Library Bytes

Premier's Reading Challenge Celebration

Congratulations to all participants who maintained a positive reading regime to finish the Reading Challenge program.

Our morning tea celebration involved a sharing of ideas for 2019, the presentation of certificates, good company and scrumptious food. The opportunity to share some highlights together was invaluable.

Looking forward to 2019!

Patricia Bernardo

RC coordinator

Your State Library This Summer

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To access ebooks from home, you need to be a State Library member with a Victorian home address. (Terms and conditions of use apply.)

The Library has a huge range of free nonfiction ebooks, which you can either read online or download for up to seven days. Click and go - https://www.slv.vic.gov.au/search-discover/free-journals-databases-ebooks/ebookshelf/ebookshelf-archive

What’s on:

Peter Wille: Out driving

Cost: Free

Date: 1 December 2018 – 1 December 2019

Location: South Rotunda, The Gateway

View photographs of Melbourne’s architectural wonders through the 1950s and 1960s.

Peter Wille, amateur photographer and architectural draftsman, took images that capture experimental design. This exhibition includes the works of architects Robin Boyd, Peter McIntyre, Kevin Borland, and John and Phillis Murphy.

Tips:

* Utilize Audiobooks

* Read to children as much as possible

* Take both readers and reluctant readers to events where they can meet

Authors face to face. “It makes the writing process real for them. It shows them a pathway into writing their own stories.”

Happy Reading

Calling Out To All Readers

Jeff Kinney’s new novel Wimpy Kid: The Meltdown adds to the ‘Wimpy Kid’ series.

His passion is getting kids reading, it drives the way he constructs his novels. He thinks carefully about the amount of text between illustrations so that struggling readers have an island ‘to swim to’.