One Book One Bundy Who Sank the Boat

by Joanne · Published November 21, 2016 · Updated May 17, 2017

One Book One Bundy Who Sank the Boat

One Book One Bundy is an exciting community engagement project initiated by the Bundaberg Family and Baby Network working in collaboration with the Bundaberg Library First Five Forever Project and the broader community of Bundaberg.

This project promotes early language and literacy across an entire year using the book Who Sank the Boat by Pamela Allen. The focus is to raise broad awareness of the importance of early language and literacy development and building relationships between parents and children around literacy.

How to join in

1. Download the resource guide

Download the Resource Guide which has been prepared by the FAB Early Language and Literacy Working Group in partnership with Bundaberg Libraries with sample activities for you if you need inspiration.

2. Borrow a resource kit

Thanks to Bundaberg Regional Libraries, there are 4 x Who Sank the Boat Resource Kits available for borrowing!

These kits were hugely popular last year with schools, child care providers and services accessing them to assist with running activities around the One Book One Book initiative. So please get borrowing…

Each ‘Who Sank the Boat?’ Resource Kits include:-

2 copies of the book

Animal puppets including a mouse, pig and sheep

Animal costumes including a mouse, pig, sheet and/or cow

One kit is available to borrow from both Childers and Gin Gin Libraries, with two kits available from the Bundaberg Library. Get in quick to book a kit now! Phone 4130 4140.

3. Participate!

Run a themed literacy activity around Who sank the Boat! You are encouraged you to run an activity for your child or group of children you work or engage with. Ultimately we would love to see you be creative with the activities you run around Who Sank the Boat book concepts. We want this to be an open, creative and fun process for all.

Don’t forget to use the resources that we provide you and those that can be borrowed from the Library!

4. Share the Fun!

Share the fun!

Take photos of your activities and share them with your community, for example through newsletters and social media
Display artworks within your homes, organisations and business shop windows
Run activities in public spaces inviting families to participate
Create public art activities and display pieces throughout our community (like yarn bombing or large scale animal scenes)
Create social stories by using the hashtags #onebookonebundy and #paintbundyread on social media and share your activities with the community (remember to set your privacy to public for these images)
Post your photos to our social pages on Facebook (Bundaberg Regional Libraries and Wide Bay Kids) and Instagram (@bundyLib; @bundyfirst5forever; @widebaykids) so they can be shared within our community
Email us your photos and we will share them to our social media pages, through community newsletters and the media (there will be prizes up for grabs!).