She did it! We did it! What a day.

686,324 people registered to hear The Cow Tripped Over the Moon as the ALIA National Simultaneous Storytime title. It was read at 6,129 locations. That’s more than 150,000 than any previous NSS title.

I went to the Royal Children’s Hospital and read to patients there, as well as some local schools who came in for the morning. Here is the video of my read.

Many thanks to ALIA, Scholastic Australia, my editor Rebecca Young, Laura Wood of course, and my wife Tamsin and four kids. What a thrill it was. Unfortunately, Laura was in the UK and couldn’t be there to receive the glory she deserves. We have another title together at the end of the year, another nursery rhyme back story.

Here are some photos from the RCH, and around the country.

This is the winner of the 2011 Nobel Prize for Physics, ANU Vice Chancellor Brian Schmidt, READING MY BOOK!!! He says the astrophysics are sound.

Tony Wilson at the Ella Latham Auditorium, RCH, Melbourne. Credit: Alvin Aquino/RCH Creative Studio

Childcare specialist Anthony Morris – Moon attempt 1, North Fitzroy ,Melbourne

Jamie Kelly and Carmela Carey, reading a Braille version for Vision Australia

Tony Wilson, with Polly, Alice, Tamsin, Jack and Harry.

Captains Starlight with Tony Wilson

Older students helping the littlies at Newington College, NSW

Heather Wellard at ALIA, Sydney, NSW

Springfield Library in Queensland

Ramsgate PS, NSW

Parkes Shire Council – dressing up a storm, NSW

Trinity Catholic School, Murrumburrah

Olive Black series author Alex Lee, reading at Auburn Primary, Vic

SBS newsreader Lee Lin Chin reads in Sydney

Shoalhaven Libraries. Great animated stuff!