Year 6 Students Shadow Judge in Book of the Year Awards

During Term 2 and Term 3, a group of thirteen Year 6 students participated in the Shadow Judging: Book of the Year Awards. This program is organised by The Children’s Book Council of Australia and involves students reading six shortlisted books and using a set judging criteria to select the book which they think will be chosen as the CBCA Book of the Year in that particular category.

The students read all six books from the Younger Readers category and met at lunchtime each fortnight to critique the books. The discussions were enthusiastic and the students’ comments were very insightful.

This week was the final meeting where we discussed and compared all six books and voted on which one may be selected by the CBCA as Book of the Year for Younger Readers on Friday 16 August.

The winner was… Scar Town by Tristan Bancks.

– Danielle Collins
Senior School Teacher Librarian

Click on image gallery for full size images.