This post is a few weeks late, I know. The last fortnight I’ve had a run of sick children, my son, then my daughters, then my son again, then me and hubby. I haven’t read a lot over this time, though I do still have a couple of books that I’ve read, but haven’t yet reviewed, that I need to type up and post in the coming weeks, but they all require a little more brain power than I’m capable of giving at the moment.
Instead I thought I’d share with you our book week activity. As a homeschooler, I still try to incorporate all the awesome things the kids loved about school, and Book Week is definitely one of them. After searching out some ideas online, this year we sat down and made a list of all the characters we could think of for each letter of the alphabet. We tried to focus on books by Australian Authors, though you’ll see that a few non-Australian characters have snuck in there as well.
A – Ash (Mapmaker Chronicles by AL Tait), Ashala Wolf (The Interrogation of Ashala Wolf by Ambelin Kwaymullina), Andy (The Treehouse Series by Andy Griffiths and Terry Denton), Alfonso (Cat’s Ahoy by Peter Bentley)
B – Blinky Bill (Blinky Bill by Dorothy Wall), Booger Boy (Captain Underpants by Dav Pilky), Bilbo (The Hobbit by JRR Tolkien)
C – Cuddlepie (Snugglepot and Cuddlepie by May Gibbs), Cleaver (Mapmaker Chronicles by AL Tait)
D – Damon (Obernewtyn Chronicles by Isobelle Carmody)
E – Elspeth (Obernewtyn Chronicles by Isobelle Carmody) and Ellie (Tomorrow When the War Began by John Marsden)
F – Figgy (Figgy in the World by Tamsin Janu), Frodo (Lord of the Rings by JRR Tolkien)
G – Grandma Poss (Possum Magic by Mem Fox)
H – Hush (Possum Magic by Mem Fox), Harry Potter (Harry Potter by J K Rowling
I – Isabeau (Witches of Eileanan by Kate Forsyth)
J – Jericho (Mapmaker Chronicles by AL Tait), Jill (The Treehouse Series by Andy Griffiths and Terry Denton)
K – Koala Lou (Koala Lou by Mem Fox)
L –
M – Mary, Margaret (Who Am I by Anita Heiss), Marly (Meet Marly by Alice Pung)
N – Nana (Figgy in the World by Tamsin Janu), Nell (Sail Away, The Ballad of Skip and Nell by Mem Fox)
O –
P –
Q – Quinn (Mapmaker Chronicles by AL Tait)
R – Rushton (Obernewtyn Chronicles by Isobelle Carmody)
S – Skip (Sail Away, The Ballad of Skip and Nell by Mem Fox), Snugglepot (Snugglepot and Cuddlepie by May Gibbs)
T – Terry (The Treehouse Series by Andy Griffiths and Terry Denton)
U –
V – Very Hungry Caterpillar (The Very Hungry Caterpillar by Eric Carle)
W – Wilfred Gordon Macdonald Partridge (Wilfred Gordon Macdonald Partridge by Mem Fox)
X –
Y – Yousra (Marly’s Business by Alice Pung)
Z – Zain (Mapmaker’s Chronicles by AL Tait), Zaza (Zaza’s Baby Brother by Lucy Cousins)
Though we tried our best, we couldn’t come up with a character for every letter.
Can you think of any children’s book characters for the letters we missed?
Heather Ewings 