The Nelson Juniors held their popular and hugely successful Scholastic book fair last week.

Highlights from the week included a visit from local author Robyn Prokop, who read her picture book ‘Dozer the Fire Cat’ and talked about the process of publishing a book.

We also had visiting teachers who read their favourite stories to the children and a bookmark competition ran throughout the week.

The week ended with an animal character dress-up parade followed by a shared morning tea.

Winners of the dress-up parade were: Tanya Beatson 1st place, Aqueelah Petrie 2nd place and Noah McLean 3rd place.

Bookmark competition winners were: Mahallah Senior, Jairus McLean and Lainee Petrie.

The book fair was well supported by parents and resulted in many donations and money raised to purchase books for our library.