The 2024 CBCA Shortlisted Stories on StoryBox will include...

From the EARLY CHILDHOOD category:
Gymnastica Fantastica!
The Concrete Garden (from 7 August)

From the PICTURE BOOK category:
That Bird Has Arms!
Bowerbird Blues
Timeless
Every Night at Midnight (from 7 August)

And from the NEW ILLUSTRATOR category:
Hope is the Thing (available now)
Raised by Moths (from 14 August)
When You're a Boy
Phonobet (from 31 July)

Visit this link to view all of the available 2024 CBCA Shortlisted stories on StoryBox Hub

RESOURCES NOW AVAILABLE HERE!

Our exciting range of CBCA 2024 Book Week resources are now available to download (for subscribers and those trialing StoryBox Hub) and explore with your students and young library patrons. They include:

FOR SCHOOLS:

  • Activity Cards and response templates - Short, engaging story response prompts to help students explore, analyse and connect with the themes, characters, language and literary features of ten of the shortlisted stories. Students can select a story and an activity card, then use the response templates to engage with stories in creative ways. Includes cards for:

    • lower, middle & upper primary students

    • the following shortlisted stories: When You're a Boy, Raised by Moths, Hope is the Thing, Every Night at Midnight, Timeless, Bowerbird Blues, That Bird Has Arms!, The Concrete Garden, Gymnastica Fantastica!

  • Zines are Magic - Our Story Tools activity: Learn how to make your own DIY mini books and create some amazing Book Week resources to read and share. Includes instructions, templates, tips and teacher notes - as well as access to Story Tools Series 3: Lesson 9 video ‘All About Zines’ featuring graphic novel authors Campbell Whyte and Aśka.

  • Madge’s Magical Mission - An Online Quiz Adventure for this year's CBCA Book Week. Students can journey with Madge through a selection of the shortlisted titles, answering quiz questions, finding clues and souvenirs along the way, to help Madge on her magical mission. Coming soon!


FOR LIBRARIES (& LOWER/MIDDLE PRIMARY):

  • Reading is Magic - The Library Game - Engage your young readers with this fun and easy to implement board game to help them explore this year’s shortlisted stories in a fun and interactive way. All you need is a dice, printed copies of the game board and cards, and access to the shortlisted books - many of which will be available on StoryBox. 


FOR ELCS (& LOWER PRIMARY):

  • Story Trail - Help your young learners explore the shortlisted stories with this fun ‘find and draw’ challenge. Can they find a round object in Bowerbird Blues? Draw something that Felix might see when jumping from rooftop to rooftop as a wolf…in Every Night at Midnight...


Visit our dedicated CBCA 2024 BOOK WEEK RESOURCE COLLECTION to download the resources.*


Our 2024 CBCA Book Week activities will be presented at our PD session on 7th August. Register to attend here.


*Please note, to access the resources you will need to either have an active School Subscription or trial, Professional Subscription or a Library Account Holder with StoryBox.  If your school isn't a subscriber and hasn't had a free 30 day trial with us in the last two years, you can sign up for a free trial and quote here.