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Random Reviews and Ramblings from Redcliffe

  • Willy Wonka’s Everlasting Book of Fun – Roald Dahl

    Penguin Australia February 2020 ISBN: 9780241428139 Imprint: Puffin RRP: $14.99 What a legacy Roald Dahl left to us!  His books still remain some of the most heavily borrowed in the library, they are a staple of read-alouds in the classroom and the fun just keeps on coming to one generation after another. While the long holidays might be Read more

  • Women Artists A to Z – Melanie LaBarge. Illustrated by Caroline Corrigan

    Penguin Random House Australia February 2020 ISBN 9783760896357 Imprint: Puffin RRP $24.99 No matter if you are looking for something biographical and ‘easy’ or as an introduction to outstanding and diverse artists or to supplement your Mighty Girl collection this is a very welcome addition. These are the women who, in each of their disciplines, Read more

  • Freefall:  Kensy & Max #5 –– Jacqueline Harvey

    Published: 3 March 2020 ISBN: 9780143796985 Imprint: Puffin RRP: $16.99   Hold onto your seats for another major adrenalin rush in this new top-notch adventure of twins Kensy and Max, young agents-in-training! In this latest episode there is a continuing thread from the previous book in which a thoroughly evil villain was unmasked. The outwardly charming Dash Chalmers has Read more

  • Student Volunteers…

    Student librarians, library trainees, call them what you will… I call them Library Ninjas and thought I might as well add this program since it’s also available elsewhere. Like anything and everything else, it is a starting point as your library, it’s facilities and your needs will be different to my own. Library ninjas have Read more

  • Library Lovers Day 2020

    In my new library we’re giving LLD a big rev – a bit of a twist on blind date books with just a quote or tag line on the heart doily glued to the paper bag cover- I put the display together this morning and my keen beans have already snaffled three books (plenty in Read more

  • Another Orientation activity

    Thank you so much to the wonderful Jill Duffield, now happily retired, for sharing this activity. While obviously some of this would be out-dated by now and certainly does not reflect individual libraries, I can already see ways to take this structure and transform it for my ‘beefier’ follow-up sessions with Year 7s. Answers Race Read more

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