MORETON Border News’ first Book Week Best Dressed competition had an overwhelming response as hundreds of parents and caregivers emailed photos of their children in costume.
Walloon boy Hastin won the Moreton Border News most commended award and a Lego set worthy of a pirate’s booty.
There was Emmet from the LEGO Movie, a pirate, Poppy from Trolls, Pikachu and many more, choosing a winner was a hard task.
This year’s book week theme was Reading is Magic.
“To me, reading is very close to magic,” said Griffith University’s Dr David Ellison.
“It’s a very weird thing, you read words and symbols to be transported into another world.
“When you read to children you’ll notice something very strange start to happen, they stop thrashing about, stop moving and lean in a little bit.”
He said reading took people ‘somewhere else’.
“When we read, we get a chance to experience what life is like for someone else,” he said.
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MOST parents will be breathing a sigh of relief this week because Book Week 2024 is done and dusted.
This journalist took on the task of making the magical clock from Enid Blyton’s The Faraway Tree for her daughter.
It seemed an easy enough task, a cardboard box was cut appropriately, silver spray paint applied, numbers and letters made from polymer clay.
On Tuesday night the creation was awaiting its big day on the dining room table, glue and paint drying.
Wednesday morning was like any other except after putting the clock over her shoulders all the numbers and letters fell off.
It’s 8.30 am and we are scrambling to find a hot glue stick for our glue gun (school starts at 8.30am and the parade at 9am).
Can you feel the panic?
Half a stick of glue is found and pushed through the guns hole using a pencil.
As it heated up a small tack of glue was applied next to each number and letter.
It worked but about 30mins too late.
We arrived at the school and raced the clock, or rather the clock raced into the hall.
Just in time, as Miss Nine walked in her grade was getting up for their walk around.
I stood breathless watching on and pretending I wasn’t one of those parents who dropped the ball.
I had dropped the ball but picked it up again in the nick of time.
Next year I will be a lot more organised and have it done a few days before Book Week parade.
Problem is, I said the same thing last year.
