{"id":4743,"date":"2021-05-27T13:58:16","date_gmt":"2021-05-27T02:58:16","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.thebuzz.net.au\/sceggs\/?post_type=article&p=4743"},"modified":"2021-05-27T13:58:16","modified_gmt":"2021-05-27T02:58:16","slug":"national-simultaneous-storytime-2021","status":"publish","type":"article","link":"https:\/\/www.thebuzz.net.au\/sceggs\/article\/national-simultaneous-storytime-2021\/","title":{"rendered":"National Simultaneous Storytime 2021"},"content":{"rendered":"

There was great excitement last Wednesday, as the Year 4 students prepared to participate in National Simultaneous Storytime<\/em>!<\/p>\n

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\u00a0Australian author and illustrator, is read simultaneously to children around the country and increasingly across the world.\u00a0<\/p>\n

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With the selected book for 2021, Give me some space!<\/em> 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.<\/p>\n