Just So Stories

Random Reviews and Ramblings from Redcliffe



  • 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

  • League of Llamas – Aleesah Darlison

    Visit Aleesah’s webpage here   Penguin March 2020 RRP: $9.99   Well… Aleesah’s new series is bound to be a hit with junior/middle primary readers with galloping (I’m not sure llamas actually gallop but still…) plots, high octane humour and loads of adventure. I knew that James Bond is currently having a contemporised make over but Read more

  • Year 7 Library Intro activity

    2020Chase Welcome to the Chase Two different versions (for two different schools/libraries). Attached are both copies – you would need to adjust depending on your own library of course. But the students found it a lot of fun – there was some quite fierce competition – and lolly prizes which always help! Just be prepared Read more

  • The Long Distance  Playlist – Tara Eglington

    Harper Collins Australia January 2020 ISBN: 9781460755211 ISBN 10: 1460755219 Imprint: HarperCollins – AU RRP: $19.99 Well if you told me I would absolutely fall in love with a YA (primarily) romantic novel I would no doubt have scoffed loudly. However, this is just delightful and so so much more than just romance. Eglington explores contemporary culture, family Read more