Want more competitions to encourage reading? Just want to encourage reading full stop? Whichever way you swing, there's no doubt kids all over Australia are having a blast falling in love with books.
The Read This! Creative Reading Prize is now on. Get your kids into the spirit and think up a creative way to nominate their favourite book - something they love so much, they just have to share.
Kids simply submit a creative idea in any format they like. Example:
Write a short story using the characters/setting from your favourite book (feel free to add zombies)
Make a video trailer or a machinima trailer
Write a poem or a song
Illustrate their favourite scene/character
Sew a costume
Make a model
Create an art piece
There are $40,000 worth of prizes to be won. Entries opened 1 March and close 31 May 2012.
Get cracking!