Eve Pownall

2023 CBCA Eve Pownall Award description

Magpie

Students took original photographs of birds in various locations in Melbourne and paired them with words inspired by the original book.

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Field Diary

Inspired by the field diaries found on the author’s website, the students sought to recreate a field diary from scratch. Using materials such as felt, twine, cartridge paper, tea for dyeing and cartridge paper, the group wrote entries and provided hand drawn imagery as a response to the practices used by the author.

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Flowers galore

The Keepers Krew AKA Years 5 and 6 Book Club, were inspired by shortlisted text, ‘Flora: Australia’s Most Curious Plants’. They sourced a variety of different flowers and used the Cricut cutting machine to cut these out then rolled and/or glued them together to make bunches of pretty little flowers. Their efforts continue throughout the

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Flora

The students decided that they enjoyed the layout and information in Flora. They liked looking at all the different Australian natives and spotting them around their house. Through discussions they enjoyed looking at the pictures, talking about the writing and the information that the book contained. Through their own thoughts they created a poster. The

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