 Hi everyone, my name is Steph. This is Little Bookish Teacher and welcome or welcome back to my channel. Today I am going to start sharing some of my children's picture bookshelves which sort of start over here and then I have another full bookcase on the other side of my couch and I sort of started filming this bookshelf tour a little while ago when I did a tour of my First Nations Indigenous Picture Books which are all across here and I thought what I would do every now and then is sort of dive into my bookshelves by author. I do organise my picture books by author's surname because I have so many of them it's a lot easier to find things when I need them because quite often I'm jumping in and out of things all the time as I'm either recommending them to you guys or using them for work or whatnot. So we're going to be kicking off this bookshelf tour with authors whose surname begin with A which is the first little section just down here. One of the first books on this shelf is The Rainbow Hijab by Amron Abdi and this is a book about Amira who loses her very favourite hijab and she's obviously very sad by this and spends a lot of time looking for it. It is an absolutely gorgeous book. I also have Hold on Heart by Sarah Acton. There is Busy Beaks by Sarah Allen which is an absolutely gorgeous non-fiction book all about Australian birds and then the bulk of my A shelf is actually Pamela Allen who is a very famous very popular long-standing Australian children's author who wrote things like Who Sank the Boat? Is Your Grandmother a Goanna? Shh little mouse. Grandpa and Thomas and Grandpa and Thomas and the Green Umbrella both of which were CBCA. I think they were both book of the year you know one with Grandpa and Thomas was Book of the Year and Grandpa and Thomas and the Green Umbrella was shortlisted. There's Fancy That. I wish I had a pirate suit which is such a fun little story. Inside Mary Elizabeth's house Herbert and Harry, Daisy Allsorts about a very clever dog, a lion in the night, the bear's lunch, black dog, Bertie and the bear, Mr Archimedes Bath which does have some very cheeky pictures in it which is quite a good math science text because it's all about capacity. The Pear and the Pear Tree, Waddle Giggle Gargle which I absolutely love because this is about a family who have to travel to and from their house to their various locations like work and home in the library every day passing under the tree of a magpie who has just given birth and so is swooping and so they come up with many many different ways to try and stop the magpie from swooping them as they walk and past. There's Clippity Clock, there's also Belinda and Pamela Ellen also wrote the Mr McGee books so I've got Mr McGee and the Big Bag of Bread, Mr McGee and the Perfect Nest, Mr McGee and the Biding Flea, great rhyming texts and also the original Mr McGee. Now some of these books are quite old and so they are probably a little bit out of date or maybe no longer as PC as they were say 20 years ago but they are really great rhyming texts. If you're going to use them just make sure you read through them beforehand to make sure they're appropriate for your context but you know some really lovely stories in there. Highly recommend Waddle Giggle Gargle, it's also great for Automata Pia. And then there are only two more books in my A section so there is One Woolly Wombat by Kerry Argent which is quite a popular children's counting book. It does feature all sorts of Australian animals as well as short little rhymes to go along with the number and then there is also Sonam and the Silence by Eddie Ears which is another really gorgeous book and is also beautifully illustrated. So this one is set in Taliban ruled Afghanistan and it's about our character Sonam hearing music and finding music in a walled garden which is a very big change to what she's used to. This one is very much like a fable and is just a wonderful read. So that is my A section and I will hopefully be back next month with my Bs. My B section is actually quite large because it takes up the rest of this shelf with the A's and then at least two full other little squares so that one could be quite a long one or I might have to break it into two parts. If you'd like to hear more information about any of the specific books that were mentioned in this video feel free to let me know in the comments. I'm happy to include them in videos in the future, otherwise feel free to leave any emoji that starts with the letter A. Be creative, see if you can find something. I hope that we're on the world just staying safe and healthy and I will see you in my next video. Bye everyone.