CBCA Sun Project : Shadow Judging Book of the Year Program

This term a group of Grade 1/2 students from STM have been participating in an initiative called Shadow Judging, run by the Children’s Book Council of Australia.  The program calls for students to dive deeply into the books shortlisted for the CBCA Book of the Year competition and act as “shadow judges”, critiquing the books in terms of the official judging criteria.  We were tasked with selecting a winner in our chosen category and developing a series of creative responses to be shared on the national website.

STM chose to judge the Early Childhood category and, after much debate, chose Briony Stewart’s Everything You Wanted to Know About the Tooth Fairy (And Some Things You Didn’t)  as our winning book. Our beautiful artwork is on display in the Library for CBCA Book Week.

Rebecca Thomas

Librarian