Edgeworth Students Vote for CBCA Early Childhood Book of the Year 2015

The Edgeworth students' voting results are in for the best Early Childhood Book of the Year 2015.

Our winner is Pig the pug    2nd: A house of her own   3rd: Go to sleep, Jessie!

4th: Noni the pony goes to the beach  5th: Scary night   6th: Snail and turtle are friends.

The Australian judges chose Go to sleep, Jessie! and gave honours to Scary night & Noni the pony.

Picture Book of the Year went to My two blankets, with honours to One minute's silence & The stone lion.

And now for the Edgeworth PS winners of the 2014 Children's Book Council Awards:

Early Childhood winners CBC votes 2014 Early

Winners of Picture Book of the Year CBC votes 2014 picture

And the Judges awards go to The Swap ( I'm a dirty dinosaur and Banjo and Ruby Red as honour books) in the Early Childhood category while Rules of Summer won the Picture Book of the Year Award (with King Pig and Silver Buttons as honour books)

For those in Stage 3, A very unusual pursuit won the Younger Readers award (My life as an Alphabet and Light Horse Boy - honour books) and the Eve Pownall award for information texts went to Jeremy (Welcome to my country and Ice, Wind, Rock - honour books). We have all these books in our library if you wish to borrow them in the future.

To see the Early Childhood and Picture Books of the Year for 2013, and before, please visit Mrs Buckler's site.  She has organised lots of fun activities for us again this year.  Thanks Mrs Buckler, the busy bee!!!

Mrs B's site

Winners of the Early Childhood Picture Book of the Year 2013 - ES1, S1 & S2 students' choice at Edgeworth PS

WINNERS OF CBCA 2013 “READ ACROSS THE UNIVERSE”  - Judges' Choice

Early Childhood Book of the Year 2013

NOTE: Intended for children in the pre-reading to early reading stages

2012 Children's Book Week winners selected by Edgeworth Public School
EarlyChild2012

Picturebook2012

WINNER: Bob Graham   A Bus Called Heaven

HONOUR: Ron Brooks                    The Dream of the Thylacine

Text. Margaret Wild

HONOUR: Bruce Whatley                Flood

Text. Jackie French

Special links for Flood by Jackie French and Bruce Whatley about the Brisbane January 2011 Floods.

Nine News: Wall of water surging through Toowoomba

Time lapse of Brisbane River in flood

Floating river walk and catamaran

Boat on broken pontoon under bridge

Tugboat manoeuvres river walk and saves Gateway Bridge and  another view of this amazing feat!

Week 6, Term 3, 2011

If you have enjoyed some of the creative activities on the National Gallery of Art site in Washington, click on the STUDENT page to find some more fun activities or go to the site here to explore everything in the  NGAkids site

Week 3, Term 3

After reading The bike Ride from "Maudie and Bear" Early Stage 1 children can sort which the order in which Maudie took items.  Go to Drop box W in School intranet.

Find out how to say words in many other languages, especially aboriginal languages of Australia including the Awabakal language of our area.  Click on Jennifer's Language Page

Courtesy of Jennifer's Language Page at www.elite.net/~runner/jennifers

Week 2 Term 3

Jeannie Baker makes all her illustrations using a technique called COLLAGE. Try making some collages of your own - some that look real or are just collections of things, by clicking here. Collage fun!

Week 8, Term 3

A different kind of library - biblioburro

Week 1 Term 3

ONE WORLD, MANY STORIES - 2011 CHILDREN'S BOOK WEEK This year we will be reading all the Early Childhood and 5 of the Picture Books of the Year, as well as 3 of the Eve Pownall Information Books that have been entered in this year's competition. You will have a chance to vote on the ones that you think should win their category, so as we read together be thinking about the one you would choose. But first, let's think about this year's theme: One world, Many stories. For as long as we can remember people have been telling stories - to teach, to entertain, to pass down the history of those people.  Many cultures have similar stories, explaining how the world became and about beliefs. As people travelled around the world, so did their stories, translated from the many languages of the countries that make up our world. Click on the links below to find out more.

One World, Many Stories theme music

Saying hello - different languages.

African stories - Tinga Tinga

Trickster Tales

National Gallery of Art  NGAkids Jungle

Switcheroo Zoo - have fun making new animals from different parts.

Flags of the World - try these sites! http://flags2000.com.au/world.htm; http://www.flags.net/

https://www.cia.gov/library/publications/the-world-factbook/docs/flagsoftheworld.html

Congratulations to Pravin Jaisankar who correctly identified the newest country in the world to be South Sudan which celebrated its independence on July 7 this year (2011).  The colours of the flag (according to Wikipedia, 29.07.2011)  "are said to represent the South Sudanese people (black), peace (white), the blood shed for freedom (red), the land (green) and the waters of the Nile (blue); the gold star, the Star of Bethlehem, represents unity of the states of South Sudan."  It was adopted following the signing of the Comprehensive Peace Agreement that ended the Second Sudanese Civil War.

Flag of South Sudan

Use	National flag
Adopted	9 July 2005
Design	A white-fimbriated horizontal tricolour of black, red, and green with a blue triangle at the hoist charged with a five-pointed gold star.

Click here on Angel Kids Reading Round the world dolls if you would like to make some of the paper dolls and their clothes.  Thanks to Angel Street Kids, Sarah Treu.

RESULTS OF EPS VOTING FOR CBC BOOKS OF THE YEAR, 2010 After reading all 12 of the Shortlisted 2010 CBC books in the Early Childhood and Picture Book of the Year Categories, our students voted for their favourites.    There were definitely two clear winners.  We didn't agree with the National judges' decisions but we certainly enjoyed the ones we voted for. Find out the results in by clicking on these two bar graphs.

Early Childhood Book 2010

Picturebook of the Year 2010

Early Childhood Book of the Year 2010

Picture Book of the Year 2010

Earlier this year judges from the Children's Book Council of Australia decided on the winners of the Early Childhood and Picture Book of the Year as well as other categories.  The theme this year is "Across the Story Bridge."  You might like to put the theme banner together by visiting jigsaw (from Ipswich TL network). There are lots of fun activities connected with these books. Visit this page each week to see what we will be doing in Library lessons. We have  read The Wrong Book and Fox and Fine Feathers by Narelle Oliver. Thank you Mrs Buckler for permission to link to your wonderful Book Week and School Daze site. Visit the Bata Shoe Museum here to check out shoes Around the World and then find out how to make blind-contour drawings of your shoe. Rebecca Cool did Isabella's Garden illustrations in a folk art style. Visit Adri's art angel to see a time-lapse film about how artists create pictures in this style. Check out this vimeo to find out how Andrew Joyner, the South Australian illustrator, created his bear character for Ursula Dubosarsky's The Terrible Plop. How to draw a bear (from The Terrible Plop) from Andy Joyner on Vimeo.