National Simultaneous Storytime - The Truck Cat at Yeppoon Library

National Simultaneous Storytime at Livingstone Libraries: The Truck Cat

📅 When: Wednesday 21st May 2025
⏰ Time: 9:30 AM - 10:30 AM
📍 Where: Yeppoon Library
🎟️ FREE EVENT

Join us for National Simultaneous Storytime (NSS) at Livingstone Libraries as we read The Truck Cat — a heartwarming story about cats, humans, and the journey to find home.

National Simultaneous Storytime (NSS) is held annually by the Australian Library and Information Association (ALIA).

Every year a picture book, written and illustrated by an Australian author and illustrator, is read in libraries, schools, pre-schools, childcare centres, family homes, bookshops and many other places around the country. Now in its 24th successful year, it is a colourful, vibrant, fun event that aims to promote the value of reading and literacy, using an Australian children's book that explores age-appropriate themes, and addresses key learning areas of the National Curriculum for Foundation to Year 6.

The Truck Cat is a story about cats and humans, immigration and identity, and homes lost and found. Along with his human, Yacoub, Tinka travels roads wide and narrow, near and distant. But no matter how much they travel, home feels very far away – for both of them. When Tinka and Yacoub are  unexpectedly separated, they are determined to find their way back to each other – and, in doing so, might find more than they expected …

Don’t miss out on this fun event to celebrate reading and storytelling with your community