St Joseph’s costumes for the Book Week Parade.
On Wednesday, August 20, the second-ever Book Week Parade marched around the town with a large group of kids dressed as their favourite characters.
The march started at Railway Square and filled the streets with all sorts of characters from Batman to Tinkerbell.
This follows the success of last year’s parade, which saw success despite the very short notice. More time to organise and promote the event has paid off since it was so successful; organisers are already considering making it annual.
The event was hosted by Junee Shire Council, including Emma Hedlund, who said the effort of all involved has paid off immensely.
“It was a great success. We had over 300 children attend. We had the three main schools in Junee in attendance, so St. Joseph’s, Junee North, and Junee Public. We had Junee Preschool students attend, and we also had students come in from Illabo school,” she said.
“It’s wonderful to see all the schools getting involved and to see the event grow because book week is always a special week, and I think it’s really important to promote literacy and learn learning through books. It’s a wonderful event to be able to celebrate as a community and see everyone enjoy.
“This is our main celebration, but we celebrate Book Week throughout the week in the Junee Library. As part of this year’s book week parade, we had the Council provide a free barbecue to all the school students down at the recreation centre, and we projected an online story for the children to enjoy while they had their free barbecue as well.
“Wonderful. The kids really enjoyed coming down for the barbecue, watching the online story, and it was another way to capture book week and celebrate the fun in reading.
“We had everyone from dinosaurs and dragons, through to Minions, Harry Potter, and princesses. There were some great creative costumes, really highlighting unique characters in different books, which was great to see as well.
“We were very happy with the success and the community’s involvement this year, and we intend to make it an annual event every year going forward.”
– Robyn Atherton
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