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Speaker 1: And Amanda jam Nation.

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Speaker 2: Down to the jonesy De matter of arms for the

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Speaker 2: pub Test. Book Week twenty twenty four in Australia will

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Speaker 2: be celebrated from August seventeen to twenty three.

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Speaker 3: That's a whole week used to be maybe a book

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Speaker 3: day would have been. Okay.

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Speaker 2: Book weeks are literal, maybe literally.

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Speaker 3: There is you know, a whole variety of events, but

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Speaker 3: sometimes they involve craft kids having to bring in a

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Speaker 3: book of course, the dress up day some schools of

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Speaker 3: banded kids from distressing as superheroes and things. They want

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Speaker 3: them to properly reference books. They're ready to bring the

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Speaker 3: book to show. That's a lot of pressure, isn't it.

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Speaker 3: And some parents are saying, hey, it's too much. Please

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Speaker 3: just let the kids enjoy themselves. You're just loading up parents,

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Speaker 3: not the kids.

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Speaker 2: What if you went as Homer but you were there

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Speaker 2: for Homer's iliad.

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Speaker 3: But dressed as Homer Simpson. Yeah, years ago a friend

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Speaker 3: of mine at her school, a kid just walked around

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Speaker 3: in a little suit. Bill Clinton had written a book

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Speaker 3: that year. So you know, you can be creative, but

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Speaker 3: do parents have time to be creative? This is exhausting

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Speaker 3: as one parent here said, it just makes our life

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Speaker 3: so much harder. So what do you And also, let's

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Speaker 3: get kids to read books that spend our time and

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Speaker 3: money on costumes. How do you feel does Bookweek still

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Speaker 3: past the pub test?

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Speaker 1: Well?

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Speaker 4: Not book Week. I think it should be book Gay.

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Speaker 4: I think it's so much fun for the kids. It's

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Speaker 4: fasters learning and understanding. Yeah. So when we have it

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Speaker 4: for my data, yeah, I reg it's a fantastic idea.

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Speaker 1: It's a great way for goods to get up and

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Speaker 1: look like their favorite character, doesn't matter whether it's Lui, Superman,

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Speaker 1: prove there.

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Speaker 4: It's really good fun. I love it.

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Speaker 1: I think it absolutely does pass the pub test because

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Speaker 1: everyone bangs on about decreasing literacy levels in kids.

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Speaker 4: For the students, this is.

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Speaker 1: The time for books to shine and to be made

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Speaker 1: a hero. And the problem with Bookweek is for parents

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Speaker 1: who try to make instagram worthy costumes and have to

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Speaker 1: outdo each other. You can do it simply.

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Speaker 2: Doing it for the gram and that's the problem. You

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Speaker 2: know what I say? You know what I say, stay

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Speaker 2: in school on mins school.

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Speaker 3: I see my sister in law who's a teacher's aide,

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Speaker 3: and the length she goes she dresses up. She encourages

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Speaker 3: all the kids teachers work really hard for that week too.

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Speaker 3: They really do so, crossing a dress