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Article  •  12 October 2020

 

Let us tell you a story

Australian authors and personalities read some of our favourite picture books.

To celebrate CBCA Book Week, we are sharing these incredible read-aloud videos. Will you join us for a story? 

 

Andrew Daddo reads Where the Wild Things Are by Maurice Sendak

 

Jamila Rizvi reads Bluey: Bob Bilby

 

Hamish Blake reads No One Likes a Fart by Zoë Foster Blake and Adam Nickel

 

Teresa Palmer reads Ten Minutes to Bed: Little Unicorn by Rhiannon Fielding and Chris Chatterton 

 

Kathy Lette reads Where's Spot? by Eric Hill

 

Paul Kennedy reads I Love You Dad With The Hungry Caterpillar by Eric Carle

 

Julia Gillard reads Bluey: The Beach

 

Fiona McIntosh reads There's a Hippopotamus on Our Roof Eating Cake by Hazel Edwards and Deborah Niland

 

Zoë Foster Blake reads her latest book, Back to Sleep with illustrations by Mike Jacobsen

 

Frank Woodley reads We Love You, Magoo by Briony Stewart

 

Turia Pitt reads Ten Sleepy Sheep by Renee Treml

 

John Williamson and illustrator Simon McLean read their book, Old Man Emu

 

Sam Thaiday reads Bluey: My Dad is Awesome

 

Monica McInerney reads Kissed by the Moon by Alison Lester

 

Paul Kelly reads Who Sank the Boat? by Pamela Allen

 

Josh Pyke reads his book, Lights Out, Leonard

 

Greg Fleet reads Harry the Dirty Dog by Gene Zion and Margaret Bloy Graham

 

Richard Harris reads Where is the Green Sheep? by Mem Fox and Judy Horacek

 

Judy Nunn reads It's Not Scribble to Me by Kate Richie and Jedda Robaard

 

John Wood reads Bluey: The Creek

 

Nicole Alexander reads Ten Little Fingers and Ten Little Toes by Mem Fox and Helen Oxenbury

 

Morris Gleitzman reads Hairy Maclary from Donaldson's Dairy by Lynley Dodd

 

Kate Ritchie reads her book, I Just Couldn't Wait to Meet You

 

Tristan Bancks reads Finding François by Gus Gordon

 

For more read-aloud stories, plus Q&A videos, book trailers and more, be sure to subscribe to the Penguin Books Australia YouTube channel

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