By Brittany Riley
Spotlight: Bookends Literacy Assist & Make It!
Studies have shown that children as young as eight months benefit from practising stories, and the library can help with this literary endeavour! We’re looking for children to participate in our Bookends Literacy Assist Programme. After selecting books from the shelves, participants join adults for one-on-one reading sessions in 20-minute blocks. This free programme can help a child’s lifelong reading journey. Call us for more information.
Make It! will be CD photo boxes on Wednesday, August 13 at 3:30pm. Come try something new! Bookings are essential for these $3 sessions. Phone us on (02) 6740 2190 to reserve your place.
Spotlight: Graphic novels
Across from the young adult section, you’ll find our tubs of graphic novels!
These pictorial stories are a swiftly growing genre, and we have classics like Tintin, Asterix, DC, plus many new, colourful titles suitable for tweens and teens. Our Hoopla platform also stocks a healthy range of titles to devour.
If you’re trying to get back into reading, these action-packed books might be just what you’re looking for!
Spotlight: New books
Theory & Practice (AFA DEK) is the seventh novel of award-winning writer Michelle de Kretser.
It’s 1986, and ‘beautiful, radical ideas’ are in the air. A young woman arrives in Melbourne to research the novels of Virginia Woolf. In bohemian St Kilda she meets artists, activists, students—and Kit. He claims to be in a ‘deconstructed’ relationship, and they become lovers. Meanwhile, her work on the Woolfmother falls into disarray…
From paediatrician Dr Leila Masson comes Children’s Health A-Z (649 MAS).
In this book, you’ll find not only practical advice on managing common childhood illnesses like colds, rashes and allergies naturally, but also newly added chapters dedicated to understanding and supporting your child’s mental health.
New to fantasy shelves is Daughter of Chaos (FSF WEB) by A. S. Webb.
In Ancient Greece, the Gods demand the ultimate tribute – food, treasure, even human sacrifice. Until heroine Danae finds herself on the winding roads of heroes and demi-gods after eating a golden apple. Danae’s destiny is not to fight beasts. She will hunt the Gods. She will drag them screaming from Olympus . . .
Austin Kleon said, “There’s magic in being surrounded by books,” so come to 291 Conadilly Street!
‘Theory & Practice’ is the seventh novel of award-winning writer Michelle de Kretser, and now available at Gunnedah Shire Library.
