Christmas is coming …
November 21, 2008… and there are new books to share with your students.
Popular illustrator, Dee Huxley, has brought to life the C.J. Dennis poem, A bush Christmas.
For very young students, there is a new Kilmeny Niland title, An Aussie day before Christmas, based on the rhythms of Clement Moore’s poem, The night before Christmas. A Tenth Anniversary Edition of this famous poem illustrated by Jan Brett is also just out.
If your students enjoy the books of Jackie French and Bruce Whatley, they have created an engaging Christmas story about a gloomy Bunyip in Emily and the BIG BAD Bunyip. Glenda Millard and Stephen Michael King have also combined to produce a gentle Australian nativity story, Applesauce and the Christmas miracle. And, for a fun read for those who know their fairytales, Mark Burgess and Russell Ayto have given us Where teddy bears come from.
For more titles that may be already in your school library, check out the Christmas list in the CMIS Resource Bank. There is also a CMIS Christmas theme page with its rationale for discussing Christmas with students and links to some of the most useful of the Christmas websites on the Internet.
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