National Simultaneous Storytime 2021

There was great excitement last Wednesday, as the Year 4 students prepared to participate in National Simultaneous Storytime!

Now in its 21st successful year, this event is organised by the Australian Library & Information Association with the aim of promoting the value of reading and literacy. Every year a picture book, written and illustrated by an Australian author and illustrator, is read simultaneously to children around the country and increasingly across the world. 

With the selected book for 2021, Give me some space! by Philip Bunting, being read from the International Space Station by an astronaut, the opportunity to combine the Year 4 investigation into the concept of Exploration with literature, was almost too good to be true.

Without a doubt, seeing the book defy gravity during the reading was most definitely a memorable and humorous highlight for the girls!

This year an incredible 1,980,280 readers participated in National Simultaneous Storytime at 33,418 locations, including participants from New Zealand, Thailand, UK, Canada, Singapore, Vietnam and Hong Kong.

Karen McBride
Primary Teacher Librarian