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‘Herman and Rosie’ selected for Read for Australia event

Thousands of school children will read Gus Gordon’s picture book Herman and Rosie (Viking) during Read for Australia, a nation-wide reading event to be held during National Literacy and Numeracy Week (NLNW) in July.

Read for Australia encourages school students across the country to read the same book simultaneously at 2pm Australian Eastern Standard Time on Wednesday 31 July. Individual schools will decide if students will read together in classrooms or gather together as a school to take part in the event.

Read for Australia is one of a number of literacy activities held during NLNW, which runs from 29 July to 4 August. Other suggested activities on the NLNW website include book clubs, buddy-reading, book swaps and a whole-school writing event. Illustrator and author Kerry Argent is this year’s NLNW literacy ambassador.

As previously reported by Books+Publishing, Herman and Rosie has been shortlisted for the picture book category in the 2013 CBCA Book of the Year Awards and has recently been adapted as a school stage play.

For more information about Read for Australia, visit the NLNW website here.

 

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