
Australian authors and personalities read some of our favourite picture books.
To celebrate CBCA Book Week, we are sharing these incredible read-aloud videos. Will you join us for a story?Â
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Andrew Daddo reads Where the Wild Things Are by Maurice Sendak
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Jamila Rizvi reads Bluey: Bob Bilby
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Hamish Blake reads No One Likes a Fart by Zoë Foster Blake and Adam Nickel
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Teresa Palmer reads Ten Minutes to Bed: Little Unicorn by Rhiannon Fielding and Chris ChattertonÂ
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Kathy Lette reads Where's Spot? by Eric Hill
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Paul Kennedy reads I Love You Dad With The Hungry Caterpillar by Eric Carle
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Julia Gillard reads Bluey: The Beach
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Fiona McIntosh reads There's a Hippopotamus on Our Roof Eating Cake by Hazel Edwards and Deborah Niland
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Zoë Foster Blake reads her latest book, Back to Sleep with illustrations by Mike Jacobsen
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Frank Woodley reads We Love You, Magoo by Briony Stewart
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Turia Pitt reads Ten Sleepy Sheep by Renee Treml
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John Williamson and illustrator Simon McLean read their book, Old Man Emu
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Sam Thaiday reads Bluey: My Dad is Awesome
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Monica McInerney reads Kissed by the Moon by Alison Lester
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Paul Kelly reads Who Sank the Boat? by Pamela Allen
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Josh Pyke reads his book, Lights Out, Leonard
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Greg Fleet reads Harry the Dirty Dog by Gene Zion and Margaret Bloy Graham
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Richard Harris reads Where is the Green Sheep? by Mem Fox and Judy Horacek
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Judy Nunn reads It's Not Scribble to Me by Kate Richie and Jedda Robaard
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John Wood reads Bluey: The Creek
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Nicole Alexander reads Ten Little Fingers and Ten Little Toes by Mem Fox and Helen Oxenbury
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Morris Gleitzman reads Hairy Maclary from Donaldson's Dairy by Lynley Dodd
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Kate Ritchie reads her book, I Just Couldn't Wait to Meet You
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Tristan Bancks reads Finding François by Gus Gordon
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