CBCA Book Week is one of our favourite times of the year here at the Hub. We love sharing the excitement of the shortlist and winners announcements, and celebrating our incredible local authors and illustrators. Australia really does create some of the best kids’ books in the world, and Book Week is our chance to collectively acknowledge (and send a big cheer!) to our wonderful children’s literature community.

As always, we have a range of expertly-designed resources to help kids of all ages explore the shortlisted stories in more depth, and to discover new books to love. We’re all about making the experience of Book Week easy, fun and engaging for you and your kids.  

Here's what's on offer in 2025:

Choose a Story Response: Lower Primary version & Middle-Upper Primary version.
Select a shortlisted story to read-along with, choose an activity type, then roll a dice and find the corresponding task to complete using the templates available. Includes book response tasks, creative writing prompts, and language and literary activities. 

Subscribing schools can access 'Choose a Story Response' PDF's via our CBCA Resource Collection here. 

Story Hunt: Watch and read-along with the stories, answer the questions and solve the mystery message! Suitable for middle & upper primary students, and primary-aged library patrons and families. Click on the image below to download. 

Draw & Find Story Fun: Explore the Early Childhood shortlisted titles with this fun activity. Includes 'Can you find...' and drawing prompts related to each story. Suitable for younger children with the support of an adult or older child. Click on the image below to download.

Make Your Own Reading Space: A special CBCA Book Week edition of one of our Story Tools Lessons. Includes a booklet of activities and templates for students to design their own reading space and explore their school/class library to find books. Suitable for middle & upper primary students and library patrons. Click on the image below to download, then find the lesson here. *

+ ALONGSIDE EACH SHORTLISTED STORY ON STORY BOX, YOU WILL ALSO FIND:

Classroom Ideas & Student Task Sheets (for schools only): For educators to help students delve deeper into the themes, characters, literary and language features of the books. Includes discussion prompts, activity suggestions, independent tasks and templates. Suitable for primary aged students across different levels. Find on each story page under the activities tab or via the resource collection here. 

Activity Times: Practical hands-on activities designed for younger learners. Includes a range of craft, play and nature based ideas and instructions. Find on each story page under the activities tab.

Book an Adventure with StoryBox for CBCA Book Week!

✅ The Land Recalls You
✅ The Truck Cat
✅ Afloat
✅ Everything You Ever Wanted to Know About the Tooth Fairy (And Some Things You Didn’t)
✅ A Leaf Called Greaf
✅ These Long-Loved Things
✅ How to Move a Zoo
✅ We Live in a Bus
✅ South With the Seabirds
✅ The Garden of Broken Things
✅ One Little Dung Beetle
✅ Don't Worry Felix
✅ The Wobbly Bike
✅ Spiro
✅ Digger Digs Down

Each story is a perfect springboard for rich discussions, creative responses, and curriculum connections. Plus, with our diverse range of storytellers, students will hear a variety of voices and accents that reflect the true spirit of Australian storytelling.

📺 Start watching here.

* Note, the Story Tools 'Make Your Own Reading Space' Lesson is available to all school subscribers plus Public Library Premium subscribers.
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