Bathurst Library held its annual Booklink reading program presentation last week to coincide with Book Week.
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The awards encourage children to read as many books as they can between December and July.
This year 154 participants have read a staggering 28,040 books, the library’s most successful Booklink result in the 14-year history of the program.
The competition was open to children aged up to 15 with younger participants having the books read to them as a way of encouraging a love of reading and learning.
Awards were presented in a number of categories including encouragement, age group, school and the best reader awards.
Bathurst mayor Gary Rush, was on hand to present the participants with their awards.
Booklink will return to Bathurst in December and run through to July 31, 2017.
Age winners
- Age 1: Josephine Weber, 300 books read.
- Age 2: Adam Abdalla, 1000 books read.
- Age 3: Emily Rose Curry, 620 books read.
- Age 4: Christian Weber, 300 books read.
- Age 5: Alexander Clements, 520 books read.
- Age 6: Jinn Ling, 640 books read.
- Age 7: Bronte Elbourne, 1200 books read.
- Age 8 Jedd Ling, 700 books read.
- Age 9: Omar Abdalla, 1260 books read.
- Age 10: Abigail Clements, 540 books read.
- Age 11: Bilal Said, 500 books read.
- Age 12: Stella Hall, 100 books read; Caitlyn Windeyer, 100 books read.
- Age 13: Jack Kiernan, 120 books read.
- Age 15: Sarah Cole, 320 books read.
School awards
- Pre-school: Mitchell Early Learning, 1760 books read.
- Primary school: Bathurst Public School, 6380 books read.
- High school: The Scots School, 140 books read.
- Rural school: O'Connell Public School, 2520 books read.
Encouragement
- Age 5: Tasmia Shahrin.
- Age 9: Kade Franze.
Overall winners
- 1st :Scarlett Smith (age 5), 1660 books read.
- 2nd: Yusuf Abdalla (age 11), 1280 books read.
