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Our annual Book Week Fancy Dress Parade will be held on Friday August 26.
Our theme for dress up this year is “Topsy Turvey”, For example an Astronaut in soccer shorts and boots, a Dinosaur with an ice-cream container head.
Basically a costume this year can be anything that students can ‘Dream up’.
Our Year 6 Bookworms will be reading “There’s No Such Book” by Jessica Dettmann to the students next week to help inspire them when creating their own costumes.
Our Kindy and PP students will participate in a tour of our local library later this term.
Our Year 1-6 students will participate in an Illustrator Workshop during book week with local Western Australian Author/Illustrator Katie Stewart.
Katie Stewart in her own words… ‘As one of six, I was blessed with a childhood full of fun, where imagination and creativity were encouraged. Shelves full of books offered trips to completely new places.
If I wasn’t reading, I was drawing, everything from animals to fantasy worlds. When we came to Australia, just after my ninth birthday, my outside real world changed a lot, but home was still the same. From being young, I loved animals as well as drawing and writing, and dreamed of being the next Beatrix Potter when I grew up.
If truth be told though, I don’t think I ever really grew up and for one reason or another, my dream lingered at arm's length. I became an archaeologist, teacher, mother and library assistant before venturing into self-publishing and now, at last, publication with the wonderful Fremantle Press.
"What Colour is the Sea?" came out in March, 2020 and "Where do the Stars Go?" in 2021. May, 2022 will see the publication of a third. I live in rural Western Australia, with my farmer husband, three children and a menagerie of pets, in a house full of dust and mayhem.
I like to call it a creative mess.’
Katie Stewart - Katie Stewart (katiestewartauthorillustrator.com)
