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Review of the Short –List Plus What’s Hot…. September 2014. Paul Macdonald M Ed B Ed The Children’s Bookshop Beecroft staff@thechildrensbookshop.com.au. “Reading for pleasure is the most important way to advance literacy attainment in children.” National Literacy Trust UK 2006.
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Review of the Short –List Plus What’s Hot….September 2014 Paul Macdonald M Ed B Ed The Children’s Bookshop Beecroft staff@thechildrensbookshop.com.au
“Reading for pleasure is the most important way to advance literacy attainment in children.” National Literacy Trust UK 2006
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2015 Children’s Book Week Theme – Books light up our world
Picture Books “Tan's open-ended tales invariably suggest possibilities beyond the frame, creating an imaginative space for readers to inhabit the stories… The result is an ambiguous, lively tension between word and image, where neither clarifies the other, fuelling unexpected associations. Reading too much into a Shaun Tan book is a necessary good” CefnRidout, The Australian “Bob Graham celebrates a whole world-vision in a single moment, encouraging readers to stop, observe, and savor the world around them…”Good Reads
“Children who know adults who read for pleasure take it for granted thatreading is a valuable and worthwhile activity” (Csikszentmihalyi, 1991)
Paul Macdonald M Ed B Ed The Children’s Bookshop Beecroft staff@thechildrensbookshop.com.au