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Thursday, October 22, 2020

Children's Book Week

Being celebrated around Australia this week is  Children's Book Week. My involvement with the event goes back to 1967 when I was a Library Assistant at Waverley Library. I remember Book Week Parades held in the Pavilion at Bondi Beach. When I moved on to be Children's Librarian at Randwick Library we held these events in the Randwick Town Hall. My memories of these times are foggy but I remember colouring in and poster competitions, book quizzes, kids dressed up as book characters, readings of prize-winning books and events featuring favourite authors and storytellers.

I have no pictorial evidence of these early events but in digging into my photo archive I found a few photos of the times in the 1980s,1990s and early 2000s when I was part of the Children's Book Week celebrations.


Book Week visit from a neighbouring school - 1988

Book fun with Library Monitors - 1995

Story telling - 1999

Illustrator, Ron Brooks - 2001

Library Display - 2001

Author Visit - Undated

Library Staff - 2003

Prize-winning books - 2004
Isobelle Carmody book signing - 2005 

Book Fair - 2006

Library Staff - 2008




2 comments:

  1. Fun times and fond memories, often involved a lot of extra work but always worth it in the end when the students, no matter their age, appreciated the effort.

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  2. Great to have photos to back up so many memories. I’m sure there are many more memories of you sharing your love of books.

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