Last week, as Australia celebrated Book Week, ABC asked its Facebook followers a deceptively simple question: “What did [the library] mean to you growing up?” The question was prompted by something much less celebratory. As the ABC put it, some teachers say that “school libraries are quietly disappearing across the country.” I responded: The StateContinue reading “The Library that made me”
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Reading is Magic
And it’s a wrap on another Children’s Book Week. My social media feeds won’t be half as colourful without the creative interpretations of book titles by colleagues, family and friends. I have loved the Children’s Book Council of Australia’s special week for as long as I can remember – certainly back to primary school atContinue reading “Reading is Magic”
Bowerbirds!
In May I was invited to be a guest reader at the National Simultaneous Story (NSS) time event held at Kingston Library which is our ‘local’. This was a first! Over the years I’ve participated in many an NSS as audience member, crowd control, and the odd non-speaking, acting role, but being the star attraction!Continue reading “Bowerbirds!”
What’s on your bedside table?
I had a phone call late last week from an ABC journalist I knew from my Orange days. She was looking for someone to speak on ‘the books on my bedside table’ for drive time radio. She too has left town and so wasn’t aware that I was no longer a Mainlander (to use theContinue reading “What’s on your bedside table?”
Jan Richards Consulting 