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What happened around New Zealand for International Children's Book Day 2007?

Horotiu School Staff at ICBD book day dressed in Samoan attire. The male on the left is a parent originally from Samoa who visited each class and read to our children in Samoan.

Bethlehem College's Library Display

Horotiu School - Winners of our International Children's Book Day competition
We celebrated international book day at Horotiu School by :
1. Reading stories from around the world to our own classes and then swapping classes Junior - Senior and reading to different classes.
2 Senior childrenn finding legends etc to read to junior children for buddy reading.
3. Having a poster competition depicting stories rule the world.
4. Having a Samoan parent come in and read to children in Samoan.
5. Teachers dressed up in Samoan costume.
6. Having the library open for only boys at lunchtime to encourage boys to read.
7. Teachers doing a play of How Maui Slowed the Sun for the children.

Bethlehem College: Stories ring the world: legends bring the world to New Zealand. Our grandparents have brought those legends to our school!

Our school held a Grandparents Day on 4 April so we combined our display for that, with International Children's Book Day. Our theme is that many Grandparents come from other parts of the world, bringing their stories and legends with them. We asked all visitors to tell us where their grandparents came from and the title of a legend from that country. We had many legends on display.

Judges' comments:

We chose Horotiu because they had a real variety in their events: they included all levels of the school (including mixing the classes with buddy reading and holding their own competition within the school), the community was involved with parental input, as well as the teachers all participating. It was an all inclusive event to mark the day.

They receive two copies of the Storylines anthology, Out of the Deep, edited by Tessa Duder and Lorraine Orman, thanks to Reed Publishing.

We decided to award a runner-up prize to Bethlehem College for two reasons: one, we liked their approach, involving the community, the grandparents with their knowledge, and secondly, we appreciate how difficult it can be at times for secondary schools to coordinate an event such as this.

They receive one copy of the Storylines anthology, Out of the Deep, edited by Tessa Duder and Lorraine Orman, thanks to Reed Publishing.

We pay a special mention to Waiheke and their full schedule of exciting events!

Auckland City Libraries

Stories ring the world storytimes and displays

All Auckland City Libraries will be holding Stories ring the world storytimes between Friday 30 March and Thursday 5 April. There will also be related displays.

Visit www.aucklandcitylibraries.com for more information

Mt Carmel Primary School, Meadowbank, Auckland has a display of books from all around the world along with the beautiful poster. One of the parents is coming to the library on Monday at lunchtime to read these books to children who are interested and they hope that all classroom teachers will do the same sometime during that day.

Raewyn Dakers, Librarian, Mt Carmel School

University of Auckland Faculty of Education

Students and staff have been invited to spend 10 minutes or so, at the Student Café between 12-1pm on Monday 2 April, celebrating children, books and reading on International Children’s Book Day, for which New Zealand is the international host in 2007. Bring your favourite children’s book to share with students and staff.

Waitakere City Libraries

Waitakere Central Library - Read Around the World Storytime.

Sunday 1 April 11am - A Hans Christian Andersen fairytale, a Maori legend, an African myth, an Indian story.

See the flags from each of these countries and learn how to say a greeting in each of these languages. Enter the 'match the country to the flag and greeting' competition .

Waitakere City Libraries branches

Monday 2 April - Classes from local schools will visit library brances for a special storytime where they will listen to four different legends from around the globe . They will learn to say a greeting in each language and will complete a giant jigsaw to discover the flag of each country

Kaurilands School in Glen Eden will celebrate International Children's Book Day with teachers bringing their favourite story to read to a class. There will be a roster so each class will not have their own teacher.

Woodlands Park School is a small school (179 pupils) in a lovely bush-clad area of West Auckland. The children are very enthusiastic users of their school library and next week's activities of fairy tale reading and dressing up will have the library 'bulging at the seams"!
Thank you for the wonderful poster, which will also be used when we study Maori culture next term.
Jo Carter, Librarian

Waiheke Children's Book Day

For the first time, Waiheke Island is celebrating International Children's Book Day. Click here to see full information of what is happening on Waiheke

Manukau City

Clendon Park School in Manurewa is having a Dr Seuss poster competition which closes on 29 March. Prizes will be announced at a Read-a-thon on Monday 2 March with every child in the school reading en mass in the school hall

Baverstock Oaks School

To celebrate International Children's Book Day, this is the list of activities teachers can choose from:

Dressing as a book character for the day
Creating a talk for the rest of the class on the book
Children streamed into groups and travel around school visiting other classrooms where teachers prepare exciting activities based on THEIR fave book
Have a display of fairytales and legends from around the world.
Get the students to bring in books in other languages and perhaps read some out in the library, or the classroom
A drawing competition of your favourite fairytale or legend book
A colouring competition of book characters (with prizes)
Design a poster advertising a particular children's book Present a speech 'selling' a book.
Do research using the Inquiry/Action method on an author.
Read a Hans Christian Anderson fairytale each day and run a homework/class art competition.
Write three questions related to HCA's stories to form a literature quiz. We could hold this in classes, mark then have prizes for the winners.
Children from other countries bring a children’s book from their culture to shareLook at poster in library advertising ICBD and design own posters.
Encourage students to look at display in library and share their thoughts
In the Library - a colouring competition from folk stories (with prizes) and a display of folktales from around the world.

Christine Hurst - Library Manager, Baverstock Oaks School
Flatbush, Manukau

Bairds Mainfreight Primary School in Manukau City
will help celebrate the International Children's Book Day by doing the following:
* setting up two special displays in school library 1) Margaret Mahy 2) Maori Legends
* rostering the whole school that day to visit the library with their buddy class ... displays will be presented by their teachers and our librarian as well as a special focus on the Fairy Tales section... and reading with, to and by teacher/students.
We also just ordered 15 posters and are encouraging each classroom to create their own Maori Legends and or Fairy Tale corner.
Have a great celebration on Monday.
Catherine Bowes (Middle Syndicate), Bairds Mainfreight Primary School.

Waikato

Horotiu

We are celebrating international book day at Horotiu School by :
1. Reading stories from around the world to our own classes and then swapping classes Junior - Senior and reading to different classes.
2 Senior childrenn are finding legends etc to read to junior children for buddy reading.
3. Having a poster competition depicting stories rule the world.
4. Having a Samoan parent coming in and reading to children in Samoan.
5. Teachers dressing up in Samoan costume.
6. Having the library open for only boys at lunchtime to encourage boys to read.
7. Teachers doing a play of How Maui Slowed the Sun for the children.

Hamilton

Melville High School in Hamilton. The librarian has taken photos of senior student leaders and other senior readers with their favourite book, printed them to A3 size, laminated them and will display them in the library along with a large display of new books for all levels.

Jan Matthews, Librarian, Melville High School.

Hillcrest High School is inviting the local crèche into their library for storytime.

Sheila Duke, Library Assistant, Hillcrest High School

Rotorua

At Rotorua Lakes High School we have a display using the Stories Ring the World poster. We are featuring short stories and folk tales. We will show a video at lunchtime on 2 April - Get Real by Nicola Woolmington. This Australian story is about high school students dealing with issues such as self esteem and bullying.
Ann Hall
Library Manager - Rotorua Lakes High School

Tauranga

Stories ring the world: legends bring the world to New Zealand. Our grandparents have brought those legends to our school!

Our school is holding Grandparents Day on 4 April so we have combined our display for that, with International Children's Book Day. Our theme is that many grandparents come from other parts of the world, bringing their stories and legends with them. We are asking all visitors to tell us where their grandparents came from and the title of a legend from that country. We have many legends on display.

The grandparents are being taken on a tour of the school and are coming to the library to buy a book for their grandchild(ren). Books may be sold any day that week, so Stories should bring the 'world' into our library!

Sheila Little - Librarian, Bethlehem College

Wellington Region

Bilingual storytelling and launch

Guji Guji , an ugly duckling story from Taiwan, read in Chinese by Taiwanese professional storyteller Angela Wang and in English. (Gecko Press) Wellington Central Library, 11am, Saturday 31 April 2007.

Display of picture books from around the world

Including Hairy Maclary and David Hill books in several languages. Also see the Gecko Press collection of picture books from IBBY illustrator nominees

Readings of books in other languages at libraries around the Wellington region

Book launch for Dad's Takeaways

Mallinson Rendell will launch a new picture book on International Children's Book Day. Dad's Takeaways by Melanie Drewery, illustrated by Christopher White, will be launched in a celebration at Museum of Wellington City and Sea, 5.30pm on 2 April 2007.

Canterbury Region

International storytelling

Come and hear stories told in a number of languages including Maori, Dutch, Korean and German. One special guest will be Sarona Aiono-Iosefa whose new book The Pipi Swing has just been published.

1.30-2.30pm Monday 2 April 2007

Centre for the Child, Central City Library

Display of children's books from around the world.

Centre for the Child, Central City Library, and various community libraries.

Visits by multicultural pre-school groups to libraries to share songs and stories during pre-school story times:

^{Monday 2 April}

^{Upper Riccarton Library 9.30-10am:}

^{An Nur Preschool (Muslim)}

^{New Brighton Library 10.20am}

^{Tino E Tasi (Samoan)}

^{Wednesday 4 April}

^{Hornby Library 10.15-10.45am:}

^{An Nur Preschool (Muslim)}

^{Thursday 5 April}

^{Papanui Library 10.15-10.45am} ^:

^{Tonga Kahau Ola (Tongan)}

^{Linwood Library 10-10.30am:}

^{Autamafai Preschool (Samoan)}

Southland Region

Fancy dress day and book sharing at Glenorchy

Glenorchy School has 16 pupils on its roll. I am the senior room teacher and, with the help of my class and class captain, we will be organising a fancy dress day in which pupils and staff will dress as their favourite childrens book character.

In character, during our afternoon reading programme, the senior and junior classes will pair up to read a chapter from their favourite book and introduce the other pupils to their story. Pupils will be encouraged to swap stories.

Our pupils all receive a book at prize-giving each year and we will be asking each child to tell us about that book also. (They received it in December).

Helen Reed, Glenorchy School

Queenstown

Queenstown Primary School has planned for the children to create posters depicting their various cultures and a short description or story to explain their poster. 5 winning entries will be chosen for presentation during the school library and prizes will be given.

Alagu Robert, Librarian, Queenstown Primary School