Children’s Book Week 2008 Slogan: Fuel Your Mind

 

How to Organise Children's Book Week in your School or Public Library [Word Document]

• Reading promotion and display ideas:
  Activate your imagination!
  Escape into other worlds!
  Gallop into adventure!
  with Shaun Tan’s Book Week Critter. Promote adventure, fantasy and travel books.
   
• Run a competition in your library to name the Book Week critter and/or join the Junior Judges online competition.
   
• Fuel your mind for great energy and results Learning Fundamentals
  ‘A healthy diet can enhance your mental acuity and reduce or prevent brain decline. A functioning brain relies on healthy building blocks and a healthy fuel source. As a result, good nutrition and exercise are critical for a good memory’ (University Professor Peter Dingle)
  Healthy food sources for concentration and memory - what food stimulates the brain? Why are some foods such as fish and Omega 3 better for the brain than others? 
   
• Make a Healthy Reading pyramid (similar to a Healthy Eating pyramid with the 5 food groups) – a little ‘junk reading’ is OK but a balanced diet of reading across a number of areas stimulates the brain.
   
• Petrol and oil theme – transport, racing cars ...
   
• ‘Reading is to the mind what exercise is to the body’ (Joseph Addison 1672-1719)
  Olympics tie-in – fuel for the mind and the body

 

Book Week Ideas 2008 download this Word Document and add more of your own.
** Also includes websites and other publications that are available for purchase.

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