To celebrate Children’s Book Council of Australia (CBCA) Book Week, the Library is encouraging staff and students to ‘Read Across the Universe’ in a number of ways.

Each year, the CBCA announce a shortlist of books that have been nominated for an award across five categories. Library staff at the senior campus have set up a display of books from the Older Readers and Younger Readers categories, with book blurbs which students and staff can peruse. Display copies are not for loan, but we have other copies which may be borrowed if something takes someone’s fancy!

In addition, for some Book Week fun, students are invited to select a ‘mystery book’ from our lucky dip shelf. We encourage students to read more widely and so there are ‘mystery books’ wrapped in newspaper which they can then take to the counter to borrow before ripping the paper off to discover what book they’ve just taken out. The student then has two weeks to read their book before writing a short review.

We’ve already had a flood of students coming in to borrow  ‘mystery’ books, and we look forward to many more as the week progresses.

Happy Book Week!

Ms Crystal Choi
Head of Library Services