Cook Shire Council Mayor Robyn Holmes chooses her favourite Book Week costumes at Endeavour Christian College. Photo: Supplied.
When you need a break from the real world, immersing yourself in the fantasy world of books can be a joyous escape, especially when you get to become your favourite character.
Cooktown and Weipa schools embraced Book Week 2025, dressing up as their favourite princesses, superheroes and everything in between.
Classrooms became physical representations of students’ beloved books as they decorated the walls with posters and bookmarks, with students of various year levels coming together for shared reading sessions.
Endeavour Christian College welcomed Cook Shire Council Mayor Robyn Holmes to their special book week parade, who spoke about her favourite books as a child, and judged the best-dressed primary and secondary student competition.
“It was an absolute delight to see the students arrive in their imaginative costumes, proudly embodying characters from their stories,” principal Jenny Nelson said.
“Watching children connect their love of reading to dress-ups made their engagement with stories visible in a powerful way; they just weren’t reading about characters, they were living them.
“Their character costumes displayed students’ enthusiasm, and highlighted how deeply books capture imagination and inspire confidence.”
