More than 28 children and their parents/carers enjoyed a 1000 Books Before School certificate presentation by Acting Mayor Rob Hooke.
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Everyone enjoyed Glenys Jones' reading of the National Simultaneous Storytime book Alpacas with Maracas. Children had a morning tea of fruit, and adults had a cuppa while participating in the Biggest Morning Tea.
Keep an eye on Library Lines for further events as everyone is welcome at the library. If your children aren't yet members of 1000 Books Before School or 1000 Books After School, you can sign them up the next time you come to the library - there's no start date, and certificates are awarded at the milestones of 50, 100, 250, 500, 750 and 1000 books enjoyed. There's a presentation every couple of months so parents and children can share achievements and network together.
Lots of new books have been added to the library collection, including a good selection by various Australian authors.
Included amongst the titles are The Things We Cannot Say by Kelly Rimmer, which moves from the present to the traumatic days of WWII, and from Australia to Poland as Alice strives to solve a family problem. Karen Brooks has written The Chocolate Maker's Wife, set in England and London in the times of the Great Plague and London's Great Fire.
Closer to home is Blood River by Tony Cavanaugh, a book described as "a relentlessly gripping crime thriller from one of Australia's best crime writers."
If you like losing yourself in epic tales by the likes of Penny Vincenzi and Lesley Pearse, you'll love this one. This one is The Runaway Daughter by Joanna Rees, a novel set in the London of 1926. James Rollins has written his latest thriller Crucible a Sigma Force novel which sees the protagonists on a frantic quest for answers that are connected to mysteries reaching back to the Spanish Inquisition.
See you soon at the library!