2023 CBCA Picture Book of the Year description
Zuri, Abigail, Chrysten and Hillary worked together during weekends and at lunchtimes to create this stunning poster related to the book ‘Paper Flower Girl’. The girls would like to say THANK YOU to their art teacher, Ms Gibson, for helping them to create this poster.
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Jessie reimagined the cover of Bowerbird Blues using her artistic skills to portray the birds on the cover so realistically.
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Isabella created a beautiful response to Paper flower girl using origami flowers decorating a painted girl.
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This Year 5 trio responded to Bowerbird Blues written by Aura Parker by creating a hand modelled three-dimensional scene and a hand drawn work on canvas. Their scene shows the ending of the story, going beyond it as they hatch two new chicks, highlighting the importance of family.
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We decided to paint a house, using an old cardboard box. We made the moon to go behind it and created a positive and negative image of the main character turning into a wolf. After talking about the animals we’d like to be, we put ourselves into the picture. Molly, Lucy, Karliah
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Our pencil sketch shows the life of the famous soccer player, Ronaldo. We tried to show that he got better as the years passed and he got older. Our main message is to follow your dreams. Levi and James
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In my response, I wanted to create a bird who was a side character. I wanted to make it bright so that it didn’t just fall into the background like some of the tweets in the book. The photos I created showed what the bird had been doing. Willow I tried to remake the front
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I chose the book because it shows how you can dream and do anything you want to do. If you like something and someone puts you down, just ignore them. I love how it shows the adventures of the person who wants to be a horse. Saskiah
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As a class, we brainstormed thoughts about the book Bowerbird Blues and each student added a phrase to describe the bowerbird and his dilemma.
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Chanelle has created a fantastic diorama in response to the book Bowerbird Blues. She has included a list of things for you to find … can you find them all?
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Matea has combine 2 books in this gorgeous diorama, Every Night At Midnight and Bowerbird Blues.
Every Night At Midnight & Bowerbird Blues Diorama – Matea yr 5 Read More »
Our Year 3 and 4 students have been exploring the illustrations in ‘That Bird has Arms!’ by Kate and Jol Temple. We loved having fun creating our own birds with arms using recycled magazines, photocopies of birds and donated scrapbooking card. They all agree this book gave the biggest laughs, as well as lots of
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