WA Branch Newsletter Issue #2 April 2017 Page 1

The Newsletter of

The Children’s Book Council of Australia

WA Branch (Inc.)

PO Box 473, West Perth WA 6872 Email: wa@cbca.org.au No. 2 April 2017

Editor: Jan Nicholls Email: janbooks@bigfoot.com.au

WHAT’S IN THIS ISSUE?

2017 Executive & Committee

CBCA Book of the Year Notables

and Short List

A Night with our Stars report

National Simultaneous Storytime

Book launches

Paper Bird Hot Desk Fellowship

Spotlight on SCBWI

Between the Lines Litfest

and much more...

Committee Meetings are held at 7pm on the third Wednesday of every month at Oasis Lotteries House, 37 Hampden Road,

Nedlands. All welcome to attend.

Newsletter deadlines for 2017: Issue 3: Friday 2 June, Issue 4: Friday 1 September, Issue 5: Friday 3 November

Please email items of interest to the Editor janbooks@bigfoot.com.au NEW EDITOR NEEDED! Apply within!

2017 Executive: Elizabeth Allen, Secretary; Jan Nicholls, President; Suzanne Pearse, Treasurer and Felicia Harris, Vice President

Inset: WA Board Representative, Angela Briant

Margaret Hamilton cutting her

retirement cake after 56 years of

service to CBCA

Shortlisted titles by WA creators

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From the President

The WA Branch AGM was held on Wednesday 5 April at Penrhos College. Vice President, Felicia Harris chaired the meeting, formal business was kept to a brief minimum. Thanks were recorded to Sue Stopher, Immediate Past President, retiring WA Board Representative, Steve Halbert and to long-serving members Eve Morrissey and Dominique Ward who are taking a break from the committee in 2017.

The new Executive was elected, continuing committee members were thanked for their ongoing support and two new committee members were welcomed—Kelly Canby and Jodie Davidson.

Jennifer Jackson from Paper Bird Books was a warm and engaging guest speaker. Audience members were fascinated to see a slim blue volume Inside Perth’s Bookshops that gave us a glimpse into the history and

development of specialist and independent bookshops in Perth

including Haddons, and were delighted to hear that the Barwell family tradition continues with Muriel’s daughter, Jane, who is heavily involved with children’s books and running Paper Bird story time sessions. Jen’s passion for a ‘space dedicated to kids and not just the corner of a regular bookshop’ is infectious and one has to admire her drive, vision and sense of community in aiming to keep books for children relevant and accessible.

On April 6-7 President Jan Nicholls and Independent Board Director Angela Briant attended the National CBCA AGM and Board Meeting in Melbourne. This was an ideal opportunity to meet other Branch Presidents face to face and discuss items of interest to our respective branches. At the ensuing April committee meeting Angela was unanimously elected as our WA Branch Board Representative.

After 56 years of service to the CBCA the seemingly indefatigable Margaret Hamilton has resigned from her role as Deputy Chair of the Board and from the Awards Foundation but will retain a connection by joining the Committee of Responsible Persons. Margot Hillel, Board Chair, presented Margaret with a beautiful hand-made glass bowl. On behalf of the WA Branch I commend Margaret for her tireless efforts and thank her for so many years of dedicated service. Without Margaret (and June

Smith) the Awards Foundation, which funds the Book of the Year Awards would not exist. The AF fund currently stands at $1, 172, 000 and Margaret would dearly love it to reach $2 million by the end of 2017. To donate please refer to the last page of this newsletter or to the CBCA website. Thank you for electing me WA Branch President. It is an honour and privilege. I look forward to working with the Committee as we continue to run our signature events, support and promote our amazingly talented creators in WA and strengthen our partnerships with similar groups such as SCBWI raising community awareness of who we are and the important role books play in the lives of our children. I look forward to meeting you soon at a future WA Branch event. Jan Nicholls

2017 WA Branch Committee

EXECUTIVE

President Jan Nicholls

Vice President Felicia Harris

Secretary Elizabeth Allen

Treasurer Suzanne Pearse

Immediate Past President Sue Stopher

Ex officio Chloe Mauger

WA Board Representative Angela Briant

COMMITTEE

Nola Allen

Joanna Andrew

Angela Briant

Kelly Canby

Sharon Coppin

Dee Cunninghame

Jodie Davidson

Mary Gimondo

Trish Montgomery

Karina Oliver

Aniek Ragan

Denise Robins

Gail Spiers

Sally Woffenden

Jo Andrew, Nola Allen, Felicia Harris and Kelly Canby

Elizabeth Allen, Myrtle Spiers and Gay Tierney

Rebecca Newman, Jenni Woodroffe and Chloe Mauger

President, Jan Nicholls and Jen Jackson

Margot Hillel and Margaret Hamilton

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CBCA Book of the Year Notables and Short List 2017

The announcement of the Notables in late February, a whole month before the Short List, is a wonderful new initiative which

allows for greater recognition and celebration of the depth of talent in the Australian children’s literature community. Short

lists by their very nature are limited and inevitably some very worthy titles miss out by the tiniest of margins. The Notables list

goes some way towards recognising this dilemma and redressing the situation. Here at the WA Branch

we are particularly proud of our WA authors and illustrators featured in this list as well as our local

publishers Fremantle Press and Magabala Books in Broome.

Older Readers: Meg Caddy and Dianne Touchell

Younger Readers: Lee Battersby, Paula Hayes and Dianne Wolfer

Early Childhood: Davina Bell, Sally Morgan, Ambelin Kwaymullina, Kylie Howarth and Danny Parker

Picture Books: Danny Parker, Davina Bell, Karen Blair, Raewyn Caisley, Gabriel Evans, Chris Nixon, Chris Owen, Danny Parker and Mel Tregonning

Information Books: Mark Greenwood

You can find the full Notables list plus cover images of the books and publishing details here.

https://cbca.org.au/notables-2017

WA is represented in the Short List this year by Waer by Meg Caddy in the Older Readers category;

Chip by Kylie Howarth in the Early Childhood category; Magabala Books with Mrs Whitlam by Bruce

Pascoe in the Younger Readers category and Small Things by Mel Tregonning in the Crichton Award for

new illustrators. The full lists are available at the following links.

https://cbca.org.au/short-list-2017

https://cbca.org.au/crichton-award-2017

We wish all candidates the very best of luck and eagerly await the

announcement of the winners at the 71st CBCA Awards Presentation

which will be held in Hobart on Friday 18 August.

The committee is considering the implications of the move to the new awards judging structure where judges are assigned a

particular category rather than reading all categories. Our WA Judges for 2017-18, Ruth Campbell-Hicks and Margaret Merga,

are reading the Early Childhood and Older Readers categories respectively.

We are still determining the form our traditional Judges’ Talks will now take and hope to have information out to members

soon. Visual presentations in the form of video clips and PowerPoint slideshows will be provided by the current judges and will

be incorporated into our program of events. As always we will endeavour to select presentation venues both north and south

of the river in the metropolitan area and in regional areas wherever possible.

Please check our website for up-to-date news plus our WA Branch Facebook page. We will also post information on WASLANet

and WAIN as it becomes available.

Judges’ Talks

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A Night With Our Stars

An enthusiastic audience of nearly 200 supporters gathered at the Bendat Parent & Community Centre on 2 March for our 14th ANWOS. The spacious venue offered comfortable seating, excellent sound and vision of the presenters, a display area to peruse and buy books plus a room for book-signings and space to network while enjoying the delicious refreshments. Many starry creators, both familiar and new, were spotted mingling in the crowd.

President, Sue Stopher briefly welcomed everyone before Jan Nicholls took charge as MC for the evening. 2016 was such a bumper year for children’s publishing in WA that not all those eligible could be included in the program. 22 presenters were invited to participate – 7 for the first time (including Lee Battersby, Violet Tregonning, Meg Caddy and Paula Hayes). We trialled a new ‘Three in One’ segment for first-timers Nadia King, Monique Mulligan and Teena Raffa-Mulligan who were delighted to have their say, no matter how brief. More than half the speakers were represented in the ‘long-list’ of the Notables, which added an extra festive air to the evening.

It is always impressive to hear and see what these talented people can do in their allotted three minutes and we listened to many insightful, poignant, funny and exciting presentations, given so generously by our guests, who had come from as far afield as Albany, Bridgetown and Dalyellup. Special mention goes to Violet Tregonning for bravely agreeing to speak on her late sister Mel’s behalf about the luminous Small Things and on a lighter note, Kylie Howarth for involving everyone in some speed drawing of Chip the seagull. Other highlights included Sally Murphy reminding us that books are for readers, not boys or girls; Mark Greenwood insisting that Boomerang and Bat ‘is not a cricket book’ but about recognising stories that need to be told and Frané Lessac revealing that zebra finches sing in their dreams. Chris Owen expressed his passion for reading aloud with rhyme and rhythm and ‘big vocabulary’ while Norman Jorgensen presented his tale with bold and rollicking humour. James Foley explained that inwardly he sees his books as films, thus comic books fit his personal style, while Danny Parker reminded us that friendships can grow where words build bridges.

We acknowledge the support of our sponsors, Fremantle Press and booksellers Westbooks who offered a generous 15% discount for pre-purchases and whose busy staff brought a plentiful supply of the books for eager audience members to buy and have signed. Raffle prizes were won by Sandi Parsons, Irene King and Lorrie Finlay and the $450 raised will go to support children in crisis. Thanks to the WA Branch Committee for their wonderful support in various forms on the evening and to Convenor Joanna Andrew for bringing it all together.

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Book Discussion Group

CBCA WA Branch Membership

St Stephen’s students take on a Book Week Design Project

On Wednesday 26 April Gail Spiers hosted an animated meeting discussing the titles on

the 2017 Book of the Year Short List. Members selected their favourite titles to review

and outlined the merits and strengths of each one. We eagerly anticipate the

announcement of the winners in August. Next month we revert to the usual format of

discussing one title per meeting. Everyone is welcome to attend.

24 May Our Chemical Hearts by Krystal Sutherland Penguin Random House

28 June Everything is Changed by Nova Weetman Penguin Random House

26 July The Road to Winter by Mark Smith Text Publishing

23 Aug The Blue Cat by Ursula Dubosarsky Allen & Unwin

Welcome to the following new members. We look

forward to meeting you at WA Branch events and hope

you will join our Facebook page and like and comment

on our posts.

We recently moved to a new database so if there are

any members who have renewed but not yet received a

receipt please contact Sharon, our Membership Officer:

cyrilina@iinet.net.au

Please keep a record of your WA Branch Membership

Number as it entitles you to a discount on CBCA Book

Week merchandise and a minimum 10% discount on

book purchases from our WA Branch supporting

bookstores.

These stores are listed on our website and on Page 15 of

this newsletter. Members are also eligible for a

discounted rate at WA Branch events such as ANWOS,

the Judges’ Talks and the Book Week Dinner.

https://www.facebook.com/groups/111888132180231/

As a member of the Book Week dinner committee my creative skills are often challenged to make interesting table decorations. This year I have some help from the year 9 Design students from St Stephen’s School in Duncraig. As part of a class project each student will create a 3D model of the theme Escape to Everywhere in the style of an illustrator featured in the 2017 Notables list. This model will be a focus for the table decorations.

The students participated in an illustration workshop with Samantha Hughes at Paper Bird Books in March and with her advice in mind, they were ready to meet with me (as the project client) to gain some background into the history of CBCA WA Branch and the Book of the Year awards. I used copies of the Notables books to explain the award process and discussed how their models would be used as table decorations and may be

displayed in libraries, classrooms or bookstores during Book Week. Armed with a wealth of information, the students were ready to move to the next stage of their designs. I look forward to meeting with them in the next few weeks to discover what they have created. Thanks to Bronwyn Schultz and Dee Cunninghame for involving CBCA WA in this exciting design project.

Denise Robins

Jodie Davidson

Janine Hancock Gosnells PS

Irene King

Gemma Lyon SLWA (Better Beginnings)

Cherie O'Callaghan Australind PS

Helen Parsons Cranbrook Public Library

Peta Ramage

Jane Stanton

Michelle Waghorn

Sharon Williams

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Fremantle Press Breakfast at PWF

In Memoriam

You can read obituaries at the following links.

Paula Fox https://www.nytimes.com/2017/03/03/books/paula-fox-dead.html?_r=0

Murray Ball http://www.smh.com.au/comment/obituaries/murray-ball-creator-of-footrot-flats-20170314-guxjzg.html

Fremantle Press hosted their own mini version of ANWOS at the Perth Writers Festival with a breakfast function where

authors briefly outlined their new releases for 2017. There are some exciting titles to watch out for including the following:

The Spectacular Spencer Gray Deb Fitzpatrick

Colour Me Moira Court and Ezekiel Kwaymullina

Cyclones and Shadows Pat, Laura and Sabrina Dudgeon and Darlene Oxenham

One Thousand Trees Kyle Hughes-Odgers

To the Lighthouse Cristy Burne

Other new titles from WA creators include:

Mrs White and the Red Desert, Josie Boyle, illust. Maggie Prewett, Magabala Books

Rose Raventhorpe Investigates: Black Cat and Butler, Janine Beacham, Hachette

Fergus the Farting Dragon, Monique Mulligan, illust. Veronica Rooke, Serenity Press

Nanna’s Button Tin, Dianne Wolfer, illust. Heather Potter, Walker Books

Jane Fraser, Chris Owen and Deb Fitzpatrick

Norman Jorgensen, Chris Owen, James Foley, Sally Murphy,

Brendan Ritchie, Paula Hayes and Jen Banyard

Brendan Ritchie, Megan Sullivan

and Cristy Burne Nigel Gray and Norman Jorgensen

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Recent Book Launches

In launching Me and You written by Deborah Kelly and illustrated by Karen Blair in the wonderful exhibition space upstairs at Paper Bird Books & Arts on Sunday 12 March artist-in-residence Briony Stewart, described the award-winning illustrator as one of Western Australia’s rising young stars stating that “Karen’s illustrations are...a series of snapshots of the disordered, messy and busy goings-on of family life...the reader can feel the relationships between the people in the book.”

Karen then spoke of the moment she first read Deborah’s “delicious and poetic words” and fell in love. Initially, Karen aimed to keep it simple, starting with only two characters but the love expanded and she drew inspiration from her immediate family and extended tribe - including the cat! Inspiration for the main character took the form of her young daughter, Alice, who charmed the launch crowd with knock-knock jokes and a warm speech echoing the theme of the book - ‘Even people we don’t know - you’re welcome too!’ Published by Penguin Random House, Me and You is a gentle reminder that life need not be so complicated; that we need to live in the present moment where we can enjoy the simple pleasures of life. As Briony said in launching it, “This is a book to be savoured.” For teachers, Me and You is a multimodal text that can be read on three levels: written, visual and gestural. The written text is poetic and whimsical with alliterative elements. The visual text uses watercolour with the raw, honest line work showing the emotions of each character, adding depth and meaning to the words; the gestural text (postures of each character) invites readers to share the pure enjoyment of movement - from ‘castle stomping’ to the thrilling feeling one gets from swinging ‘toes-pointing-to-the-sky.’ Teachers’ notes and other activities can be found on Karen’s website. http://www.karenblair.com.au/ Rebecca Palmer

Based on a Hans Christian Andersen tale about the dangers of rumours, It’s Quite True! retold by Lis Mathiasen (right) and illustrated by Judith Price (left) was launched by Norman Jorgensen at Paper Bird on Saturday 25 February.

Author Kevin Price signing copies of Kumakana at the launch at Northside Books on 7 March.

Zany Circus: Paradox by Nanci

Nott and Xanthe Turner,

published by Aulexic Press

was released at a circus-

themed launch on 15 April.

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At Astrofest at Curtin Stadium on Saturday 18 March hundreds of fans counted down the launch to The Cosmic Adventures of Alice & Bob. Written by Cristy Burne and illustrated by Aska Superska, the pair entertained the large crowd with a lively and energetic role play complete with sound effects and volunteer actor dads nominated from children in the crowd. Curtin University's Dr Wiebke Ebeling (and editor-in-chief of the book) also had a hand in entertaining the crowd. Published by CAASTRO, free class sets of this book were offered to WA schools.

Photo credit: Denis Knight

Julia Lawrinson’s latest YA novel Before you Forget, published by Penguin Books, was launched by Fremantle Tennis Club President and family friend Laurie Apps, at The Literature Centre on 16 February. Surrounded by friends, family and colleagues Julia and her daughter Annie, shared the motivation for the book - the emotional story of a family trying to come to terms with a beloved husband and father’s slide into early-onset Alzheimer’s disease. A poignant short film, beautifully made by Kori Reay-Mackey, and Annie’s powerful art work complemented the moving speeches. You can read Julia’s speech on her website here and view the video on YouTube at this link.

Kelly Canby

Recent Book Launches

Arrr! ‘Twas a fine morning on Sunday 19 March when Captain Jan the Red appeared at Fremantle Sailing Club to launch a book that’s guaranteed to shiver your timbers!

1, 2, Pirate Stew (Five Mile Press) is the third offering by Perth author-illustrator Kylie Howarth. Her first book Fish Jam was nominated for the CBCA Crichton Award for illustration and her second, Chip is on the 2017 CBCA Notables list. That sets the bar pretty high for book number three and 1, 2, Pirate Stew doesn’t disappoint. As a counting, rhyming picture book, it even features a terrific rhyme for the very tricky number twelve!

Attending land-lubbers laughed at clever pirate puns, munched on cupcakes and hunted for treasure before happily parting with their gold for a signed

copy of the book with its limited-edition pirate tote bag.

It seems they took the advice of Captain Jan when she said, “1, 2, what should you do? Read this book whatever you do! 3,4 then buy some more – for the kids in your life and those next door!”

Renae Hayward

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Recent Book Launches

At the launch of their picture book Dog Lost, written by Jan Ramage, at The Literature Centre on 6 April illustrator Brian Simmonds made it all sound so easy. He cited a teacher who forty-odd years ago said: ‘All you have to do is put the right colour in the right place.’ Simmonds laughed, ‘What could go wrong?’ This is his third book and Jan Ramage’s fifth.

Dog Lost tells the story of a cattle dog – Dog – swept away by torrential rain in wild country with the illustrations suggesting it is WA’s northwest. Lesley Reece described Ramage’s prose as sparse, poetic and lyrical whereas Simmonds’ art, ‘picked up all the senses – the smells and feel of everything going on.’

Ramage said the book was a story of love, persistence, resilience and trust, ‘ about the persuasive belief that amazing things happen if one believes. It also honours dogs. Mankind owes so much to our faithful friend.’ In writing the story, she drew on a special memory, when as a child of twelve on her uncle’s station, she helped him drive cattle, on horseback, from one paddock to the next.

It was Ramage who, after falling in love with his pictorial study River (Fremantle Press), suggested to her publisher, Windy Hollow Books, that Simmonds had the right touch for Dog Lost.

Simmonds decides what to draw by skim reading and seeing what images jump out at him. ‘It’s a question of making yourself available. Then lightning happens. The word magic often bobs up,’ he said. ‘It may be magic. It’s just instinctive, intuitive.’ All illustrations are in his signature pastels, over charcoal. They are rich, dynamic and tender. ‘I drew the charcoal pictures first, then coloured them in.’ All the colours appear to be in the right places – his old teacher would have been proud!

Jen Banyard

Jan Ramage and Brian Simmonds

CBCA Book Week Merchandise

The whimsical images by multi award-winning illustrator Freya Blackwood will inspire you to Escape to Everywhere for CBCA Book Week this year. Enhance your library or classroom and celebrate Book Week in style with the delightful range of merchandise on offer. Order Forms with all the details will be despatched early in term two, with a closing date of 3 June for their return. WA Branch members are eligible for discount on purchases. For further information check out the WA Branch directly www.cbca.org.au and for specific queries contact wa.merchandise@cbca.org.au

Trish Montgomery Merchandise Manager

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Between the Lines—Busselton Literature Festival

Norman Jorgensen, Beth Herbert, Sally Murphy, Mark Greenwood, James Foley and Jen Banyard

After the success of Seven Rooms, Seven Stories the dynamic

trio of Beth Herbert (Dymocks Busselton), Jeanette

Sangmeister and Tamara Clark McSevich (St Mary MacKillop

College) combined their talents once again to organise an

even bigger event this year. Expanded to two full days,

Between the Lines had a secondary focus on Thursday with a

primary focus on Friday. Students who attended from many

schools in the district were captive and captivated audiences

for the wonderful range of authors and illustrators on the

program. A further treat was the opportunity to bring family

members to meet the creators and have books signed

outside the Dymocks Busselton store on Saturday morning.

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Paper Bird Hot Desk Fellowship

The WA Branch of CBCA is proud to partner with SCBWI Australia West and the City of Fremantle Library to support

the Hot Desk Fellowship program (PBF), a wonderful new initiative from Paper Bird Books & Arts owner, Jennifer

Jackson. Launched on the eve of Paper Bird’s first anniversary in February 2017 the Hot Desk Fellowship aims to

promote Western Australian children’s writers and illustrators by offering them the opportunity to work in a

dedicated workspace two days per week, for a 3 month period. Four fellowships will be offered each year.

Fellows will enjoy working in a large, light-filled heritage studio behind a thriving, specialist children’s bookshop and

writers/arts centre, with access to networking and support from the other permanent residents and literary visitors

of Paper Bird. As part of the fellowship writers and illustrators will have the opportunity to present their work to

the public in Meet the writer/illustrator sessions to which CBCA WA Branch members will be invited. Expressions of

interest from creators are invited by email to hello@paperbird.com.au using the subject title ‘PBF expression of

interest’.

Briony Stewart, the inaugural recipient of the PBF, very generously shared her talents, work practices and practical

tips at the Meet the Author session held at Paper Bird on Saturday afternoon, 18 March. Briony is currently working

on the illustrations for a new picture book called The Lion in our Living Room written by Emma Middleton, to be

published by Affirm Press later this year.

Briony Stewart with Hot Desk Fellowship partners L-R Margaret Kett, James Foley, Aniek Ragan, Jan Nicholls and Jen Jackson

The WA Branch congratulates Catherine Carvell on

being awarded the Hot Desk Fellowship as the

resident writer for April-July at Paper Bird Books &

Arts. Catherine will be working on a follow-up to her

successful first book, Darcy Moon and the Deep-fried

Frogs published by Fremantle Press.

Having recently relocated from Singapore, found a

new house and settled the children into new schools

Catherine says, “The opportunity to put structure

around my creative time, and to do it in such a

nurturing and inspiring space as Paper Bird is such a

boost for me.”

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Spotlight on the Society of Children’s Book Writers and Illustrators (SCBWI)

How many of these authors and illustrators do you recognise? Those of you who were at ANWOS this year would know that the

pool of talent in WA is now so deep that we have more eligible contenders than we can possibly feature in any one event!

Here's part of the reason. This is a photo I took at the SCBWI meeting at Perth Writers Festival earlier this year. There are 32

adults in this photo but they represent only 22% of the current SCBWI Australia West group membership - a figure which bodes

incredibly well for the future of quality children's literature in WA. Naturally not everyone in the group is published as yet but

there are some dynamic and talented creators emerging so watch this space and remember - you heard it here first!

We are delighted to have two SCBWI members—Kelly Canby and Jodie Davidson—join the WA Branch committee at the recent

AGM and we look forward to forging even stronger links between our two organisations. Perhaps we can start by holding some

informal get-togethers. Watch out for further information via our respective Facebook pages, websites and newsletters.

For those of you aspiring to write and/or illustrate your own children’s book SCBWI is an excellent group to join. Whether you

are already published or a complete novice, everyone is welcome. Members are very generous and supportive with their

advice. James Foley (The Last Viking/In the Lion/My Dead Bunny/Brobot) is the Regional Advisor for SCBWI Australia West and

you can find more details on their website. https://australiawest.scbwi.org/

National Simultaneous Storytime is held annually by the Australian Library and

Information Association. Every year a picture book, written and illustrated by

an Australian author and illustrator is read simultaneously in libraries, schools, pre-

schools, childcare centres, family homes, bookshops and many other places around the

country.

This year NSS takes place on Wednesday 24 May at 11am (AEST) and you can join the fun

by sharing The Cow Tripped Over the Moon written by Tony Wilson, illustrated by Laura

Wood and published by Scholastic Australia. The book was shortlisted in the Early

Childhood category and named as an Honour Book in the CBCA Book of the Year awards in 2016.

Find out more information at this link https://www.alia.org.au/nss

National Simultaneous Storytime 2017

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Take Me to Your Reader!

Thanks to all the contributors to this

page celebrating the joys of reading

and being immersed in a good book.

Keep the photos coming!

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Important Dates for your Diary

APRIL/MAY/JUNE/JULY

Wednesday 26 April

Book Discussion Group

The CBCA Book of the Year Short List

Contact Gail Spiers gailspiers@iinet.net.au

April 28—May 14 The Lighthouse Girl by Hellie Turner based on the novels by Dianne Wolfer

http://www.bsstc.com.au/season-2017/the-lighthouse-girl/

Saturday 29 April 3-5pm Fremantle Press Great Big Footy Readhttps://www.eventbrite.com.au/e/

fremantle-press-great-big-footy-read-tickets-32077805580?ref=ebtn

Wednesday 24 May

Book Discussion Group

Our Chemical Hearts by Krystal Sutherland

Contact Gail Spiers gailspiers@iinet.net.au

Friday & Saturday 2-3 June Reading Matters,

Melbourne

https://www.slv.vic.gov.au/live-learn/courses-librarians-and-teachers/reading

-matters

Saturday 3 June Closing date for WA Branch merchandise orders

Friday 9 June Closing date for MYOSB entries

Saturday 10 June MYOSB sort

Sunday 18 June Merchandise Packing Day—volunteers welcome. Contact Trish Montgomery

wa.merchandise@cbca.org.au if you can help

Wednesday 28 June

Book Discussion Group

Everything is Changed by Nova Weetman

Contact Gail Spiers gailspiers@iinet.net.au

Monday 17 July Mandurah Schools Network Conference

Wednesday 26 July

Book Discussion Group

The Road to Winter by Mark Smith

Contact Gail Spiers gailspiers@iinet.net.au

Friday 18 August WA Branch CBCA Book Week Opening and Dinner, Ambrose Room, Wembley

Golf Course. Guest speaker: Danny Parker. Further details TBA.

AUGUST 18

AUGUST 19-26

CBCA Book of the Year Announcement—Hobart, Tasmania

CBCA BOOK WEEK 2017

Theme: Escape to Everywhere

Competition News

Congratulations to Ruth Nitschke whose name was

drawn as the winner of the February competition. Ruth

correctly answered that Gregory Rogers was the latest

illustrator to be listed in memoriam in the Awards Donor

List.

To be in the running for the April competition prize of a

$25 gift voucher from one of our wonderful WA Branch

supporting bookstores tell us in no more than 50 words

which children’s book you would choose to Escape to

Everywhere in Book Week. Closing date for entries is

Friday 2 June. Send your entries to:

janbooks@bigfoot.com.au

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WA Branch Supporting Book Stores and the CBCA Awards Foundation

Beaufort Street Books

567 Beaufort Street Mt Lawley WA 6050

T: (08) 6142 7996

Child Education Services

96 Royal Street, East Perth WA 6004

T: (08) 9225 6516

Dymocks Busselton

48 Prince Street, Busselton WA 6280

T: (08) 9754 4410

Millpoint Caffe Bookshop

254 Mill Point Road South Perth WA 6151

T: (08) 9367 4567

Paper Bird Children’s Books & Arts

42 Henry St Fremantle WA 6160

T: (08) 9430 7038

Westbooks Children's Book Centre

119 Burswood Road, Burswood WA 6100

T: (08) 9361 4211

Proudly Funding Prizes for the Children’s Book of the Year Awards

Benefactors:

Scholastic Australia

Allen & Unwin

Laurie Copping OAM (in memoriam)

Thyne Reid Trust No. 1

Major Donors:

Australia Post

Jill Bruce

Sandy Campbell

CBCA NSW Branch

Jean Chapman (in memoriam)

Era Publications

Max Fatchen (in memoriam)

Five Mile Press

Libby Gleeson AM

Bob Graham

Hachette Children’s Books Australia

Hardie Grant Egmont

HarperCollinsPublishers Australia

Ipswich District Teacher-Librarians’ Network

The James N Kirby Foundation

Kinross-Wolaroi School

Koala Books

The Library Board of Queensland

Beryl Moncrieff Matthews (in memoriam)

Jill Midolo (in memoriam)

Angela Namoi

The Northern Territory Government

Jan Ormerod (in memoriam)

Parents & Boys of Sydney Grammar Edgecliff Prep School

Penguin Books Australia

Eve Pownall (in memoriam)

Random House Australia

Marion E Robertson (in memoriam)

Emily Rodda (Jennifer Rowe)

Gregory Rogers (in memoriam)

Gillian Rubinstein

Maurice Saxby AM

SA Dept of the Arts & Cultural Development

Cathie Tasker

University of Queensland Press

Julie Vivas

Walker Books Australia

Cassandra Weddell, Qld (in memoriam)

Margaret Wild

Maisie Williams, Garah, NSW (in memoriam)

Sue Williams

Donations to the CBCA Awards Foundation are tax deductible and can be sent to:

PO Box 172, Blackheath NSW 2785.

Clockwise from top left: Beth at Dymocks Busselton, Child Education

Services, Paper Bird Books & Arts, Westbooks staff at ANWOS 2017,

Sarah at Beaufort Street Books, Millpoint Bookcaffé