Every year a picture book, written and illustrated by an Australian author and illustrator, is read simultaneously in libraries, schools, childcare centres, family homes, bookshops and many other places around the county. Today our school gathered to listen to Mrs Claxton read 'The Truck Cat'.

Some cats are house cats.  Some are apartment cats.  But Tinka is a truck cat.  Tinka lives everywhere.

With his human, Yacoub, Tinka travels roads wide anad narrow, near and distant. But no matter where they go, home feels very far away. When Tinka anad Yacoub are unexpectedly seperated, they are determined to find their way back to each other - and, in doing so, might find more than they expected ...