Kate Milliken

We are very excited to announce the 2022 CBCA Book Week theme! The illustrator for 2022 is children's picture book creator and Darug woman Jasmine Seymour, who won the CBCA Award for New Illustrator in 2020 for her beautiful book Baby Business, published by Magabala Books.

Do you read aloud to your kids? To your students? Here are just SOME of the benefits to doing so. 💛📚💛

New research by @EdithCowanUni's @MKMerga shows reading can help young people escape from sources of stress, find role models + develop empathy. 📚 With COVID being so dispiriting, there couldn't be a better time for kids to escape to fictitious worlds. bit.ly/2VurVz6

What a school library can do for you – research links slav.org.au/research-links

@EmilySignorini @yvetteposh @innejf @DARTLearningNSW @TheCBCA @CBCANSW I already have 😏. Waiting for them to announce the sessions.

@yvetteposh @innejf @DARTLearningNSW @TheCBCA @CBCANSW @ilykcake register us up!

Virtual Book Week is coming at you, NSW students, parents, teachers and carers! 2 sessions per day, panels of brilliant authors and illustrators and completely free through @DARTLearningNSW - register your interest now! Lineup and sessions revealed soon! #bookweek

To celebrate the first day of Book Week, the Library hosted a Manga Morning Tea, during which we revealed all of the new additions to our manga collection, which includes Haikyu!!!, Ao Haru Ride, and My Hero Academia. #CBCA2020

@EmilySignorini @BrightSideOfIG I’ll be trying this study technique myself!

@BrightSideOfIG @ilykcake I’ll get the kids to try this in the study

I’m going to have to use this new studying technique 🙌🙌🧠

Our amazing students created a beautiful video for us last week- check out our response to let them know that we are here for them and all in this together #studentsrock

@EmilySignorini @yvetteposh @T4L_DoE Yeah, that's a great idea! We could even have a writing competition and a prize?

@ilykcake @yvetteposh @T4L_DoE That’s what I was thinking, even a library initiative.

Very excited to announce a new, free digital writing program for Stage 1-4 students in Term 2. Join us @T4L_DoE for Everyone's an Author and hear from a fave Aussie kid's author every Friday at midday. Plus downloadable resources! Stay tuned...#t4l youtu.be/V2qK5vjkcNU

Can't wait! #edchat #writing #writingcommunity

@EmilySignorini @yvetteposh @T4L_DoE This would be great to do integrated with an English unit on writing, or a specific genre of writing... or even as 'Write Wednesday' lessons or something.

@yvetteposh @T4L_DoE @ilykcake check this out and let me know what you think.

Thankfully this one didn’t come with a 7 years bad luck clause.

This greatly impacts my Halloween decorating schedule.

@ksimpsonbooks @Toltzable @OverDriveLibs @Bolindaaudio @bluefirereader If you’re concerned about the temptation of games, you can use the Apple Classroom app to track what your kids are looking at, what apps they’re using. They simply sign in to the Classroom for the duration of the time you want them to be reading, and when they’re done, sign out.

@Toltzable @OverDriveLibs @Bolindaaudio @bluefirereader Yeah, I do wonder if the iPad might be just a bit too tempting...But maybe I'm just trying to justify an unnecessary isolation impulse by to myself.

With libraries closed, I'm thinking about a Kindle for the kids so I can e-borrow & so we don't drown under one new book per day per kid. But I have questions: Good/bad idea? What's the best e-reader? Do any smaller shops sell e-books or do I have to buy from You Know Who?

@dubohsee @ScottMorrisonMP @EmilySignorini, I’ll give it a pity like

Went for a quick hair cut tonight, followed by a takeaway meal from the food court, where dozens of people were aggravated about their unattended nails and cuticles. I went to go to my local trampoline venue but it was closed. Fuming! Help me @ScottMorrisonMP

Interrupting the increasingly terrifying schedule with some much needed cuteness:

@davidwalliams @EmilySignorini, I am sure you have already seen this, but just in case.

Those stuck at home with their kids may be able to relate to ‘The World's Worst Children’. I’ll be releasing an audio story every day for the next 30 days for free. First up is The Terrible Triplets! Enjoy. xxx Click here to listen bit.ly/AudioElevenses

📚 #TheReaderTeacherRecommends As schools are closed, I'll post a daily recommendation of a children's book, an extract or chapter from the book & resources, questions & ideas to help your child learn from the book. Please RT! Follow the hashtag & let's get reading together!📖

I've heard that coronavirus is going to cause a massive shortage of books, which will be essential when we're all stuck at home, so it's very important for everyone to rush out and start panic-buying novels. Thank you.

This remarkable 4-year-old is the advocate for reading we need right now #WorldBookDay 📚