1/40Darth Maul, aka Mrs Wickham, made an impressive entrance at Cranbourne West Primary School’s Book Week Parade.
Pictures: Melbourne’s best Book Week 2019 costumes
Wizards and ninjas and giants, oh my! Thousands of fictional characters appeared at Melbourne schools and we asked you to send us your photos. We’ve picked our top 40 cute and creative costumes — see them here.
2/40Caitlin dressed as The Mad Hatter.
3/40“Reading is My Secret Power”.
4/40Rhys dressed as Klaus Baudelaire from Lemony Snicket’s A Series of Unfortunate Events.
5/40Hartlee dressed as Fern from Charlotte’s Web, and Taelynn as Eleven from Stranger Things.
6/40Marnie, Chelsea and Milla dressed as Where’s Wenda for Book Week.
7/40I’m so tired after coloring all the biggest animals ... elephants, rhinoceros, whales.
8/40Ryan dressed as The BFG.
9/40Brooke dressed as Winnie the Pooh, Jessica as Harley Quinn and Ryan as The BFG.
10/40Alex dressed as Ninja Kid.
11/40Chloe, dressed as Fern from Charlotte’s Web, looks for Georgi (Where’s Wenda?).
12/40Charlie dressed as Harry Potter for his first Book Week.
13/40Emilia dressed as Super Girl.
14/40Will of Overport Primary in Frankston dressed as There’s a Hippopotamus on my Roof Eating Cake.
15/40Bella dressed up as Anne Bonny (female Irish pirate) and Lili dressed up as Dogman.
16/40Tyler from The Basin Primary School dressed up as an Enderman from Minecraft.
17/40Imogen and Charlotte Barrow dressed up as Where’s Wally?.
18/40Sakura and Daichi dressed as The Cat in The Hat.
19/40Ian dressed as an Ancient Roman legionary (who had not yet met Asterix or Obelix).
20/40Eden, Ryder and Sage in their Book Week costumes.
21/40Charlie dressed as Where’s Wally? for his first Book Week parade at Flinders Christian Community College in Tyabb.
22/40“Wingardium leviosa” - Sophie is all set for Book Week.
23/40Archie, 4, loved celebrating Book Week at Journey Early Learning, Whittlesea, in a robot costume made by his mum.
24/40Harry Potter and the “Gimme Money”.
25/40Shay has Hermione Granger down pat for Book Week.
26/40Amity dressed as Luna Lovegood from Harry Potter.
27/40Mum and baby sister Phoenix decided to join in on the Book Week fun as Goldilocks and the Three Bears.
28/40Blake dressed as Willy Wonka and Noah as Peter Rabbit.
29/40Darrell Rivers from Malory Towers made an appearance.
30/40Cruz dressed up as the Hulk and Mataya as Princess Jasmine.
31/40Little Cottontail.
32/40CJ dressed up as Pig the Star from Pig the Pug.
33/40Mason went as his idol - Mr Bean - for Book Week.
34/40Lily dressed up as Mrs Twit for Book Week at Gladstone Park Primary School.
35/40Belle from Beauty and the Beast.
36/40Harrison dressed up as Dogman.
37/40Grade 6 students Oliver and Jaxson wanted to go out with a bang for their last Book Week, so Anna and Elsa it was.
38/40Henry as Pikachu from the Pokémon books.
39/40Zaylee dressed as Buzz Lightyear from Toy Story.
40/40Gurbaz dressed as the Golden Ticket from Charlie and the Chocolate Factory.