Bookweek productions are accompanied by an Activity Pack including colour-in posters and student review forms!
BONUS!! - You also receive a FREE CD with your booking.

WINNERS NSW Education Department FRATER AWARDS for Excellence in Performances for Schools!!

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In celebration of BOOK WEEK 2010

One wrong move and it may all be over...

Claire never intended this to happen and now she was learning the hard way that a thoughtless word can lead a kid into all kinds of trouble! It was going to take some kind of miracle for her to find her friend Oliver and get back home before anyone realised they were missing. Strangest of all they were missing AT HOME, sucked through the TV screen to a virtual world where anything could happen and nobody is at the controls!

Join Claire on a new musical adventure celebrating BOOK WEEK 2010 as she seeks a way to get back home ACROSS THE STORY BRIDGE. This brand new, original musical is written and performed by the best creative professionals in the industry - coming direct into your school! It will inspire and involve students of all primary ages about books and reading while exploring the importance of considering the impact of our words and deeds on others.

JUMP TO IT! is an adventure story about how books can contribute to our personal development. Featuring a selection of the 2010 CBC Short Listed Books, this fun packed musical is a cautionary tale of getting lost in the digital world, but most of all it is a wonderful celebration of friendship told in a way that will appeal to all primary ages.

NSW DEPT OF EDUCATION AND TRAINING AUTHORISED PERFORMANCE:
“Echelon Productions produce high quality Book Week musicals for Primary students which inspire literacy and reading. Using quirky and imaginative storylines which incorporate annual Book Week themes and CBC Short Listed Books, these highly talented performers energetically entertain enthralled audiences with comedy, singing (wow!), dance, roleplay, storytelling and imaginative escapades - and just the right amount of slapstick! The performance is slick, the acting exceptional and the personalities engaging. Audiences are active participants in a show which takes time to integrate PDHPE issues, English and the Creative Arts. A must for 2010 Book Week festivities in your school!”

**INCORPORATING A SELECTION OF THE CHILDREN’S BOOK COUNCIL 2010 SHORTLISTED BOOKS**

PLUS A BOOK TALK PRIOR TO THE PERFORMANCE ABOUT ALL THE EXCITING BOOKS FEATURED FROM THE 2010 SHORTLIST

Dates: Monday 9th August – Friday 3rd September 2010 (BOOK WEEK: Mon 23rd Aug – Fri 27th Aug 2010) (LITERACY WEEK: TBA) Available: NSW, VIC, QLD, SA, WA - to schools within 1 hour of the CBD Duration: 50 minutes + 10 minutes discussion time Suitability Preps - Grade 6 Location: In your school Price: $4.70 per student (+GST) Minimum: If less than 140 students per performance then a flat fee of $660 (+GST) will apply.

Read some of the testimonials we've received from previous Book Week shows!

	Book Week 2009 'Book Safari' When Claire agreed to go with her new friend Oliver on a weekend expedition it was only meant to be camping in the back yard, but somehow they had ended up a lot further away from home than that! Here they were in a jungle, without supplies, a mobile or a map, and only that crazy compass with a mind of its own...
	Book Week 2008 'Fuel Your Mind' Claire was off before she had time to really understand what she was doing in the race in the first place! She always thought herself to be a particularly ordinary person and yet here she was with the roar of engines all around, behind the wheel of a solar powered racing car!
	Book Week 2007 'READiscover' Sam and Katie HAVE to find their way out of a game they seem unable to escape from! As they bounce headlong through time, hurtling from book to book, the only way out appears to be to find their way back to before the game began! If only they hadn’t ‘READISCOVERED’ that hourglass lost by the mysterious Mrs McTock so long ago….
	Book Week 2006 'Book Now' A grand theft has been committed! The marvellous Miss Marjorie McThwacker, the librarian, is beside herself! A mysterious bandit has stolen the ideas out of every single book in the library and a bizarre figure has been seen desperately fleeing the scene…
	Book Week 2005 'Reading Rocks' Poor Jonno!  All his dreams of becoming a pop star look like dissolving when he gets up to perform his original song only to find that it has disappeared...!  To find it he must go to the mysterious Lost And Found room where the extraordinary Coral Clutter propels him into places where books magically spring to life and his imagination takes control!
	Book Week 2004 'Doorways' When you find a door in your room that wasn't there before, you're bound to ask questions - especially if you are as curious as Jonno Briggs. But what is behind the door? Who is the strange Door Keeper and why is it that every time Jonno asks a question it only leads him deeper into the mystery...?
	Book Week 2003 'Oceans of Stories' When Jonno discovers a mysterious map, he can see clearly that 'X' marks the spot - but what exactly does 'X' mark the spot to?
	Book Week 2002 'Book Feast' What is the recipe for success? What are the ingredients of a good book? What do you get when you cross a cooking program with a story full of unexpected twists and turns?
	Book Week 2001 'A Book Odyssey' Sam is a real couch potato whose obsession with watching television and playing computer games almost becomes her undoing when she falls under the influence of the dastardly Digital Media Coordinator Mr. Philbert Sneed. When circumstances lead Sam into the library however she encounters the one person who can save her - the heroic (and glamorous) Super Librarian.
	Book Week 2000 'The Edge of Tomorrow' What starts off as an ordinary day for Danny is turned totally upside down when he is knocked down by a mysterious figure fleeing from the local library. He finds himself caught in a mystery in which someone has stolen all the ideas out of every book in the library, leaving it full of blank pages.