The Across the Story Bridge Competition Competition!
These are some of the display ideas brainstormed by everyone at the Pre-bookweek Extravaganza - please add your ideas to the list
- Build a rope bridge in the library, hand out blank “planks” that children can draw on, write reviews, write favourite books or characters etc. onto before they are added to the bridge. (this could also be a competition with the best entries being judged)
- Make a fold out book (in the shape of a bridge) where children write their own story about a bridge (gap or hurdle) they’ve crossed in life so far.
- Design a graphic novel format story which brings together characters from different shortlisted books
- Silhouettes of famous bridges and the kids have to guess what bridges they are (eg. Sydney Harbour Bridge, Golden Gate, London Bridge etc.)
- Make a mud map of the local area (inspired by To the Top End by Roland Harvey)
- Make a tree covered in shoes (inspired by Schumann the Shoeman by Stella Danalis)
- Make a bridge out of recycled materials (cereal boxes, postage tubes, reverse garbage, pipe cleaners)
- Make a bridge out of discarded books
- Make a timeline of older books (a history of stories)
- Put shoes from various cultures on a bridge
- Make a reader's bridge with individual photos of students and staff reading a book collaged into a shape of the Sydney Harbour Bridge
I READ BECAUSE . . .
every journey begins at the library and it’s time for me to start packing.
one of these days I’m going to get out of this town, and I’m going to go everywhere and meet everybody, and I want to be ready.
one life isn’t enough, and in the pages of a book I can be anybody.
the words that build the story become mine, to build my life.
I have friends who don’t, and young though they are, they’re beginning to run out of material.
I read not for happy endings but for new beginnings; I’m just beginning myself, and I wouldn’t mind a map.
(by Richard Peck)
Links to websites about bridges:
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