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With Book Week wrapped up, we’ve put the callout to find Toowoomba’s favourite costume from the fun-filled event. Here’s how you can have your say.
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We’re looking to find Toowoomba’s favourite Book Week costume.
Readers late last week submitted photos of their dressed up little ones, and now it is time to crown your favourite.
At Mater Dei Primary School, students paraded dressed as everything from Minions to fairies to Batman.
Throughout Book Week, Mater Dei hosted activities in the library including a reading hour on Wednesday and on Friday, parents were invited to join in on the festivities by reading their children’s favourite book on the oval.
The theme of this year’s Children’s Book Council of Australia (CBCA) Book Week was ‘Dreaming with Eyes Open’ which was about dreaming of the future, of our world or even for yourself, Mater Dei’s teacher librarian Meredith Thompson said.
“It’s a really open theme that can be kind of whatever you want it to be … reading is dreaming with eyes open,” she said.
Ms Thompson spoke of the importance of reading, and how it underpinned everything that we do in every facet of our daily lives.
“Reading develops, empathy develops, understanding for those around us, helps us to relax,” she said.
“In such a busy world where so much is screen dominated, it really gives the children a time to be quiet and relax and be still.”
Mater Dei’s principal Michael Ball said school isn’t all about the “hard yakka” in the classrooms; it’s about getting out and celebrating books in any form or any fashion.
“We can open up this amazing world for every child as long as we get them into a book where we teach them how to read,” he said.
“My personal philosophy as principal and teacher is once we get them to read, all the rest of education opens up for them.”
Dressed as Claris from the children’s book series Claris by Megan Hess, Prep student Adeline Devey said she chose to dress up as the mouse because she loves the pictures in the book.
CBCA’s Book Week has run since 1945, and this year, schools and public libraries celebrated books and Australian children’s authors and illustrators from August 20 to 26.
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