*It’s Kookaburra Competition
time*
time*ATTENTION students, parents, teachers, librarians. It’s Kookaburra Competition time! Clear your desks and sharpen your tools. We have a writing competition AND an illustration competition. Submissions are invited from students for either or both competitions! Four entries (two writing, two illustration) will win a copy of ‘Kookaburra’. But wait, there’s more …
The class that submits the most entries will win a book prize pack from Walker Books Australia.
Competition opens 17 August. Competition closes 25 September.
Results will be posted here and on social media. Winners will receive their prize via Aust Post.
WRITING COMPETITION:
Many will be familiar with the rhyme/song, ‘Kookaburra Sits in the Old Gum Tree’. This popular song was written by Marion Sinclair in 1932. She wrote it for a competition and won! The rest, as they say, is history.
Here’s the original and one of the popular extra verses.
Kookaburra (the original)
Kookaburra sits in the old gum tree,
Merry merry king of the bush is he.
Laugh, Kookaburra, laugh, Kookaburra,
Gay your life must be!
Kookaburra sits in the old gum tree,
Eating all the gum drops he can see.
Stop Kookaburra, stop Kookaburra
Save some there for me!
And here’s a well-known extra verse … NOT written by Marion Sinclair
Kookaburra sits on electric wire
jumping up and down his pants on fire
Ouch, kookaburra, ouch kookaburra
Hot your pants must be!
We’d like you to write a new verse for this song. Extra points for basing it on any page in ‘Kookaburra’.
Here’s an example for you:
Kookaburra sits in the tall gum tree,
eating all the spiders she can see.
Crunch, kookaburra! Munch, kookaburra!
Eat them all for me.
ILLUSTRATION COMPETITION
Download Tannya’s outline of a kookaburra. Make it simple, make it fancy. Make it beautiful! Use pencils, paints, collage or a mix of all of these to show us how much you love kookaburras. When you’re done, take a photo and email it to Tannya.
Where to send entries:
Send writing entries to Claire at clairesaxby@optusnet.com.au
Send illustration entries to Tannya at harricks@iinet.net.au
PLEASE NOTE: Include the following in your entry submission:
Your first name, your year level and the name of your school.
- Permission for us to post your entry on social media (yes or no)
- Permission for us to post your first name with your entry (yes or no)
- Permission for us to post the name of your school (yes or no)
*** You will be eligible for a prize, even if you say no to all these. We’d just like to share your wonderfulness. ***
Bring on the kookaburras. Kook-kook-kook! Kak-kak-kak!
