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Welcome back to Term 3. This term we will be celebrating Book Week. At St
Catherine’s students will be engaged in a range of activities to celebrate this important event.
Each year since 1945 the CBCA has brought children and books together across Australia through CBCA Book Week. During this time schools and public libraries spend one glorious week celebrating books and Australian children's authors and illustrators.
Theme: Old Worlds, New Worlds, Other Worlds
Dates: Term 3 August 21-27
Artwork: Shaun Tan
As part of the celebrations this term we will be having two author visits.
George Ivanoff 3rd September - Years 3-6
George Ivanoff is an author. He lives in the suburbs of Melbourne, Australia.
He has written over 100 books for children and teenagers, including fiction and non-fiction. He has written school readers, library reference books, chapter books, novelettes, novels and even a short story collection.
With his latest series of books, George has entered the world of commercial non-fiction for children. The Survival Guide take a humorous and creative approach to presenting factual information.
George’s most recent fictional series is OTHER WORLDS. With this series of four books George has ventured into the realms of science fiction and fantasy, two of his favourite genres, in order to tell stories about ordinary kids facing extraordinary circumstances.
George’s has written 13 books in his interactive You Choose series. You Choose: The Treasure of Dead Man’s Cove won the 2015 YABBA in the “Fiction for Younger Readers” category; and You Choose: Alien Invasion From Beyond the Stars got an Honour Award in the KOALAs in 2016 and 2017.
His teen science fiction novel, Gamers’ Quest (2009), won a Chronos Award for speculative fiction. The sequel, Gamers’ Challenge (2011), was shortlisted for the same award. And the final book in the Gamers trilogy, Gamers’ Rebellion (2013), also won a Chronos Award. This trilogy has now been re-branded and re-released as Game On! Level Up! and Game Over!
George has also written a series of realistic adventure books for kids — RFDS Adventures. The four books in this series were published in 2016.
George also writes short stories and articles for adults as well as kids. Of all these, he is most proud to have had the opportunity to write a Doctor Who story for the Short Trips: Defining Patterns anthology (Big Finish, UK, 2008).
Occasionally, George has been known to moonlight as an actor. He has had small roles in numerous productions including the television series Neighbours and the feature films Frozen Butterflies and William Kelly's War. He recently guest starred in an episode of the audio series Night Terrace.
George eats too much chocolate, drinks too much coffee and watches too much Doctor Who.
He has one wife, two children, two cats and several chickens. And he is very content!
Valanga Khoza 10th September - Years Prep - 2
Valanga Khoza was born in South Africa and spent his youth in Alexandra, a black township in Johannesburg, and in rural Transvaal. Growing up in a community where many could neither read nor write, music and dance and storytelling were an integral part of the culture of his people. Since moving to Australia in 1976, Valanga has been telling stories and singing about his homeland, South Africa. Sharing stories from his homeland through performance and song keep his culture alive. His solo performance Out Of Africa has toured schools throughout Australia to the enthusiastic acclaim of students and teachers in primary and secondary schools.
