S har ing the communit y voi ce of Eumundi and it s hinte rland Issue 18, Thursday 22 April 2021
The space countdown is on
Did you know that a children’s book written and illustrated right here in Eumundi is currently aboard the International Space Station?
between the Australian Library and Information Assn (ALIA) with publisher Scholastic Australia, the Australian Space Agency and the Office of the Chief Scientist.
On Wednesday 19 May at 11am, local author Philip Bunting’s book Give Me Some Space! will be read live from the International Space Station— by a NASA astronaut—to over 1 million children simultaneously across Australia and New Zealand.
Promoting the value of shared reading and the joy of books, National Simultaneous Storytime (NSS) is an annual event hosted by ALIA. Each year, one book is selected to be read simultaneously in many places including libraries, schools, preschools, homes and bookshops around Australia and New Zealand. Cont. p3
The book reading is a collaborative initiative
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