Mirrabooka 8 Sudbury Place, Mirrabooka

Osborne 9 Royal Street, Tuart Hill

Scarborough 173 Gildercliffe Street, Scarborough

City of Stirling Libraries Dianella Waverley Street, Dianella

Inglewood Corner Beaufort St & Tenth Avenue, Inglewood

Karrinyup Davenport Street, Karrinyup

Come Across the Story Bridge @ Your Library

City of Stirling Libraries invites your primary school class to be a part of our 2010 Children’s Book Week celebrations. Through exciting presentations and interactive workshops our guest authors will help your students explore the many new ideas and worlds you can reach when you cross the story bridge. This program has sessions suitable for junior and upper primary school students. We will aim to keep booked year groups within a year apart on a first in basis. Bookings are essential so print off a booking sheet from our website at: www.stirling.wa.gov.au/bookweek

Children’s Book Week Program 2010 Primary School Program

ProgramContent:

• Koob, The Story Keeper

• Elaine Forrestal, Nurturing the Imagination

• Norman Jorgensen, On Grand Adventures

• Nigel Gray , Prolific Children’s Author

• May O’Brien, Traditional Aboriginal Stories

• Waarda Series Stories with Pat Dudgeon and Cheryl Kickett-Tucker

www.stirling.wa.gov.au/home/library for updates and more….

From Junior Primary up Children’s Book Week Program

Koob - The StoryKeeper

Join Koob as he crosses different bridges into strange and exotic lands to find exciting stories to share with his audience. Drawing from myths, legends and traditional folklore from the varied cultures around our world, this show presents stories relevant to today's audiences. Koob’s story-telling is interactive, involving students in the telling of his tales and moti-vating children to read and write stories of their own. Expect these sessions to be loud, action packed and full of laughter and colourful props.

Koob - Fun with Story Telling Pre-primary to Year 3

Session Description

Monday 23 August Koob will once again excite young stu-dents with his theatrical story-telling of folk tales from around the globe.

Bringing your young students to see Koob perform his stories for a younger audi-ence will give them an early appreciation for the fun and wild possibilities of story-telling.

9.30am -10.15am Karrinyup Library

11.15am - 12.00pm

Scarborough Library

1.15pm to 2.00pm Osborne Library

Koob – Dramatic Storytelling Year 4 to 7

Session Description

Wednesday 25 Aug ust

Koob’s selection of stories for older students will enthral with their use of the theatrical techniques of dramatic narration and characterisation, comedy and drama.

Koob employs action, mime, costumes, masks, puppets, props and plenty of audi-ence involvement to help bring his stories to life.

The show is designed to promote books, reading, libraries and using the imagination.

9.30am - 10.15am

Dianella Library

11.15am - 12.00pm

Mirrabooka Library

1.15pm - 2.00pm Inglewood Library

Elaine Forrestal – Nurturing the Imagination

Elaine’s background as a pre-school teacher comes to the fore in her many books written for the very young through to the young adult. Her second picture book in the highly commended Miss Llewelyn-Jones series delights with the use of descriptive, rhythmic text to tell of wild antics.

Elaine also writes for older readers and in two recent titles; Black Jack Anderson and Straggler’s Reef, she has bought little known aspects of our early settler history to light.

Elaine Forrestal Teddy Bear Adventures

PP to Year 4

Session Description

Tuesday 24 August Students will be invited to use the Miss Llewelyn-Jones stories as the inspiration for their own teddy bear adventures. They can share their stories with Elaine and hear from the author herself about teddy’s next adven-ture in a reading and discussion of “Miss Llewelyn-Jones goes to town”.

9.30am – 10.15am Inglewood Library

11.15am – 12.00pm Mirrabooka Library

1.15pm – 2.00pm Scarborough Library Elaine Forrestal –Tales in History

Year 5 to Year 10 Session Description

Thursday 26 August A look at the process of researching our past and the rich source of stories our history can tell. Focusing on “Black Jack Anderson”, WA’s notori-ous pirate and “Stragglers Reef” a treasure hunt recounting events in the 1840’s.

9.30am - 10.15am

Karrinyup Library

11.15am - 12.00pm

Osborne Library

1.15pm to 2.00pm Dianella Library

See our session preparation ideas. www.stirling.wa.gov/bookweek

Author website: http://www.elaineforrestal.com.au/

Middle Primary Level Up Children’s Book Week Program

Norman Jorgensen – On Grand Adventures

In his author talks Norman shares his own experience of growing up in Narrogin during the 1960’s and becoming hooked on reading adventure stories. His latest books show the breadth of his story-telling prowess with Jack’s Island and In Flanders Fields bringing the reality of Australia’s involvement in the two World Wars into focus and his two Fine Mess titles demonstrating perfectly the art of slapstick.

Norman Jorgensen – War Stories Year 6 to Year 10

Session Description

Monday 23 August Both of Norman’s war stories give a very personal account of the impact of war; one from soldiers on the battlefield and one from a family working to secure our defences on Rottnest Island. Hear Norman talk about the writing of these two accounts of the impact of war and how his own beliefs underpin the storylines.

9.30am - 10.15am

Dianella Library

11.15am - 12.00pm Inglewood Library

1.15pm - 2.00pm Mirrabooka Library

Norman Jorgensen Slapstick Humour

Year 4 to Year 7

Session Description

Wednesday 25 August Are you into humour, do you want to write stories that will give people a belly ache from laughing so hard. If the answer is yes, then you will want to learn about the art of slapstick humour. Join Norman as he talks about the antics of his character Michael Hardy as he gets himself into another fine mess.

9.30am - 10.15am

Scarborough Library

11.15am - 12.00pm Osborne Library

1.15pm - 2.00pm

Karrinyup Library

Nigel Gray – Prolific Children’s Authors Nigel is a prolific writer of more than sixty chil-dren’s books over more than 30 years and has gained international acclaim for many of his titles. His latest title A Baker’s Dozen includes 13 fun, charming and thought provoking stories. Other recent titles such as Saving Jasper, Don’t Be Afraid and The Flood demonstrate his skill at telling stories that connect with children on issues they care about.

Nigel Gray – Cooking up Tales Year 3 to Yrs 5

Session Description

Tuesday 24 August Nigel has been writing stories for more than 30 years – he will share his story tell-ing secrets and what inspires him to keep writing. Readings from a Baker’s Dozen.

9.30am - 10.15am Dianella Library

11.15am - 12.00pm Karrinyup Library

1.15pm - 2.00pm Osborne Library

Nigel Gray – Dare to Care Year 6 to Year 7

Session Description

Thursday 26 August Nigel’s books are often applauded for the way they talk about important issues in ways children connect to. This session will focus on getting children to think about what they really care about and how they would write about it.

9.30am - 10.15am

Inglewood Library

11.15am - 12.00pm

Mirrabooka Library

1.15pm - 2.00pm Scarborough Library

Visit Nigel’s website to view the many great books he has published. http://www.nigelgray-author.com/

See our the Stirling Library website for some ideas for preparing your students for these sessions at: www.stirling.wa.gov.au/bookweek Also see Norman’s Author website for extensive teachers notes for his books at: http://www.normanjorgensen.com.au/index.html

www.stirling.wa.gov.au/home/library for updates and more….

First Australian’s Stories Children’s Book Week Program

Story-telling is an integral part of Aboriginal culture, from traditional use of animal fable to teach and convey culture, to modern day stories about what it means to live and be part of country and community. They are an important and powerful bridge between Indigenous and non-Indigenous people. Come across the story bridge with us in a special day to celebrate the richness of Aboriginal story-telling and story tellers; both traditional and contemporary.

May O’Brien – Traditional Story Telling Indigenous elder, school teacher, children’s book au-thor and indigenous literacy advocate, May O’Brien, will be joining us to talk about the importance of tradi-tional story-telling in Indigenous culture. She has helped to share the stories passed down by the Wongutha Elders to their children by translating and writing them down for publication. These won-derful stories have recently been re-printed by Fre-mantle Press as the “Bawoo Stories” collection.

May O’Brien – Bawoo Stories Year 1 to 7

Session Description

Friday 27 August Join May O’Brien as she shares with us the importance of traditional stories to Aboriginal people to their relationship to their land, their people, and their beginnings and how to live. Local class-rooms are invited to help re-tell some of these wonderful Indigenous stories. Come and enjoy the performances.

9.30am - 10.15am

Osborne Library

11.15am - 12.00pm Mirrabooka Library

1.15pm - 2.00pm Scarborough Library

Waarda – Indigenous Children’s Stories for Today The Waarda Series of books edited by Sally Morgan are about creating a great range of children’s stories written by Indigenous people with Indigenous charac-ters and themes.

As such they both support the literacy development of Indigenous children and share the richness and depth of Indigenous story telling with non-Indigenous children.

Dr. Pat Dudgeon and Dr. Cheryl Kickett-Tucker are respected academics who have both played a lead-ership role in researching social psychology and In-digenous issues and how this impacts on education models and practices. Both have recently published a children’s book for the Waarda series.

Pat co-authored “Lily and her Shadow” with her niece Laura Dudgeon, which tells the story of a young girl leaving her Bardi roots to pursue an education in Perth; the transition made easier with a very special secret friend.

Cheryl has just published “Barlay” a modern day tell-ing of a traditional woordatj story that tells of what happens to the three young characters when they wander off into the bush despite their Nan’s warn-ings. Cheryl’s family has strong links to Noongar country, through the Wadjuk people on her mother’s side and the Ballardong people on her father’s side.

Pat Dudgeon & Cheryl Kickett-Tucker On Secret Friends & Scary Stories

Years 5 to 9

Session Description

Friday 27 August

Join these two dynamic Aboriginal women as they talk about the importance of story-telling, connection to country and of family in contemporary Indigenous life.

Students are invited to bring along ideas and/or artworks depicting their secret friend .

9.30am - 10.15am

Inglewood Library

11.15am - 12.00pm Dianella Library

1.15pm - 2.00pm Karrinyup Library

Traditional Story Enactments

We invite three classrooms to be an active part of this Children’s Book Week event with May O’Brien by helping to bring these stories to life with costumes and actions.

May has agreed to personally visit these groups in the lead up to Children’s Book week to talk about these traditional Indigenous stories and the lessons that are in them.

Call our Community Development Librarian, Lucia Ravi on 9345 8816 for more information.

See our Waarda & Bawoo session preparation ideas. www.stirling.wa.gov/bookweek

Visit Fremantle Press for more teaching note ideas http://www.fremantlepress.com.au/

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School Booking Sheet Children’s Book Week 2010

Across the Story Bridge—21-27 August

To ensure that all schools have access to our Children’s Book Week program, BOOKINGS ARE ESSENTIAL and must be made using this form. Having selected the sessions that interest you from the program, please indicate your preferences on this form along with your class details. We suggest you select 3 to 4 session preferences. Email the form to stirling.libraries@stirling.wa.gov.au or fax to the number provided by Monday 22 June 2010. You will be notified of first round offers by Friday 2nd July 2010. Please fill in only one booking sheet for your class group. Phone Lucia (9345 8816) or Candice (9345 8590) for further information or assistance.

ATTENTION Community Development Librarian DEPARTMENT City of Stirling - Library Services FAX 9345 8822 SUBJECT Children’s Book Week Preference Booking Sheet

PLEASE NOTE: Bookings cannot be made through library branches. All enquiries should be directed to the City of Stirling Library Services on 9345 8590 or via email to stirling.libraries@stirling.wa.gov.au