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CrypticJi clues Name the shortlisted books these clues lead you to
This one is a bit of a puzzle

A very strange bird
Let’s go shopping
Watch out, it will get you
Tall and short friends
In the beginning life was perfect
Nearly from the national anthem
An old, deserted house
A knitting penguin
A story of enchantment
This is our path
Bonsai people
I am, you are ...
Nature in the city
Coming ready or not
Morning to night
Dandelion magic
Time to dress up for Book Week
Black birds and bog people
Friends make a bucket list
A small, clever dog with a phobia
Cherish the moments in between struggles
Shipwrecked animals
Life is more than a concrete floor
Alphabetical under the sea
Migration
You need to know this
Hidden away
Bird bullies
Untamed native animals
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Make a Mini Book
Instructions
Search inside the shortlisted books to find the facts and judge the books.
There are different styles of mini books but they all fold the same way.
To see a video showing how to fold the

mini books, and to print out a set of instructions,
use the links below:
Video Instructions
bit.ly/MBookVideo
How to Fold – PDF

bit.ly/FoldMBook
To Use the Mini Books for Early Childhood,

Picture Books and New Illustrator
1 Print one mini book per student.
Enlarge to A3 to create a bigger book.
For best result, print ‘Actual size’ – do not select ‘Fit on Paper’.
2 Students write their name on the mini book.
3 Print the instruction sheet.
4 Show the video.
5 Fold, cut and create the book. (Younger students may need more assistance).
• Show the covers of all books for one category.
• Children colour the dot for the cover of the book they think looks most appealing to them.
• Read the blurb on the back of each book.
• Children colour the dot for the blurb of the book they think sounds most appealing to them.
• As each book is read over a period of time, children rate each title 1–10.
• After all books have been read, look at cover, blurb and rating to try to predict which book might
be the winner.
To Use the Mini Books for Younger Reader and Eve Pownall Award Categories
⊲ Repeat actions 1–5 above.
• Discuss criteria for judging each category as listed on the mini book.
• Break class into six groups and give each group one title.
• Follow the directions on the mini book.
• Rotate titles around the groups during the allocated time to complete the mini book.

Colourful Characters
Based on Frank’s Red Hat by Sean E Avery
In a world where everything seems to be black and white, a little penguin is not afraid
to try new things and bring some colour to his community. Inspired by the double-
page spread where Frank carries a pile of hats in the most wonderful of colours,
make personalised gift tags to celebrate the uniqueness of the people around you.
Use the template to create some tags on card. On one side, write a kind word or
words to describe the personality of whoever you are gifting your creation to.
On the other side, decorate your tag with colourful paper, felt, bits of fabric and
small objects such as stickers, buttons, feathers and leaves.
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funn brav
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bubbly
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Home is Where the Heart is!
Based on My Strange Shrinking Parents by Zeno Sworder
In My Strange Shrinking Parents, Sworder makes

beautiful reference to the heart of a home, and how
over a life span this space changes as a family grows
and ages. He also brings to the fore the art of the
handmade, and how the act of hand-making and
gifting to others is deeply connected to the
caring heart. In this art activity,
these two significant threads are
explored by the making of a home
for someone you care about.
Design Brief
Home is a place that is a
foundation for love, warmth
and happy memories. Make a
little house. Using the blackline
master as a starting point,
design and craft a home for a
very special person in your life.
Give the home to them, along
with a card of care that states:
M a te ri a ls
• Photocopy of blackline
master of house, upper
floor and roof on to
300gsm white cardboard
• Black pen – fine-tipped
and waterproof
• Watercolour paints
• Watercolour brush
• Water pot
• Scissors
• Tape
• Glue stick
• Cartridge paper

Based on My Strange Shrinking Parents by Zeno Sworder
How to Make
1. Brainstorm the key features of a
home that connects to caring for
your special person.
2. This house needs to be made in 2D
and 3D. Look at the template and
identify the spaces on which you can
create. Identify the ground and upper floor levels, windows,
door locations and roof.
3. Draw on a piece of cartridge paper a house plan with
details of each room that you will make, including
3D pop-up features.
4. Use a fine-tipped black pen to add details to the rooms,
then add colour using watercolour paints.
5. Repeat this process for the roof and upper floor templates.
6. Cut, fold and assemble the house and secure with tape. Fold
the flaps of the upper floor and attach to each wall to form
the upper floor of the house.
7. Cut, fold and assemble the roof and attach it to the outside
wall of the house.
8. Use off-cuts of cardboard to create small 3D pop-ups that
include a tab for attachment. Draw with black fine-tipped pen.
Colour using watercolours and then cut out. Fold the tab,
glue to the structure and reinforce with sticky tape.
9. Present their house with a card titled Home is Where the Heart is!
Some Other Ideas

⊲ Use the same template but alter the materials to include collage, felt pens, and
coloured pencil.
⊲ Use photocopy box lids to create individual rooms. When complete, connect
each lid together to make towers of units. Add a roof for a class collaboration.
⊲ Look at doll houses for ideas.

Attach Upper
Floor to Wall
Attach Upper
Floor to Wall
Cut Line
Attach to wall
Fold Line
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Potato Print Wallpaper Based on Farmhouse by Sophie Blackall
Design a farmhouse and decorate it with

your own wallpaper using carved potatoes,
like the twelve children in the story did long
ago. Use a pre-carved potato supplied by
the teacher or make your own.
Materials
• Half a potato for carving and printing
(or a pre-carved potato)
• Acrylic paint
• Coloured marker pens
• Green A3 card for backing
• Black A4 card for house frame and white
for potato prints
• A4 paper for making the chain of children
• Corrugated or textured card for the roof
⊲ Carve the potato to leave a raised circle on the top, then use it to create the
flower head patterns for the wallpaper by dipping it in the paint and pressing it onto
the A4 card. Use a few different colours to make the wallpaper colourful. When
the paint dries, draw the leaves on with a marking pen. Using different coloured
marking pens, draw a spiral at the top of the circle to create the flower design.
⊲ Create a four-pane window using black A4 card. Mark it into four rectangles, leaving
a wide enough border for the frames. Cut out three of the rectangles for the
windows. On one bottom rectangle only cut three sides to make the door.
Design the front door on different coloured card, using a button for the door
handle, and create a keyhole. Glue onto the door. Cut a triangle from the corrugated
or textured card to make the roof, and a rectangle to make the chimney.
⊲ When your wallpaper is complete, paste it onto the green A3 backing card. Overlay
the window and door frame over the wallpaper. Glue the roof and chimney on top.
⊲ To make the paper chain of children, fold a strip of paper back and forth like a
concertina. Draw a figure on the top layer with the hands reaching right to the
sides. Cut out the figure but be careful not to cut around the hands or the children
will not be joined together. Using the coloured markers, colour in the children’s
clothes. Pose and arrange the children where you would like them placed.
⊲ Finally, use some of the card to create the cat that the children coloured long ago
as they decorated their walls, and then place it in one of the windows.

Yanay Daore!
Based on Our Dreaming by Kirli Saunders and Dub Leffler
Dub Leffler has walked the earth to see the plants and animals and then share his
observations with us though his art. He has used watercolour and coloured pencils as
his medium. On the double-page spread showing the echidnas and what is under the
earth, Dub has sprinkled salt on the wet watercolour paint to remove some of the
colour and create the blotchy effect. Discover your own place.
Go for a nature walk.

⊲ Take notice of the natural objects. Consider the different colours, textures
and sizes.
⊲ Collect your favourite object (but only those that have already fallen or are not
alive). Never take the last one. Leave enough for nature to replenish.
supplies.
Gather some art
• Pencils, pens, crayons, watercolour paint, food ink
• A4 paper
Practise drawing the object you collec

ted.
Fold your A4 paper into quarters.
⊲ In square one, draw your object without lifting the pencil off the page.
⊲ In square two, draw your object from a new perspective.
⊲ In square three, draw it again in pen.
⊲ In square four, experiment by adding thickness to some lines and shapes.
⊲ On a new A4 page, redraw your object adding texture into the shapes with
dots or cross-hatching.
at the end pages
Illustrate your final drawing. First look
s as inspiration,
where Dub has used a variety of medium
your teacher).
or use food or plant ink (prepared by
⊲ Pour 1/2 cup boiling water over 4 tea bags. Steep for about 15 minutes.
Squeeze as much tea (tannin) as possible from the teabags. Stir in 1 teaspoon
of gum arabic and mix until you have a consistent solution. Strain the ink so that
you are left with a thick paste and allow it to cool before bottling it.
⊲ Try some other foods e.g. coffee grounds, beetroot, onion, onion skins
• Another way to make food ‘ink’ – Mix 1 cup of distilled water, 1/2 tablespoon
of bicarbonate soda and 1 tablespoon of grated food.
• Other ideas for ink. bit.ly/Plant-Ink

New Pup
Based on Lionel and Me by Corinne Fenton and Tracie Grimwood
Write the missing word in the sentence.
Maverick was a big �� kennel

Lionel’s legs were so �� short

Maverick ate Lionel’s �� meal

The children went on long �� dog

Maverick was lonely monkey
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Lionel tore the arm off the �� outside

Maverick and Lionel slept in the walks
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In the book Lionel and Me, the children have drawn pictures of their pet to hang
on the wall. On another piece of paper, draw a portrait of your pet. If you don’t
have a pet, then draw your own picture of Lionel and Maverick.
Colour the finger puppets and cut them out.

Find a partner. Use the finger puppets to pretend you are Lionel or Maverick. If you
are Maverick, talk to Lionel and tell him how you are feeling about the things he does.
If you are Lionel, talk to Maverick and tell him what you are thinking and how you feel.

Huge, Gigantic, Humongous Based on Bev and Kev by Katrina Germein and Mandy Foot
End Pages
The end pages at the front of Bev and Kev show drawings of giraffes by different children.
Draw your own version of Bev on brown paper. You could create your own brown
paper with a water paint wash.
Cut out your picture and add it to a class mural of giraffes. You could also create
Kev and include him in the mural.
The end pages at the back of the book show other animals from the story and
include name labels. Another option is to add more animals from the story to your
mural and label them.
Find the words in this Very Big Puzzle
Solution: bit.ly/VeryBigHuge
COLOSSAL GARGANTUAN GIGANTIC GINORMOUS HUGE
HUMONGOUS IMMENSE LOFTY MASSIVE TALL TOWERING
M C N Y S U O M R O N I G
N C H O E G A R A N O N L A L T H L
I O I O S S T U Y I T I N N C O L S T O
G L T T L G O N S A E S T U R A M T O U N
L L M N H S L V O U A G A R T C O S T W I N I
E O U A G A S U O G N O M U H O S L A E A C A
S S E A G A U M O I N U A M I M L N G L R G T L
L L I R I N U O M L S T E U A U O R N O I G A G S
S O M T G T I T S G I L E T T S S S O T N O L I S
M G S N O S S H U G E E A N S N I C G A T N U
M N I M O T E C L I N U E L A I U O N T E I
I W G E R S A G G U N O R L G V L A S S
Y E N N T O E O R E V G O
T G E A E E F A C A M
O H O R R M N O S G T G I O G
E S I S G E M A O S T O Y L S N I
A G S A I T O H F C I A N M

Jigsaw Creator
Based on Jigsaw: A Puzzle in the Post by Bob Graham
In Jigsaw: A Puzzle in the Post by Bob Graham, the Kelly family work together
to make a puzzle of an African sunrise.
Instructions
⊲ Draw your own African sunrise or whatever drawing you would like.
⊲ Paint or colour in your picture.
⊲ Cut along the jigsaw piece lines.
* You can glue your picture on to cardboard first to make it stronger.

Random Acts of Kindness
Based on Jigsaw: A Puzzle in the Post by Bob Graham
In the book Jigsaw: A Puzzle in the Post, the Kelly family receive a jigsaw puzzle
from an anonymous sender. Have you ever received something kind from someone
you did not know? What is a random act of kindness? Have you ever given or received
a random act of kindness? As a class, make a list of random acts of kindness.
If you could give something to a stranger that they would appreciate, draw
(and write) what it would be on the parcel below. Write who it is to and design
a stamp for it. Display them in your library or classroom in a Random Acts of
Kindness display.
Write a kind note or card to someone. It may be for a person you don’t
talk to often. Tell them what you appreciate about them. Place your kind
note or card somewhere they can find it, or in a class-made post box!
Challenge yourself to do random acts of kindness as often as you can!

Sound Map
Based on Where the Lyrebird Lives by Vikki Conley and Max Hamilton
A rainforest is full of many magical sounds. Use the sounds the family heard while
searching for the lyrebird to create a sound map. Draw a picture to match each sound.
What sounds did you hear?

ip, chirp.
Wwww-h
a.
. Kaa-ka Shim
Koo-koo my, s
himm
y ... Hop
!
Clitter-clatter bridge.
Cheep-ity ch
eep.
Wisha-w
isha Tr
ees.
Tip-toe tip-toe...
Vikki Conley uses alliteration and onomatopoeia to bring the sounds of the
rainforest alive.
Alliteration is the repetition of the initial consonant sound of nearby words to inject
mood or emotion into writing. Onomatopoeia is the use or creation of a word that
imitates or suggests the sound it is describing.
Think about the sounds you hear around your school. Can you make a sound map to
guide someone on a journey through your school?

Rhyme Time Based on Snap! by Anna Walker
Did you know the green tree frog has four fingers and five toes, all with flat discs
to help them climb? They are nocturnal and eat insects and other small creatures.
What else do you know about these frogs?
Underneath each word, make a list of other words that rhyme.
drop fish snap snip bump
Find the frog by joining up the letters.
C
D
A
Z B
X
W Y
F E
U
V H
S
R G I
T
O L
N M
Q K J
P

Ant City Maze
Based on Naturopolis by Deborah Frenkel and Ingrid Bartkowiak

What Dogs See
Based on The Way of Dog by Zana Fraillon and Sean Buckingham
Dogs often seem confused about many human activities or objects in their
environment. In this book, Scruffity has unusual names for things that humans
take for granted. For example: he calls humans ‘shoe-legs’, a train a
‘snaking metal muncher’ and birds ‘sky singers.’
Try to see the following things as a dog might see them and give them new names
from a dog’s perspective.
Car TV Fan
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Air conditioner Washing machine Ringing phone
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Electric pole Door bell Fridge
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Pick your favourite three and draw pictures in the boxes below of what
you think a dog sees.

Particular Penguins
Based on Frank’s Red Hat by Sean E Avery
Frank and his penguin friends have very expressive eyes.

Look closely at Sean E Avery’s illustrations.
Add to the eyes to show how each of the penguins below is feeling.
scared sad angry surprised
Look at the hat designs on the end papers. Create an exciting new hat for Frank,
using your favourite colours. You could use collage or any other medium of your
choice. Once you have designed Frank’s hat, make a life-size one that you can wear
by using cardboard or a container as your base. Maybe you can wear it for a Book
Week dress-up day!

Investigating our Reefs
Based on A Is for Australian Reefs by Frané Lessac
Frane Lessac’s fascinating new book, A Is for Australian Reefs, shows that along
the coastline of Australia, underwater reefs are bustling with the most amazing sea
creatures on the planet. Answers to Challenge and Word Search bit.ly/Aus-Reefs
Challenge: Answer the questions listed on the back of the book? Use picture
clues, alphabetical order, maps or the text to find the answers.
Word Search 1: Complete the Word Search below.
Brainstorm: Think, Pair, Share to create a word list for life on Australian
reefs. Use A Is for Australian Reefs as well as other books from your library.
Word Search 2: Using square-ruled paper, create a word search for others
using your word list.
H A L X Y R D E C N E F E D K J F M S Y
S Q U I L T B I O D I V E R S I T Y O O
I U Z O V P E W E A K I Q W S R E I S P
F E A S I D O H U R R C A H I L T P R U
Y E L L O W T A I L B A R R A C U D A S
L N I O L E A L W E C M B S M I N P T A
L S A E E O L E L A M O B C V J S A S L
E L Z Q T R I S O F U U K S I N H R A N
J A O P S X A H C Y A F Y U T I E R E G
R N E T E N R A Y S M L K L J N L O S R
O D P S A G H R A E G A N L I G L T P E
A G S Z A S Q K U A Y G I O L A G F E E
E R N C P V Y I A D P E R M A L R I G N
B O I O P O Z E B R A S E A H O R S E T
M U H E L M T C X A J I N D A O T H S U
T P C W E O E A I G O P Y A D R I O L R
U E R I S G S U P O T C O L E E N Y P T
I R U K A N D J I N E L W C B E V N T L
P S G X A N T H I D C R A B S F L I A E
S W T P T W I H S I F D N A H P Y S F Q
Atoll Handfish Octopus Urchins
Biodiversity Irukandji Parrotfish Violet Sea Apples
Camouflage Jellyfish Yellowtail Whale Shark
Defence Krill Queensland groupers Xanthid Crabs
Eels Leafy Seadragon Rays Barracudas
Fish Molluscs Sea Stars Zebra Sea Horse
Green turtle Ningaloo Reef Tun Shell

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How to Fold – PDF

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comm energetic friendly

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In My Strange Shrinking Parents, Sworder makes

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Some Other Ideas

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Design a farmhouse and decorate it with

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Go for a nature walk.

Practise drawing the object you collec

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Write the missing word in the sentence.

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Colour the finger puppets and cut them out.

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COLOSSAL GARGANTUAN GIGANTIC GINORMOUS HUGE

HUMONGOUS IMMENSE LOFTY MASSIVE TALL TOWERING

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* You can glue your picture on to cardboard first to make it stronger.

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Challenge yourself to do random acts of kindness as often as you can!

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What sounds did you hear?

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Underneath each word, make a list of other words that rhyme.

drop fish snap snip bump

Find the frog by joining up the letters.

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Frank and his penguin friends have very expressive eyes.

scared sad angry surprised

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