News and events for our library community
Come to your Shire Libraries this week and grab a free Christmas card craft pack as part of our school holiday activities program.
Both Augusta and Margaret River Libraries have packs to give away each week, check our website amrlibraries.com at the beginning of each week to find out which pack is available to collect.
For information on library Christmas hours please click here
Happy Holidays!
Join our hour long Lego club session to take on new challenges with all the Lego provided. Best suited to children over 5 years and bookings are essential. Phone the library now to reserve your child’s place.
Margaret River Library
Phone 9780 5600 for bookings
If you cannot make it to a library Lego Club, check out www.amrlibraries.com for a virtual Lego Club challenge to complete from home – you could win a prize!
Visit either Margaret River or Augusta Library for a FREE craft activity pack to take home. At the beginning of each week a new pack will be available, check out our website amrlibraries.com to find out which pack is ready for collection.
Packs include:
● Greeting cards ● 2021 Calendars ● Masks ● Kites ● Cups ● Badges
Craft packs include inspiration for your creation but you will need to provide scissors, glue and pens at home.
If you are in year one at school, the summer holidays is the perfect time to visit the library, choose some books and get some Reading Rabbit stamps on your card.
Over the summer holidays, bonus prizes will be given for a book review, based on a book you have read recently.
For all those in year two and over at school, Book Bandicoots rewards kids for reading, especially over the summer holidays!
As a summer holiday treat we are giving away bonus prizes for extra book reviews completed, just see library staff for more details.
Reading Rabbits and Book Bandicoots are an initiative of the Shire of Augusta Margaret River Libraries and kindly supported by Rotary Club of Margaret River and the Margaret River Bookshop
Held on the last Monday of each month, Book Chat Club is a place for ten to fourteen year olds to chat about their favourite books and reading. Bring a book for the book swap, take on the next monthly reading challenge and go in the draw to win a prize.
Margaret River Library
Phone Rachael on 9780 5602 for bookings.
Join us for Toddler Tales this Thursday 10th December, 10.30am at Augusta Library. This will be the last session for the year, then Toddler Tales continues on the second Thursday of each month during school term.
Toddler Tales is aimed at children 18 to 36 months old and involves a story, rhymes, songs, craft and morning tea.
Bookings are required as spaces are limited, phone Rachael on 9780 5602 to reserve your child’s place
Join us for Toddler Tales this Thursday 12th November, 10.30am at Augusta Library. Toddler Tales continues on the second Thursday of each month during school term.
Toddler Tales is aimed at children 18 to 36 months old and involves a story, rhymes, songs, craft and morning tea.
Bookings are required as spaces are limited, phone Claire Preston on 9780 5600 to reserve your child’s place
Held on the last Monday of each month, Book Chat Club is a place for ten to fourteen year olds to chat about their favourite books and reading.
Bookings are required, please contact Rachael on 9780 5602 or email rdrummond@amrshire.wa.gov.au as spaces are limited.
Happy Reading!
There is something magical about picture books, and this list is an extra-special one.
These are the Picture Books (0 to 18 age group) shortlisted for Children Books Council of Australia 2020, please note that some picture books may be only suitable for older readers.
Please click on the image to place a hold.
Please click here ⇓ to find out the winners of the 2020 CBCA Book of the Year Awards
This week we are taking time to celebrate fantastic children’s literature published in Australia and the wonderful authors and illustrators who create the books.
Children aged 2 to 5 and their caregivers are invited to join us at Margaret River Library on Tuesday 20th October at 10.30am for a special Children’s Book Week dress up storytime. We will read one of the shortlisted Children’s Book of the Year titles and kids can dress up as a character from their favourite book. Call the library on 9780 5600 if you have any queries, no bookings required.
Visit your library to check out the display of notable and winning titles for Children’s Book of the Year and collect a curious creature book mark and colouring in sheet, to get crafty at home.
Happy Children’s Book Week everyone!
Children’s Book Week is almost upon us, let us use this opportunity to get familiar with some of Australia’s best writers for young readers, and understand why they have been shortlisted by the Children’s Book Council of Australia.
Today we are featuring the shortlisted titles for Early Childhood (0 to 6 years of age).
Please click on the image to place a hold on the item.
Winners will be revealed at 12 noon AEDT on Friday 16 October.
The shortlisted titles for young readers for this years Children’s Book of the year 2020 award is suitable for children 7 to 12.
The stories range from fantastic worlds accessible from paintings on the wall and dystopian landscapes, to sensitive topics like family struggles and disabilities.
This week’s selection deserve your attention !
Join us at the local Margaret River Library to hear Becca Bolton from Discover Deadly – our local Reptile Centre, speak about her work and give participants the chance to interact with reptiles that live at Discover Deadly.
Becca is also a qualified snake catcher and she will give advice on staying safe around snakes, along with some interesting facts about these fascinating creatures.
This activity is best suited to children over 5 years old and bookings are essential as there are limited spaces.
Margaret River Library Tuesday 29 September
Phone 9780 5600 for bookings
Join our hour long Lego club session to take on new challenges with all the Lego provided. Best suited to children over 5 years and bookings are essential.
Phone the library now to reserve your child’s place.
Augusta Library
Phone 9780 5600 for bookings
Join Tamara from the Undalup Association on the yarning mat for a special storytime; Songlines of Boodja (country) with activities and craft.
Suitable for ages 4-12 years old and bookings are essential to reserve your child’s place.
Margaret River Library
Phone 9780 5600 for bookings
Grab your FREE Scribblers Festival Fuelling Creativity Workbook brimming with inspiration and tips on how a healthy body can support your most creative mind! Hear from a line up of creative stars that take you behind the scenes of their creative process in the corresponding Fuelling Creativity Video Series found on the Scribblers Festival Fuelling Creativity website.
Regular Baby Rhyme Time, Storytime and Toddler Tales sessions take a break over school holidays. Sessions resume during school term commencing Monday 12 October.
Fearn Avenue, Margaret River WA 6285
Phone: (08) 9780 5600
Email: amrlibrary@amrshire.wa.gov.au