Book Week
24 Sep 2026
This year’s Book Week theme, ‘Symphony of Stories’, was truly remarkable. We had our annual Book Week performance by Meerkat Productions.
For K-2, the play was from the book ‘Dear Broccoli’, by Jo Dabrowski. It was forty minutes long with a question and answer session. Dear Broccoli is a book and play about a child called Frank who dislikes broccoli. He writes letters to his broccoli and it strangely replies commenting on its nutrients, soothing skills and how good it is. The conversations go on. When the letters finally end, Frank’s brother is starting a brand new letter to a carrot! This mysterious fun book perfectly suits the book week theme this year. During the answer session, they all got a chance to answer the questions.
For 3-6 the play for them was ‘Inked’, by Karen Wasson. All the students were exceptional listeners and some of them even got to go on stage and perform with meerkat productions! Inked is about a boy called Sid who finds an alive octopus! The octopus wants to go to Rome and Sid doesn’t like the annoying octopus AT ALL! Sid also wants to go to an art school called Lindfield but he doesn' t have the right amount of money to get in. Later, the octopus and Sid share a friendly bond and go to a talent show called ‘Show Us What You Got’ But, there are no animals or people under twelve years old allowed in the talent show so Sid asks his friend Dee for any clever ideas. Dee suggests that Otto the octopus should dress up or disguise Sid and Sid should just mouth-sinc to Otto’s opera. Otto is a superb Italian Opera singer and that's why he really wants to go to the Opera in Rome. After all the rounds, Sid gets disqualified. In the following year, Otto gets famous for his voice and they earn enough money to go to Linfield with his friends.
The performance was astonishing and we would absolutely love to see more incredible Book Week performances next year!
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