八月份，Dundas 阅读小组针对质疑这个主题，讨论和交流了他们的阅读。
2012 Children’s Book of the Year Award Winners
The Children’s Book Council of Australia has announced this year’s award winners.
Discussion notes from Literacy Reading Group August 2012
The National Year of Reading Theme for August is Question, so this month we read and discussed two articles relating this theme.
Article 1: Profit and Loss– Angela Mollard in Sunday magazine from the Sunday Telegraph Feb 26-Mar 3 2012 p3
In this Article “Angela counts the cost of putting work ahead of family” an interesting article about trying to juggle the commitments of life, and working out what’s important in the long run.
Article 2: Questions that make you think from Buzzle.com
http://www.buzzle.com/articles/questions-that-make-you-think.html
A very funny article with many interesting questions to make you think.
Fiona McCallum – Author of the month
You are invited to Parramatta Library on Monday 10th September 2012 1pm – 2pm to hear Fiona McCallum talk about her latest book, Wattle Creek, one of the Get Reading books you can’t put down.
Fiona writes “heart-warming journey of self-discovery stories”. Her first novel Paycheque was released on April 1 2011 and became an ‘instant bestseller’. Her second novel Nowhere Else (released on Dec 1 2011) was an even bigger hit, outselling Paycheque by early January 2012. Fiona’s third novel, Wattle Creek, was released April 1 2012.
The bestselling Australian author of Paycheque and Nowhere Else returns with a story of dreams, expectations and endurance. Continue reading
1st Wednesday book club – The idea of home by John Hughes
The idea of home is the title for NSW voted by many people for National Year of Reading.
When the First Wednesday book club meet this month they discussed “The idea of home by John Hughes”.
In ‘The Idea of Home’ John Hughes writes about growing up in the HunterValley coal-mining town of Cessnock, in a household dominated by memories of the Ukraine, which his mother and grandparents were forced to flee during the Second World War. (excerpt from NoveList Plus) Continue reading