Book Week
Book Week in the John Cain Library
This week we are celebrating the Children’s Book Council of Australia Book Week:
- Monday 19 August – Harry Potter Day – NHS Muggles will taste Butter Beer and sample Bertie Bott’s Every Flavour Beans. Test your knowledge on the Harry Potter Quiz for your chance to win a great Harry Potter prize.
- Tuesday 20 August – Join the Book Week Kahoot celebrating the theme of Book Week ‘Reading is My Secret Power’ BYOD.
- Wednesday 21 August – Black Out Poetry session. Using pages of an old book, compose poetry by blacking out redundant text. Winners of the ‘6 Word Review’ competition and Harry Potter quiz announced and prizes awarded.
- Thursday 22 August – The Great Book Swap – all kinds of books will be available to purchase for a gold coin donation. All funds raised go to the Indigenous Literacy Foundation. Library Student Assistants will be there to help staff and students with their selections.
- Friday 23 August – Make a pendant, keyring or fridge magnet using Shrink Art Plastic. Winners of ‘Guess Who's Reading...’ announced.
The Great Book Swap – this Thursday lunchtime in the John Cain Library
On Thursday August 22 at lunchtime students and staff are invited to The Great Book Swap. Good quality second hand books will be made available for purchase for a gold coin donation. Library Student Assistants will be available to help with your selections.
Our target for donations is $1000 and right now with online and FB contributions we are sitting at $899. Can you help us reach our target?
Financial donations can be made at our fundraising page at this link:
https://go.greatbookswap.org.au/EventDetail/7011J000001Ruij/John-Cain-Library-Great-Book-Swap
All monies raised will aid the Indigenous Literacy Foundation.
Make and Take Mondays in the Library
August 26 – Origami
Learn the Japanese art of paper folding with Year 7 Origami master, Ben.
September 2 – Whatcha Mean? What’s a Zine?
Zine making workshop and launch of the John Cain Library Zine Collection.
A zine is a handmade magazine or mini-comic about anything you can imagine: favourite bands, personal stories, subcultures or collections. They contain diary entries, rants, interviews and stories. Zines are not a new idea: they’ve been around for years under various names (chapbooks, flyers, pamphlets). People with independent ideas have been getting their word out since before there were printing presses.
Make a mini zine or read a zine from the library’s new zine collection.
KNITS FOR NATURE
The ‘LIBRARY KNITTING CIRCLE’ is held every Monday lunchtime in the library. Come along and learn the basics or extend and share your knitting skills.
We have partnered with the Penguin Foundation to knit pure wool jumpers for penguins affected by oil spills.
Knitted penguin jumpers play an important role in saving little penguins affected by oil pollution. A patch of oil the size of a thumb nail can kill a little penguin. Oiled penguins often die from exposure and starvation. Oil separates and mats feathers, allowing water to get in which makes a penguin very cold, heavy and less able to successfully hunt for food.
When oiled penguins are admitted to the Wildlife Clinic at Phillip Island Nature Parks a knitted jumper may be temporarily placed on the penguins to prevent them from preening and swallowing the toxic oil before they are washed and the oil removed by staff.
438 little penguins were affected by the last major oil spill near Phillip Island in 2001. Of those, 96% were successfully saved with the help of penguin jumpers, rehabilitated at the Wildlife Clinic and released back into the wild.
Come along and help knit for these little critters. All materials are provided.