 Hi everyone, my name is Steph. This is Little Bookish Teacher and welcome to my plans for this month. So August is MS Readathon Month here in Australia and I have decided to participate. I'm very excited. I have my hoodie, which is great because I like to wear hoodies in the evening when I'm reading. I thought I would share with you some of the books that I'm planning on reading during the month because you will see them in upcoming videos. So for those of you who don't know, the MS Readathon is a readathon that has been hosted here for a very, very long time. And I remember doing it as a kid. We would nominate ourselves and how many books we were planning on reading and you could raise money for the MS Society. And all of the money raised goes to support children and families living with MS. It goes into support and care, goes into special events for them. It goes into speech therapy and physio and also things like the MS family camps and fun days which gives those families the opportunity to do those really fun activities with care and support from the community. So I am really excited to be participating. It is still mostly a kid's thing, but you know what? They said that adults could sign up this year and I didn't realize that. So that's what I'm planning on doing and I'm really excited about it. I do have a fundraising page. I will leave it linked down below. If you would like to donate, please don't feel any pressure too. I am very, very happy at the end of this readathon to donate the rest of the money to this really great cause and also to celebrate a love of reading because that is the other big push for this readathon is to encourage kids to read and to read more. So I have a lovely stack of kids picture books, middle grade, junior fiction, young adult books that I'm planning on reading this month. Most of these are review copies. So they do have due dates by the time I have to read them, but I thought I would share them with you so you know what's coming up. The first one is Baby Day by Jane Godwin, Devina Bell and Freya Blackwood which are a dynamite combo. This is a really, really gorgeous little board book for very small children about first birthdays. There is also Two Sparrow Heads in a Lonely Sky by Rebecca Lim. Rebecca Lim is an incredible Australian author. I've read her books in the past and really enjoyed them and I'm so excited to see she's got a new book out. One I haven't heard of is Lily Half Moon, The Magic Gems by Xavier Bonet. This is a graphic novel. So I'm super excited to dive into this cause you guys know I love my kids graphic novels. There is Never a Hero by Vanessa Lin which is the second book in the Only a Monster series and I haven't read book one yet but I am planning on reading both of them this month and there will be a vlog of me reading them. So you'll get to hear about both of them and I'm so excited. There is also A Friend for Ruby by Sophie Laguna and Mark McBride who do these really awesome, very, very quirky picture books together. I love these illustrations cause they're just so different to anything out there at the moment. And the last of the review copies is Last Place Lin by YChim and Frida Chu and this is all about persistence even if you're doing something or trying something that's new to you. So those are my review copies from Alan and Evelyn. So thank you very much to them. I cannot wait to dive into them. And then a couple of other books that I am planning on reading this month. This book, Fingershare Deadly, A Celebration of Black Excellence by Cory Tut with illustrations by Molly Hunt. I'm so excited to dive into this. I've had a flip through already. It is broken up by different fields. So sports and the arts and music and whatnot. And then it celebrates the amazing Aboriginal and First Nations people who represent in that field. I can't wait. I also have The Heartbeat of the Land by Kathy Freeman with Coral Bass and Tanya Harris because I cannot believe I have not read this book yet. This is coming. I'm so excited. Continuing my First Nations theme, My Culture and Me by Greg Dries. Again, I've read Greg Dries' books in the past, but not this one specifically. I can't wait to dive into it. And I am hoping, Fingers Crossed, hoping that I can get to Evie and Rhino by Nero De McMullen and August and Jones by Pip Harry. These are the last two books I have to read from the short list for 2023. I'm hoping I can get to this before the awards are announced. That is my plan, keep your fingers crossed. So they are going on my list as well. I will leave links to all of those books down below. So if you would like to check out more information, you can. As I said, I will leave a link to my fundraising page for the MS Readathon as well, as well as links to the MS Readathon page so you can find out more information about the Readathon if you're interested. I hope that wherever you're on the world, you're staying safe and healthy and I will see you in my next video. Thanks so much for watching. Bye everyone.