Category Archives: Recommended Reading

Children’s Book Week 2018 – Winners

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Book Week is the longest running children’s festival in Australia, and was created in 1945 by the Children’s Book Council of Australia, a not for profit organization that strives to promote the best in Australian literature for kids and teens. The theme for this year was Find your Treasure.

The winners for 2018 are:
Older Readers Book of the Year (ages 13-18) – Take Three Girls by Cath Crowley et al.
Younger Readers Book of the Year (ages 8-12) – How to Bee by Bren MacDibble
Early Childhood Book of the Year (ages 0-7) – Rodney Looses It! by M.G. Bauer
Picture Book of the Year – A Walk in the Bush by Gwyn Perkins
Eve Pownall Book of the Year  – Do Not Lick this Book by I. Ben-Barak

Crichton Award for New Illustrators – Tintinnabula by M. Lanagan, illustrated by R. Cai

See winners and honour books of 2018 here.

All these wonderful books are available from Parramatta City Libraries. Borrow now!

Living a Low Tox Life with Alexx Stuart

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Discover how you can live a low tox life with educator, activist, change agent and author Alexx Stuart at our author talk and book signing event. Learn how to make:

  • Coffee body scrub
  • Natural air freshener
  • Low tox dry shampoo

Meet the author at Epping Community Centre on Saturday 22 September 2018 at 2.30pm, to learn more and to book click here.

Australia’s 50 Favourite Kids’ Books

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Wondering how to get your child to read more? Better Reading have released their Top 50 reads of 2018 for kids as voted for by the Australian public. These books are adored by many children so why not suggest them to you reluctunt reader? Some of them are available in Audio format so you can even listen to them on the way to school and soccer practice!

The Top 10 are featured below and include some old favourites and some new releases. See Full List  – the Library has the majority of  titles available for reservation now.

Top 10 Kid’s Books:

Harry Potter Series
by JK Rowling

Faraway Tree Series by
Enid Blyton

Alice Miranda Series by Jacqueline harvey

Matilda
by Roald Dahl

Kensy & Max: Breaking News by Jacqueline Harvey

BFG
by Roald Dahl

Charlotte’s Web
by EB White

Anne of Green Gables
by LM Montgomery

Wonder
by RJ Palacio

Nevermoor: The Trials of Morrigan Crow
by Jessica Townsend

Top 10 Librarians Choice – August 2018

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Another wonderful selection of newly published books for August, as chosen by Library staff around Australia. A mixture of fantasy, fiction, true crime, a memoir an more. Why not finish off Winter by reading one this month?

Jane Doe And The Cradle Of All Worlds – Jeremy Lachlan
Librarians’ Choice Favourite

The spooky atmosphere of Stranger Things meets Northern Lights in this dark and magical fantasy adventure. Fifteen years ago, Jane Doe and her father arrived on the steps of the Manor, the entrance to a dangerous labyrinth connecting the island of Bluehaven to many other worlds. That was the same night the earthquakes started.

Jane and her silent, troubled father John have been feared and despised ever since. When the strongest quake yet strikes and John disappears back into the Manor, Jane embarks on a perilous adventure to find her father and save her world from destruction.

Scrublands –  Chris Hammer
The Biographer’s Lover – Ruby J. Murray
A Superior Spectre – Angela Meyer
The Botanist’s Daughter – Kayte Nunn
Trace – Rachel Brown
The Ones You Trust – Caroline Overington
I Had Such Friends – Meg Gatland-Veness
Dressing The Dearloves – Kelly Doust
Always Another Country: A Memoir Of Exile And Home – Sisonke Msimang

2018 Man Booker Prize longlist

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The Man Booker Prize is the leading literary award in the English speaking world. The prize is awarded to what is, in the opinion of the judges, the best novel of the year written in English and published in the UK and Ireland. This year also marks the 50th anniversary of the Man Booker Prize, which has recognised many of the defining novels of the last half century and continues to celebrate the finest fiction.

The Man Booker Prize 2018 Longlist has been announced and for the first time it includes a graphic novel (Sabrina by N. Drnaso).

Click on the titles below to reserve!

The Shortlist titles will be announced on the 20th September and the winner will be chosen on the 16th of October 2018.

Snap by Belinda Bauer (Bantam Press)
Milkman by Anna Burns (Faber & Faber)
Sabrina by Nick Drnaso (Granta Books)
Washington Black by Esi Edugyan (Serpent’s Tail)
In Our Mad and Furious City by Guy Gunaratne (Tinder Press)
Everything Under by Daisy Johnson (Jonathan Cape)
The Water Cure by Sophie Mackintosh (Hamish Hamilton)
Warlight by Michael Ondaatje (Jonathan Cape)
The Overstory by Richard Powers (William Heinemann)
The Long Take by Robin Robertson (Picador)
Normal People by Sally Rooney (Faber & Faber)
From a Low and Quiet Sea by Donal Ryan (Doubleday Ireland)