What's hot in book publishing

1. Talking Books: CBCA, New
Directions and New Titles!
June 2013
Paul Macdonald
M Ed B Ed
The Children’s Bookshop
Beecroft
staff@thechildrensbookshop.com.au

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“Reading for pleasure is the most
important way to advance literacy
attainment in children.”
National Literacy Trust UK 2006

3. Focus Areas- National
Curriculum
 Expanded View of Literacy
 Multi-Modal Texts
 National Identity
 Indigenous Focus
 Focus on Asia
 Sustainability
 Greater Focus on Language

4. CBCA 2013

5. Across the Universe

11. 2013 Book Focus
 Library as Universe- Stations could be
the planets.
 Staff as Intergalactic Crew
 Each child gets an intergalactic
passport…. Whoever travels the
fastest gets rewards.

13. Teachers’ Notes
Mrs Mac’s Library
http://www.uqp.uq.edu.au/store/images/Hi-RES/teachersnotes/1209/2944.pdf

16. CBCA Titles
Older Readers

17. Younger Readers

18. Early Childhood

19. Picturebook

20. Eve Pownall

21. Crichton Awards

22. Current Reads?

23. Picture Books
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24. Picture Books

25. Easy Reads Abound

26. Impact of Diary of a Wimpy Kid
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27. Junior Fiction

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A Global Perspective

29. Thrillers/ Horror/ Romance
The Genre for 2013

30. Teen Fiction

31. Classics
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32. Graphic Novels
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33. Non-Fiction
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34. “Children who know adults who read for
pleasure take it for granted that
reading is a valuable and worthwhile
activity”
(Csikszentmihalyi, 1991)
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Paul Macdonald
M Ed B Ed
The Children’s Bookshop
Beecroft
staff@thechildrensbookshop.com.au