2023 CBCA Picture Book of the Year description
That Bird has Arms, Year 6, East Marden Primary School This year, Year 6 students have taken part in an exciting Shadow Judging project. We selected the 2024 Picture Book of the Year category from the six shortlisted books for the Children’s Book Council of Australia awards. After reading all six shortlisted books, each student […]
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Paper Flower Girl, Year 6, East Marden Primary School This year, Year 6 students have taken part in an exciting Shadow Judging project. We selected the 2024 Picture Book of the Year category from the six shortlisted books for the Children’s Book Council of Australia awards. After reading all six shortlisted books, each student chose
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If I was a Horse, Year 6, East Marden Primary School This year, Year 6 students have taken part in an exciting Shadow Judging project. We selected the 2024 Picture Book of the Year category from the six shortlisted books for the Children’s Book Council of Australia awards. After reading all six shortlisted books, each
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Bowerbird Blue Creative Responses. Year 6, East Marden Primary School This year, Year 6 students have taken part in an exciting Shadow Judging project. We selected the 2024 Picture Book of the Year category from the six shortlisted books for the Children’s Book Council of Australia awards. After reading all six shortlisted books, each student
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Our year 6 class read all of the book titles listed and each student chose a book they felt best connected with them. Their creative responses displayed a variety of skills and students were highly engaged in the process.
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Our Year 4 group’s creative response is based on the endpapers of the book ‘If I Was A Horse’. They chose an animal (or character!) and created their own awesome drawings, showing a simple drawing, a more detailed drawing and finishing up with their best drawing!
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The year 5 group at Emmaus worked as a group to create this fabulous diorama series honouring all of the shortlisted books in the Picture Book of the Year category. On the top of each box, they wrote what they felt was the main message in each book.
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The year 6s at Emmaus used watercolour paints to create this stunning poster depicting the message they found in the book ‘Timeless’.
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I tried to make my art work 3D so it would pop from the page and stand out to people. The girl made paper flowers for the giant, but she didn’t stick to the giant’s ideas. Instead she followed her own path. Ella I tried to redesign the cover in my response. Perhaps I should
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This Year 5 duo responded to Every Night at Midnight written by Peter Cheong. They created hand-drawn copies of each character, very carefully traced each of their shadows onto black card, then symmetrically placed them where their shadows would lie. They wanted to represent the relationship between the character and their shadow and day and
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This Year 5 duo responded to Timeless written by Kelly Canby by recreating the front cover on canvas. They found the front cover so bright, colourful and artistic that it inspired them to copy it.
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This Year 5 trio responded to Paper-Flower Girl written by Margrete Lamond and Mateja Jager by crafting a three-dimensional Pop-up art piece. They wanted to showcase how strongly the paper flowers stood out to them throughout the story, therefore wanting to make them stand out (literally) in their art piece.
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