Library News

Welcome back to the best term of the year! 

It is this term that we celebrate Children’s Book Week. Every day is a celebration of loving books at APS, but this term we get to dress up for a day and share our love of books with our special friends/grandparents. A wee clue about my costume is that I’m partial to a spot of Croquet.

Book Week is from the 16th August – 23rd August. Our day to don a costume for our special visitors/grandparents will be held on Wednesday the 20th August. Our amazing Library Action Team will be distributing some divine invitations to all classes over the next week. Your child/children can fill these out and give them to their special person/grandparents to stick on their fridge. Dressing up is optional for our friends.

On the 29th August, Meerkat Productions are presenting a performance of Freya Blackwood’s book A Garden of Broken Things for our Prep-Year 4 students. 

The Garden of Broken Things is a masterfully composed, metaphorical tale that helps children understand both the value of the old and the young. It is told age-appropriately in tender words and watercolour, pencil and pastel.

Freya Blackwood is one of our most accomplished and highly regarded picture book creators. Two of her books are shortlisted in the 2025 CBCA Picture Book of the Year category:  The Garden of Broken Things, and Afloat, illustrated by Freya Blackwood, with text by Kirli Saunders. Our library has many copies of these books available for borrowing.

Our Premiers’ Reading Challenge is still underway and concludes in September. Everyone is still logging their reading and submitting some fabulous book reviews. Keep it up!

Happy reading folks!

Lizzy