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Every month we celebrate story with a different theme according to the Leigh Hobbs 'It's Your Story' Calendar. In June we #HearAStorySeeAStoryFeelAStory.
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- Check out our 'Hear a Story, See a Story, Feel a Story' activity ideas, book lists and resources below
- Download the 2016 calendar here
- Share the results of your story hunting adventures online with the hashtag #HearAStorySeeAStoryFeelAStory
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- Borrow an audio book from your school or public library. Borrow the actual book of this story too. Can you read along with the story as it is read?
- Lie somewhere different – under a tree, on a hammock, in your local park – and listen to an audio book being read to you. Imagine the places where the story is set, and what the characters look like as well.
- Ask someone to read a book to you and use a different voice – a whisper or a loud voice perhaps? Can someone read to you in a foreign language?
- Look at all the letters in the word L-A-U-R-E-A-T-E. How many words, with 3 letters or more, can you make from this word? Keep trying until you make at least 10 words. What is the longest word you can make?
- Can you read just the dialogue of the Horrible Harriet book – when she is actually speaking herself? Listen to the way she talks…do you think she is really horrible?
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The Terrible Plop
Ursula Dubosarsky and Andrew Joyner
(fiction, primary)
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Tiny Timmy
Tim Cahill
(fiction, primary)
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A is for Australia
Frane Lessac
(non-fiction, primary)
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The Very Noisy Bear
Nick Bland
(fiction, primary)
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Soon
Morris Gleitzman
(fiction, primary)
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Emu
Claire Saxby and Graham Byrne
(non-fiction, primary)
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Pig the Fibber
Aaron Blabey
(fiction, primary)
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Withering by Sea
Judith Rossell
(fiction, primary)
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Tea and Sugar Christmas
Jane Jolly and Robert Ingpen
(non-fiction, primary)
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- Bookshops are fabulous places to visit – and they really appreciate your support. Their staff are keen readers and are always happy to recommend just the right book for you. Can you walk to your local bookshop? How many kilometres is it from your home?
- Collins Booksellers help to support ACLA – and also sell wonderful books! Look on their website and look at the hundreds, no thousands, of books you can buy. Find your nearest Collins Booksellers store on the find a store section of their website and visit that shop. Buy a book!
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Laureate Leigh in Brisbane
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- June 23: Leigh Hobbs will deliver the Annual Lecture in Children's Literature in Brisbane. He will address the topic: The Mystery of Visual Literacy and why humour isn't taken more seriously. Book here.
- June 25 and 26: Leigh will be visiting the State Library of Queensland and doing workshops as part of the Out of the Box festival. Find out more here.
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