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Library Spotlight: Thursday, 23 September, 2021

Spotlight: School holiday programme!

The library is holding school holiday activities three days a week, on Tuesday, Wednesday and Thursdays.  Book buddies up to seven years meet in the mornings at 10:30am to enjoy stories and some handicrafts, while older children 8- 12 years can meet in the afternoons at 3:30pm for an hour of book based fun! 

The theme for the holidays is Fish/Under the Oceans and there’s lots of fishy fun to be had. 

Morning sessions are free, while there’s a small charge of three dollars a child for the afternoon sessions.

Parents taking their children on holidays can request a bag of activities to take with them!

Spotlight: Children’s Book Week colouring in competition

Because the library has been shut due to Covid stay at home rules, the closing date for the Children’s Book Week Colouring in competition has been extended to the end of September!

So dust off the crayons, textas, pencils or paints, and collect one of the colouring in templates from the library.   There are three age groups – under eight, 8-15 years, and over 15, so there’s scope for the young at heart too!

Winners will be announced in October, and prizes are library goodie bags!

Spotlight: New books!

As is fitting for the school holidays, plenty of new titles have been added to the junior library, and several of them are to do with books and the power of reading!

There’s The Travelling Bookshop: Mim and the Baffling Bully by Australian author Katrina Nannestad.

Mim and her family live in an amazing bookshop that has the ability to travel where it’s most needed.  It’s also bigger inside than it looks from the outside, which gives Mim’s Dad the ability to give people the right book, while Mim herself makes friends at school, and tries to help Willemina who is being bullies by Gerda.  A lovely read by an award winning author!

In The Magical Bookshop by Katja Frixe, Clara faces some problems – her best friend is moving away and someone wants to shut down Mrs Owl’s bookshop, where characters from books step from the pages and give advice. Look out for the cat who speaks in rhymes and a mysterious mirror!

The book includes some discussion questions. 

For those children who enjoy facts rather than fiction, there’s Discover the Dinosaurs of the World and Discover the Animals of the Oceans.  Both books are by Garry Fleming and are in a ‘lift the flap’ format with bright colourful pictures and enough information to satisfy beginning readers.  

All these books are available for collection and delivery – so happy reading!