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💙🐦 AURA PARKER’S BOWERBIRD SERIES — LITERACY, STEM & ART!

Written and illustrated by Australian creator Aura Parker, Bowerbird Blues, Bowerbird Brood, Bowerbird Bloom and Bowerbird Brave beautifully combine storytelling, nature, STEM learning and art. 📚✨

🔎 My granddaughters and I especially love the “Can You Find?” challenges in the detailed endpapers — searching together adds another layer of fun, observation and discovery to reading.

🐺 And coming in November — Wolf Baby! Another beautifully illustrated story with wonderful details to discover that left us feeling warm and fuzzy.

🎄 A wonderful Australian series to consider for Christmas, or borrow from your school or public library.

📚 For more information, contact Charlotte at Schoolworks Bairnsdale.
Text & illustrations © Aura Parker
Published by Scholastic Australia by @librarieschangelives

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📚✨ THE GOOD DECISION — A VERY GOOD DECISION!

From the award-winning creative team behind Dear Broccoli comes another wonderful Australian picture book!
🥦 Dear Broccoli, written by Jo Dabrowski and illustrated by Cate James, was the 2026 CBCA Shadow Judging Picture Book of the Year winner — chosen by young readers who read, discuss and judge the shortlisted books before selecting their winner. 👏📚

Now Jo and Cate are back with The Good Decision — an engaging story that gives young readers plenty to think about, notice and discuss.

I recently read this beautiful book with my granddaughters, and seeing the story through their eyes made me appreciate even more the wonderful detail and humour within Cate’s illustrations. ❤️

📖 It would be a GOOD DECISION to contact Charlotte at Schoolworks Bairnsdale to find out more — and remember to shop local and support independent bookshops.

📚 Or borrow a copy from your school or public library. Libraries Change Lives. by @librarieschangelives

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📚☀️ PLAN EARLY FOR SUMMER READING!

Planning ahead for Christmas and the summer holidays? 🎄📚 It’s a wonderful time to discover new stories and encourage children to keep reading over summer.

🏆📓 And speaking of notebooks… congratulations to Nick Daicos on his Brownlow Medal win! Nick has spoken about journalling every night since around age 16. Perhaps there really is something in putting your thoughts, goals and dreams down on paper! 🖤🤍✍️

Our latest Reading for Kids and Teens (RFKaT) video features:

🌿 On a Bushwalk — Andrea Rowe & Hannah Sommerville
Published by Hardie Grant Children’s Publishing

📖 A Bigger Book — written & illustrated by Hannah Sommerville
Published by Hardie Grant Children’s Publishing (Bright Light)

Plus a little extra bookish fun with colourful May Gibbs and Hello Kitty and Friends notebooks! ✏️📚

As we look ahead to Public Libraries Victoria’s Big Summer Read:

📚 Borrow from your school or public library
🛍️ Support your local bookshops
📖 Contact Schoolworks Bairnsdale for more information, books and reading recommendations.

Celebrating Australian books, authors, illustrators and publishers. 💛

Because stories are meant to be shared.

🏆📓 And speaking of notebooks… congratulations to Nick Daicos on his Brownlow Medal win! Nick has spoken about journalling every night since around age 16. Perhaps there really is something in putting your thoughts, goals and dreams down on paper! 🖤🤍✍️ by @librarieschangelives

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🎄📚 A VERY CRANKY CHRISTMAS — A JOYFUL CHRISTMAS READ!

I absolutely loved reading A Very Cranky Christmas with young children. ❤️

When Santa gets the sniffles, Zebra, Lion, Reindeer and Sheep think Bear would make a wonderful replacement.

There’s just one problem… 🐻
Bear would rather be left alone to read his book! 📖

But his clever friends know exactly how to appeal to Bear’s favourite pastime — reading! 📖 They cleverly turn each part of his Santa outfit into something just for him: a reading hat, a cosy red reading suit, a lovely reading beard and shiny reading gumboots. Before Bear quite knows what has happened, his quiet day with a book has turned into a Christmas adventure.

As the rhyming story unfolds, Bear discovers something rather lovely — the unexpected joy that can come from giving to others. 🎁

And joyful is exactly how I felt when I finished this book.

My granddaughter and I even tried to choose our favourite page — not an easy task! Nick Bland’s bright, expressive illustrations bring so much humour, colour and personality to the story.

🎅🐻 A cranky Bear, some very clever friends and a wonderfully happy Christmas ending.

📚 A Very Cranky Christmas
✍️🎨 Text & illustrations: Nick Bland
📖 Publisher: Scholastic Press, an imprint of Scholastic Australia

📚 Look for it at your local library. by @librarieschangelives

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25 days ago

For library staff who won’t be at next week’s Public Libraries Victoria conference, you may like to attend this Treaty webinar for organizations, Gellung Warl @firstpeoplesvic by @librarieschangelives

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Congratulations @portphilliplibraries on the reopening of the newly refurbished middle Park library. Great to see both new Minister for Local Government @timrichardsonmp and mayor @alex.makin.au in attendance to celebrate this great development. And kudos to the Middle Park Library Action Committee for keeping the faith to ensure the community retained this vital resource #publiclibrary #middlepark by @librarieschangelives

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👍👎 We'd love your feedback!

🔗https://readbooks.com.au/wwr/feedback-26

Warm Winter Read continues until 31 August, but you don't need to wait until then to tell us what you think.

Has the challenge helped you make more time for reading? Discover new authors? Reach your reading goals?

Tell us why you joined, what you've enjoyed so far, and any ideas you have for improving the program in the future.

Your feedback helps us make Warm Winter Read as easy, engaging and rewarding as possible for readers everywhere.

#WarmWinterRead #ReaderFeedback #PublicLibrariesVictoria by @librarieschangelives

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📚 Meet Warm Winter Read Ambassador John Morrissey

We're excited to welcome acclaimed Kalkadoon writer John Morrissey to Port Melbourne Library for a conversation with award-winning author and critic Declan Fry.

John will be discussing his debut novel, Bird Deity, a thought-provoking work of speculative fiction that explores power, colonisation, belonging and what it means to imagine a different future.

A Melbourne writer of Kalkadoon descent, John is the author of the award-winning collection Firelight and was named one of the Sydney Morning Herald's Best Young Novelists in 2024. He's also one of our Warm Winter Read Ambassadors for 2026, making this the perfect opportunity to meet an exciting new Australian author and celebrate reading with us this winter.

Join us for what promises to be a fascinating conversation about books, storytelling and the power of fiction to challenge the way we see the world.

📅 Thursday 23 July
🕕 6.00–7.00 pm
📍 Port Melbourne Library

🎟️ Book your place: https://www.trybooking.com/events/landing/1582962

#WarmWinterRead #JohnMorrissey #BirdDeity #AuthorTalk #LoveLibraries #PublicLibrariesVictoria #AustralianAuthors #IndigenousVoices #WinterReading #LibraryEvents #PortMelbourneLibrary taken in Port Melbourne, Victoria by @librarieschangelives

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3 months ago

Last month we hosted a workshop on the Young Adult Playbook, our collaboration with Public Libraries Victoria, at State Library of Queensland’s Amplify: Young Voices in Libraries event! 🥳📚

We’re incredibly grateful to have partnered with Public Libraries Victoria on this project and to get the opportunity to take it to State Library of Queensland!

We left the Amplify conference with career pivots into libraries in the works. Hope you also feel the love for libraries we felt when working on it! 🫶

Read more about this project on our website, link in bio! 🔗 by @librarieschangelives

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🤔📖Where's your warm winter reading nook?

🔥Cosying up with a book in front of a fire is our favourite place to be in winter.

Warm Winter Reads is one of the great initiatives of @librarieschangelives and Moorabool Libraries.

🎧Do you listen to audio books? Check out our range of audio books this winter.

Visit us at Ballan or Bacchus Marsh and discover the wonders of the 'Borrow Box', 'Libby' and other online apps, which are free to use as members of our libraries.

Join us in sharing the joy of reading in winter 🥶

🔗Not a member yet? It's easy to join online or in person. More information is available at the link in our bio

#WWR26

#librariesofinstagram

#booksandMoor by @librarieschangelives

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