1. Picture book of
the year
Short list review
Please note: the covers and artwork from the short listed books are not included in this
slideshare version of the presentation. If you would like to use the covers or artwork contact the
publishers for relevant permissions.
3. The Treasure Box
• Victims of war (people, history and cultures)
• What’s really important
• Links to “Once”, “Then” and “This silver donkey”
• Teachers notes available
• What would be in your treasure box? Share one classes ideas with
the next class.
• Older groups: UN refugee
“Everywhere I go, I am struck wit the resilience of people. This
resonates with me and I feel some sense of kinship, some part
of my own background, my own family story I have always
found something in common with then no matter how different
our backgrounds are.”
Khaled Hosseini
4. The Windy Farm
• Humerous books about renewable energy
• Renewable energy vs Non-renewable, Community vs Solo, Sharing
vs Greed
• Turning a disadvantage into an advantage
• Resilience
• Teachers notes available
• Renewable and non-renewable energy game
• Location based renewable energy game
• Lots of wind or flying papercrafts. Paper plane flying competition.
5. King Pig
• Younger children: kindness Older children: empathy/discrimination
• Emperor’s new clothes (thinking people will like them for what they
wear)
• Great way to talk about behaviour. How does pig’s behaviour affect
the sheep?
• Teachers notes available
• Why pig? Why sheep? Worthwhile discussing what we think of
other animals. E.g. Dogs, rabbits, Horses
• What are the attributes of a good leader?
• Piggy bank of kindness or Kindness crown.
6. Rules of Summer
• Siblings (cousins?) and relationship between ages
• Snapshots
• Relationship starts a little taunting, becomes darker and eventually
erupts in violence. Older (eventually) patches up the relationship
and looks after younger
• Requires high visual literacy (probably not good to a group)
• Shaun Tan interviews online
• Create own rules of summer
• Flashcard stories
• Digital images: tell a story in six shots
• Robots
• Crows, what do they mean in the story?
7. Silver Buttons
• Story starts on end papers (feather) and text starts before the title
page
• Amnesty International statement on Imprint page. How does this
inform our view of Silver Buttons
• Connect to reading. How the whole community is connected at the
moment a baby takes his first step.
• Teacher’s notes available
• Ripples in a pond.
• What would they be doing in that moment? Spread drawings
