Next date: Wednesday, 21 May 2025 | 11:00 AM to 11:45 AM
The 2025 National Simultaneous Storytime book for 2025 is The Truck Cat written by Deborah Frenkel and illustrated by Danny Snell. The Truck Cat is a story about cats and humans, immigration and identity, and homes lost and found. Along with his human, Yacoub, Tinka travels roads wide and narrow, near and distant. But no matter how much they travel, home feels very far away – for both of them. When Tinka and Yacoub are unexpectedly separated, they are determined to find their way back to each other – and, in doing so, might find more than they expected … The Truck Cat was selected by an expert panel formed of members of ALIA’s Children’s and Youth Services special interest group, the Australian Coalition for School Libraries, and children’s literacy consultants, all of whom praised the book for its universal themes such as home, loneliness and migration. This also marks the first year of a new selection process for NSS, with over 80 titles submitted for consideration from publishers Australia-wide. Millions will come together to read The Truck Cat on Wednesday 21 May 2025 at 12:00pm AEST and once again we’re hoping to break records.
This year’s NSS saw over 2.3 million children from over 20,000 locations join together to read Aura Parker’s Bowerbird Blues.
11am - Wednesday, 21 May 2025
Edward River Library, 55 Napier Street, Deniliquin, 2710, View Map
55 Napier Street , Deniliquin 2710
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