National Reading Day will be held on Wednesday 3 September 2008 Developed and managed by the Australian Literacy Educators’ Association (ALEA) and the Australian Association for Teaching English (AATE), the day presents an opportunity for students from across Australia to read from five books.

The books selected for 2008 include Diary of a Wombat by Jackie French and illustrated by Bruce Whatley, Truck Dogs by Graeme Base, Someone Like Me by Elaine Forrestal, The Red Shoe by Ursula Dubosarsky, and The Running Man by Michael Gerard-Bauer.

Podcasts of authors reading from the selected books will be available from the National Reading Day website on 3 September 2008.