8th January Guess Whose Birthday It Is!

I love celebrating birthdays with picture books Many years ago I made a calendar with children's authors and illustrators marked on it.  This year I thought I might take that in a different direction as a way of promoting biography reading. The students at my school love the books in the Little People Big Dreams series, so much so that we have given them a special home so that the young readers can find them easily.

I'm thinking of putting a question above them 'Who do you share a birthday with?' or 'Which famous person was born on the same date as you?' 

Today, the 8th January three of those books would be on show...

(1935 - 1977)

(1947 - 2016)

(1942 -2018)

4th February 2011

Today is Russell Hoban's birthday, but I wrote about him last year and have nothing new to say. Instead I want to tell you about a book I read today which has birthdays and weather as themes and given the extremes in weather in Australia at the moment the children need some light relief. Meltdown by Australian author Barbara Ker Wilson and illustrator David Cox was the perfect book for the very hot day we had today. The book tells the story of Andy's birthday. His mother has decided that there will not be a party this year and instead organises a surprise icecream birthday cake. It turns out to be a very hot day and the family are caught in a traffic jam... Get it from your library and find out how the problem is solved.