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The Guardian - AU
The Guardian - AU
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Kelly Burke

Australian Book Week: the agony and the ecstasy of kids’ costume design in lockdown

Book Week brings out the best in some parents.
Book Week brings out the best in some parents Composite: Supplied

If home schooling and kids’ cabin fever isn’t enough to compel parents in many parts of the country to turn to the bottle in the age of Covid, this week may prove the tipping point.

It’s Book Week again and the excuse of a pandemic lockdown won’t wash. The annual school tradition of dressing offspring up as characters in their favourite books – however loosely the definition of book may be – is compulsory.

In the interests of provoking parental anguish and feelings of inadequacy, Guardian Australia has scoured social media to prove just how imaginative, innovative and nifty in the crafts department other parents can be.

Here’s just a few:

Have you done better? Have you done worse? Share your Book Week triumphs (or other) in the Comments.

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