Students at Huntly Primary School read all about an Alpaca named Macca on Wedenesday.
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They joined with other students around the country in National Simultaneous Storytime.
National Simultaneous Storytime aims to have one million children reading the same book at the same time as a
This year's book was Matt Cosgrove's Alpacas with Maracas.
Huntly Primary School grade 2 teacher Morgan Bamford said more than 200 students joined in the story.
"It was our first time doing National Simultaneous Storytime," she said. "We have a few copies of this book in the library and they always choose a book by Australian illustrators and authors, which is great."
Huntly students buddied up to read the book with the grade 5-6 classes helping the Prep and grade 1 student.
Ms Bamford said more and more families were realising the importance of reading books to children when they are very young.
"It's something we drill into parents in the first few weeks of prep, how important it is to read to a child," she said.
"We have a reading night in term one and this year our principal talked about the figures around how many words kids learn by reading for 20 minutes every night."
Goldfields Libraries also participated in the National Simultaneous Storytime with two baby alpacas visiting Bendigo.
"We run 30 storytimes each week of school term for preschool aged children across our nine branch libraries and six library agencies,' Goldfields Library programs and events co-ordinator Tammy Higgs said.
"Approximately 60 children attended our Bendigo session, along with two baby alpacas.
"Our chief executive Mark Hands read the NSS story Alpacas with Maracas. The encouragement and promotion of early literacy is a key focus for us as we know what a difference it can make in children's lives."