Students from Kindergarten to Year Six celebrated National Simultaneous Storytime 2015 on Wednesday 27 May 2015 at 11:00am.

Our campus was one of 3,261 locations across Australia who shared a reading of this years’ selected book, The Brothers Quibble by Australian author/illustrator, Aaron Blabey.

Kindergarten shared this book, as well as some of their other favourites, with “the big boys” at the Rae Centre at the Stanmore Campus. A quick trip on the school bus and they were soon awe-struck by the size – of the school and of the boys!

Here at Lindfield, Year One to Year Six shared the same book at the same time, which this year was presented by a reading choir where vocal and facial expression are the only tools used. Sixteen boys represented each of our classes and volunteered their own time to assist with this performance.

We were also able to view a short film by the author that showed our students a little about the author including his massive vinyl record collection, which provoked curiosity and discussion about this recording equipment from a bygone era as well as how he tackles his writing and illustrating.

We will be very fortunate to be able to hear more from Aaron Blabey in August when he visits our school in celebration of Book Week.

Sue Gough – Teacher Librarian