It's a time when students swap out their school uniform for capes, crowns and colourful costumes at school book week parades and literary activities.

So I remember dressing in... various costumes and parading through and having the opportunity to meet a lot of my favourite authors right from a young age.

I think I was totally spoilt as an individual about who I got to meet and the kind of book world that I was able to inhabit.

But the event has also stirred criticism from some parents who say they feel pressured to buy or create book parade costumes during a cost-of-living crisis.

In the past couple of years, we've had that backlash about the costumes and...

the parades and the pressure that it puts on families.

And it's been really, really heartening this year to see sort of some counter arguments or counter celebrations to that sort of overwhelm that people are feeling.

And we're seeing everyone remembering that it's about celebrating books.

Yep.

I'm just like, you don't know him.

There's a handful of people, I'm totally fine with people doing this, but like, I was like, who are you going to fly in to have talk about him? You know, everybody at the CF Foundation loved him, and a lot of people did really, really know him, but...

I was just like, this is too important a job.

I'm I'm the only person who can do this.

You know, my mom's not going to do it.

She doesn't like to be the CF events really just like she can't do them.

Well, what is one of your most favorite memories?