Students, teachers and the wider community participated in Book Week last week from August 19 to 25, celebrating books, authors and illustrators to promote the love of reading.

Schools throughout the region hosted Book Week parades for students and teachers to dress up as their favourite book characters, seeing plenty of colourful and inventive costumes hit the school yard.

Scroll through the photos below!

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Noah becomes Spider-Man for the day.
We secured a rare sighting of Wally (Hudson) from book series ‘Where’s Wally?’.
Nate dresses up as Kid YouTuber.
These two were Bad Guys for the day!
Oscar rocks his SpongeBob outfit, complete with jellyfish.
Elroy is a convincing Patrick from TV show SpongeBob.
Linda from Upper Plenty Primary School dresses up as a bee whilst her students learn about life cycles.
School companion dog Lily is the bad tempered ladybug.
Jordynne dresses up as Russell from ‘Up!’ at The Bush Bus.
Judah dresses as Monkey D. Luffy, Gear 5 Sun god, complete with gomu gomu no mi fruit.
Angus is ready to save the day as Batman.
Marionette from Five Nights at Freddy’s.
Spottedleaf from Warrior Cats.