Our Meadow Springs students joined in on National Simultaneous Storytime, with everyone reading 'The Truck Cat' by Deborah Frenkel and Danny Snell.
Mrs Tracey Gray read to Year 1 in the Chapel while Mr Noah Clark read to Year 2 students.
The students thoroughly enjoyed the book, with many of them enthusiastically asking questions!
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Our Halls Head students joined in on National Simultaneous Storytime this morning, with everyone reading 'The Truck Cat' by Deborah Frenkel and Danny Snell.
Mrs Natalie Burbage read to Year 3, Year 4 and Year 5 watched an Auslan assisted version in the Library, and our Halls Head Playgroup members joined together in the Hall as well.
It was a fantastic start to the day!
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The Truck Cat is a story about cats and humans, immigration and identity, and homes lost and found.
With illustrations by multi-award-winning artist Danny Snell and words by award-winning new voice Deborah Frenkel, The Truck Cat is the perfect book to inspire kindness and compassion in young children everywhere.
Some cats are house cats. Some are apartment cats.
But Tinka is a truck cat. Tinka lives everywhere.
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.
Yacoub drives his truck to make a living, learning the landscape of a new country along the way, and longing for connection. 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 …
