Library Lovers Day & Banjo Paterson

Just out of interest - you may like to know that February 17th will be the 150th birthday of 'Banjo' Paterson, one of our best-loved bush poets.  As our new curriculum seems to have more of a focus on poetry it may be a day to introduce our students to some of his works.

Friday is Library Lovers Day (and Valentine's Day) and here in the Library we are pleased to be able to facilitate some meetings between books and readers in the hopes of seeing romance bloom.

We are organising Blind Dates with books.  We have lots of mysterious wrapped up parcels of eager books just waiting to be borrowed and enjoyed.  These will be on display on Friday and can be borrowed all day.  There are lots of Fiction, along with some Non-Fiction books that wanted to get in on the action as well.  All sorts of genres and information.
So come in and give it a try - what have you got to lose? 

Just for general information and pre-planning there are a number of days throughout the year that promote READING.  Some of these are;

World Read Aloud Day                           March 5th
National Simultaneous Storytime        May 21st
Indigenous Literacy Day                        September 3rd
Picture Book Month                                November

The last one is probably my favourite - love those picture books!!  So if you have any ideas of things we could do to celebrate those dates, come and see me.

I am looking for people to write brief book reviews on books they have read and enjoyed from here, so if any of your students are interested, that would be wonderful.

Have an awesome week everyone!

National Simultaneous Storytime 2012



Today is the day. The day when the same book is read at the same time to as many people around the country as possible. This years story is 'The Very Cranky Bear', written and illustrated by Nick Bland, who just so happens to be a NT author.  



Shelagh, reading to the masses.



After previewing the book, we decided that the students at the High School were a bit too old for the book, so Shelagh went down to the Child Care Centre to read with the young children there. Such an important job she had to do. Fostering a love of reading is one of our goals, and the younger you can get people to enjoy reading, the more likely they are to read as they get older.

After reading it a number of times to the children at the Child Care Centre, Shelagh had to head back to the library here to continue working. She promises to be back at the Child Care Centre every Friday for afternoon story time.

There is a sequel to this book, 'The Very Hungry Bear'. Now if Bear was cranky in the first book because of lack of sleep, imagine what he would be like with lack of food. Looking forward to reading that one.

I must say too, before I post this, the flow of the book was brilliant. It was easy to read aloud and the rhyming sucked the kids in straight away. Definately a book to have at home for your young kids or grandchildren. Shelagh is already looking for prices so that she can get some to send to her Grand kids that are spread out across the country.