Kind of a Funny Story by
Ned Vizzini
• One Flew Over the Cuckoo's
Nest by Ken Kesey

Awards
• Shortlisted, 2013 CBCA Awards – Older Readers Category
• Shortlisted, 2012 Victorian Premier’s Literary Award (Prize for
Writing for Young Adults)

Creepy & Maud by Dianne Touchell
Publisher: Fremantle Press
ISBN: 9781921888953
Pages: 202
Links To:

• First Sentence: “My dad has trained our dog, Dobie
Squires, to bite my mum.”
• Setting
• Debut novel
• Told from 2 perspectives:
 Creepy’s chapters have a quote
at the beginning
Maud’s chapters have titles which
are separated into syllables and
end in a coda

Themes / Subjects
• Humorous fiction
• Friendship / Love
• Social misfits
• Mental illness
• Looking and being looked at

Awards

Friday Brown by Vikki Wakefield
Publisher: Text Publishing
ISBN: 9781921922701
Pages: 334
Links To:

• First Sentence: “My life has been told to me through
campfire tales— stories that spill over when the fire
has burned low and silence must be filled.”
• Setting:
Australian outback
Unnamed Australian city
Ghost town of Murungal Creek
• Told in first person by Friday Brown

Themes / Subjects
• Life change events
• Runaways
• Survival
• Relationships
• Storytelling and myths
• Homelessness
• Fate and destiny
• Water

Awards
• Longlisted, 2013 Gold Inky for an Australian YA Book

The Wrong Boy by Suzy Zail
Publisher: Black Dog Books
ISBN: 9781742031651
Pages: 256
Links To:

• First Sentence: “They came at midnight, splintering
the silence with their fists, pounding at our door until
Father let them in.”
• Setting:
Debrecen, Hungary
Auschwitz-Birkenau
• Told in first person by Hanna
Mendel

Themes / Subjects
• The Holocaust and the Jewish experience
• Appearance versus reality
• Survival
• Courage
• Family
• Love and romance
• Emotional and physical journeys
• Music

• Between Shades of Gray by Ruta Sepetys
• The Book Thief by Markus Zusak
• The Boy in the Striped Pyjamas by
John Boyne
• Briar Rose by Jane Yolen
• The Diary of a Young Girl by Anne
Frank
• “Once” series by Morris Gleitzman

Awards

Jill Bruce – NSW CBCA Judge
2012-2013

Younger Readers

Early Childhood

Picture Books

Bankstown City Library and Information Service
Picture book of
the year
Book Week 2013

The Coat
by Rob Brooks and Julie Hunt
“fast spinning music”
“heartbreaking gipsy music”
“crazy circus music”
“wild twirling song”
“long sad song”
“high-flying songs”
http://www.goodreads.com/book
/show/1406687.The_Hat

Tanglewood
by Vivienne Goodman and Margaret Wild
“We bring you
family”

Herman and Rosie
by Gus Gordon
“I have at last, after several months’ experience,
made up my mind that New York is a splendid
desert – a doomed and steepled solitude, where
the stranger is lonely in the midst of a million of
his race.” Mark Twaine
http://www.cousteau.org/abo
ut-us/jaques

Sophie Scott goes south
by Alison Lester
http://www.coolantarctica.com/Antarct
ica%20fact%20file/antarctica_animal.ht
m
http://www.coolantarctica.com/Antarcti
ca%20fact%20file/science/clothing_in_a
ntarctica.htm

A day to remember
by Mark Wilson and Jackie French
“Peace is too fragile
to be easily made or
kept.”

Picture References: In order of appearance
The Coat by Ron Brooks and Julie Hunt image by Syndetics via Library OPAC
The Hat by Tomi Ungerer on Good Reads website
http://www.goodreads.com/book/show/1406687.The_Hat
Peasant wedding dance by Breughel the Younger
http://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Pieter_Brueghel_the_Younger_-_Peasant_Wedding_Dance_(1623).jpg
Tanglewood by Vivienne Goodman and Margaret Wild by Syndetics via Library OPAC
Tropical Island Microsoft Clipart
Dolphins Microsoft Clipart
Tree and seagull Microsoft clipart
Herman and Rosie by Gus Gordon by Syndetics via Library OPAC
Map of New York City Microsoft Clipart
Record Microsoft Clipart
Sophie Scott goes south by Alison Lister by Syndetics via Library OPAC
Antartica map Microsoft Clipart
Paper dools Microsoft Clipart
Antarctic clothes on Cool Antartctica
http://www.coolantarctica.com/Antarctica%20fact%20file/science/clothing_in_antarctica.htm
Antarctic Animals on Cool Antarctica
http://www.coolantarctica.com/Antarctica%20fact%20file/antarctica_animal.htm
A day to remember by Mark Wilson and Jackie French by Syndetics via Library OPAC
Two up game from Australian War Memorial
http://www.awm.gov.au/collection/P05382.009
ANZAC Day march from State Library of South Australia
http://images.slsa.sa.gov.au/mpcimg/08000/B7798_50.htm
Lone Pine from Mick Stanic, Melbourne, Australia
http://trove.nla.gov.au/version/167482827
Poppy Microsoft Clipart

Lightning Jack by Patricia Mullins and Glenda Millard by Syndetics via Library OPAC
Phar Lap from State Library of Victoria
http://digital.slv.vic.gov.au/view/action/nmets.do?DOCCHOICE=114436.xml&dvs=1370308731940~728&locale=en_AU&search_term
s=&adjacency=&divType=&usePid1=true&usePid2=true
Equus Art
http://www.equusart.com/Image%2012.htm
Horses Microsoft Clipart
Man from Snowy River by A.B. Banjo Paterson by Syndetics via Library OPAC
Ned Kelly by Mark Greenwood by Syndetics via Library OPAC
Pegasus Microsoft Clipart
Minties sign. Made in house

Based on the story by Gus Gordon
Images in order of appearance:
New York Map Microsoft Clipart
New York Skyline Microsoft Clipart
City Lights Microsoft Clipart
Call Centre
http://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Callcentre.jpg
Dirty Dishes
http://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Dirty_dishes.jpg
Pugg Mahones Irish Pub by Alpha
http://www.flickr.com/photos/avlxyz/4984570055/
Night Sky by NessieNoodle
http://www.flickr.com/photos/52241821@N00/1110249024
Musical Notation Microsoft Clipart
Apartment 3a by Jimmy Harris
My Apartment by kenny-lex
Statue of Liberty Microsoft clipart
Empire States Building Microsoft Clipart
Brown Building in-house creation
Hotdog seller Microsoft Clipart
Central park by Doug Kerr
Moon Microsoft Clipart
Dragons Lair Nightclub on Wikimedia Commons
http://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Dragons_Lair_Nightclub_(2675867256).jpg

Information Books

Eve Pownall Award for
Information Books
Pre-Book Week Extravaganza 2013

Holroyd City Council Library Service
Children’s & Young Adults’ Team
Renea
Lisa Kirsty
Monica

Eve Pownall Award for Information Books
• Award to outstanding books
which have the prime intent to
document factual material
with consideration given to
imaginative presentation,
interpretation and variation of
style.
Eve Pownall c.1961
Image – Newcastle Morning Herald
collection, Newcastle Region Library

Python by Christopher Cheng & Mark Jackson
(published by Walker Books)
Christopher Cheng with a
python.

Python by Christopher Cheng & Mark Jackson
(published by Walker Books)
• Straight read – two people (narrator and NF
informant)
• Teacher’s notes - ideas and craft templates
http://www.walkerbooks.com.au/statics/dyn/1365484812434/Python-Teachers-
Notes.pdf
• Nature Storybooks series

Lyrebird! A true story
by Jackie Kerin and illustrated by Peter Gouldthorpe (published by
Museum Victoria)

by Jackie Kerin and illustrated by Peter Gouldthorpe (published
by Museum Victoria)
• Youtube clips – David Attenborough / Edith’s
lyrebird http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VjE0Kdfos4Y
• The Age article – take another newspaper
article – create a story
• Interview with the illustrator – ‘Under the
apple tree’ blog - http://angelasunde.blogspot.com.au/2012/12/lyrebird-
true-story-blog-tour.html

by Jackie Kerin and illustrated by Peter Gouldthorpe (published by
Museum Victoria)
• Link to Australian currency – look at the
different animals and people
• Find the bird game
• Guess that sound game – LYRE LYRE

FUN SONG TO GET YOUR ATTENTION
• Home among the gum trees – Robert Brown
EVERYONE STAND UP AND JOIN IN
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MLWzPQmd
5sc

Topsy Turvy World: How Australian animals
puzzled early settlers by Kirsty Murray (published by
National Library of Australia)

• Research assignment – 15 animals to report on and
present to the rest of the class
• Competition – What is your favourite ‘Australian
animal’ and why? Draw & colour
• Lyrebird reference – tie in with other title
• What is wrong with this picture?

What is wrong
with this
picture?

• Match the description to the animal
Eg. The beast had a broad flat tail and webbed feet. It looked as if the beak of
a duck had been stuck onto the head of a four-legged animal.
• Match the Animal Game – link indigenous
name to the picture of the animal

Tom the Outback Mailman
by Kristin Weidenbach and illustrated by Timothy Ide (published by
Lothian Children’s Books)

Tom the Outback Mailman
by Kristin Weidenbach and illustrated by Timothy Ide (published by
Lothian Children’s Books)
• Design a mailbox competition or decorate and
photograph your letterbox competition
• Look at old mailboxes
• You tube clips – Tom Kruse – Last Mail from
Birdsville (3 clips) http://aso.gov.au/titles/documentaries/last-mail-birdsville/clip1/
• Feltboard story

Portrait of Spain for Kids
by Queensland Art Gallery (published by the Queensland Art
Gallery / Gallery of Modern Art)

Portrait of Spain for Kids
by Queensland Art Gallery (published by the Queensland Art
Gallery / Gallery of Modern Art)
• Pepe’s Escape – online game
http://www.qagoma.qld.gov.au/kids/games_for_kids
• Look at other Spanish artists, Australian artists
• Portraits’ study – Qld Art Gallery (worksheet)
http://www.qagoma.qld.gov.au/kids/exhibitions/exhibition_archive/portraits_and_people_pictures

PORTRAIT OF SPAIN
FOR KIDS
QUEENSLAND ART GALLERY
GALLERY OF MODERN ART

Luca Giordano & Andrea Belvedere
Loo-kah
Jor-dah-no
Ahn-dray-ah
Bel-ved-eh-reh

Michel-Ange Houasse
Mee-shel-ansh
Oo-ahs

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