If you are not yet a member of our Gympie Town Library, follow this link for on-line membership. The Library team visit our school during Book Week and always welcome our class excursions to the Town Library.
https://gympie.spydus.com/cgi-bin/spydus.exe/MSGTRN/WPAC/JOIN
Once you have your membership number you can then access e-Book loans as well as the Story Box Library.
https://www.gympie.qld.gov.au/web/library/kids-ebooks-and-eresources
There is also a wealth of resources to support parents, teachers and students, so sit down with a cuppa and take some time to see what's on offer.
https://www.gympie.qld.gov.au/web/library/kids-youth
https://gympie.spydus.com/cgi-bin/spydus.exe/MSGTRN/WPAC/JOIN
Once you have your membership number you can then access e-Book loans as well as the Story Box Library.
https://www.gympie.qld.gov.au/web/library/kids-ebooks-and-eresources
There is also a wealth of resources to support parents, teachers and students, so sit down with a cuppa and take some time to see what's on offer.
https://www.gympie.qld.gov.au/web/library/kids-youth
www.childrenslaureate.org.au/about-the-aclfwww.childrenslaureate.org.au/useful-links
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You can celebrate our extraordinary Australian Book News and Reviews from the CBCA, there's also interviews, some suggestions and meet the CBCA Reviewers.
readingtime.com.au/category/reviews/
readingtime.com.au/category/reviews/
"Children’s Books Daily is a place where you can be a part of a community and dive deep into a well-organised library of reviews, advice from experts in the field, reading resources, literary-themed gifts and lists of themed books.
Curated by award-winning teacher librarian and author Megan Daley, Children’s Books Daily is a guide for parents and a resource for educators."
Curated by award-winning teacher librarian and author Megan Daley, Children’s Books Daily is a guide for parents and a resource for educators."
PRIMARY & SECONDARY
About Loyal Books - New Name?
Books Should Be Free has changed its name to Loyal Books to show how important books are to our lives. You'll always find the best collection of completely free public domain audiobooks and ebooks at Loyal Books. We also offer best sellers for those who want the newest books but mostly you'll find an overwhelming selection of free books to enjoy.
Uses
If you don't know what book you want to listen to next, it can be tedious trolling through hundreds of lines of text results looking for a fun book. Loyal Books puts the fun back into browsing for audio books. For those who listen to audio books because reading does not come easily to them, the last thing these people would want to do is read through pages of text to find something to listen to. LoyalBooks provides a primarily visual browsing experience so you don't have to read tedious amounts to find listening material. The LoyalBooks.com website is also screen reader friendly making its resources accessible to people with vision disabilities.
Free
All audio books on LoyalBooks.com are in the public domain. This means that no one holds a copyright on these books and therefore anyone including LoyalBooks.com is free to distribute them. Enjoy these free audio books and use the share button on LoyalBooks.com to tell your friends about all these great public domain audio books.
Source
Books that have entered the public domain are digitized and recorded by volunteers that coordinate themselves through a variety of websites. The majority of public domain books, however, are digitized by Gutenberg.org and recorded by Librivox.org. Loyal Books draws on these public domain sources to deliver free audio books to you in an engaging and fun way. Enjoy the browsing experience on our website and be sure to bookmark us and return when youre ready for you're next audio book!
Contact
If you have a free audiobook or eBook that you would like to submit then please use this form.
Questions or comments? We'd be glad to know what you think. Feel free to get in touch with us at [email protected]. Also visit our company site Twist Idea.
www.loyalbooks.com/
About Loyal Books - New Name?
Books Should Be Free has changed its name to Loyal Books to show how important books are to our lives. You'll always find the best collection of completely free public domain audiobooks and ebooks at Loyal Books. We also offer best sellers for those who want the newest books but mostly you'll find an overwhelming selection of free books to enjoy.
Uses
If you don't know what book you want to listen to next, it can be tedious trolling through hundreds of lines of text results looking for a fun book. Loyal Books puts the fun back into browsing for audio books. For those who listen to audio books because reading does not come easily to them, the last thing these people would want to do is read through pages of text to find something to listen to. LoyalBooks provides a primarily visual browsing experience so you don't have to read tedious amounts to find listening material. The LoyalBooks.com website is also screen reader friendly making its resources accessible to people with vision disabilities.
Free
All audio books on LoyalBooks.com are in the public domain. This means that no one holds a copyright on these books and therefore anyone including LoyalBooks.com is free to distribute them. Enjoy these free audio books and use the share button on LoyalBooks.com to tell your friends about all these great public domain audio books.
Source
Books that have entered the public domain are digitized and recorded by volunteers that coordinate themselves through a variety of websites. The majority of public domain books, however, are digitized by Gutenberg.org and recorded by Librivox.org. Loyal Books draws on these public domain sources to deliver free audio books to you in an engaging and fun way. Enjoy the browsing experience on our website and be sure to bookmark us and return when youre ready for you're next audio book!
Contact
If you have a free audiobook or eBook that you would like to submit then please use this form.
Questions or comments? We'd be glad to know what you think. Feel free to get in touch with us at [email protected]. Also visit our company site Twist Idea.
www.loyalbooks.com/
RECOMMENDATION FOR YEAR 10 STUDENTS
"Everything is Alive is an interview show in which all the subjects are inanimate objects. In each episode, a different thing tells us its life story, and everything it says is true."
www.everythingisalive.com/
"Everything is Alive is an interview show in which all the subjects are inanimate objects. In each episode, a different thing tells us its life story, and everything it says is true."
www.everythingisalive.com/
YEAR 11 & 12 STUDENTS SEARCH OLDER LITERARY eBOOKS
Looking for something to read? Project Gutenberg eBooks are mostly older literary works. Most were published before 1924, with some published in the decades after. Use one of the Search methods on this page, or try using the Bookshelves to browse by genre, age group, and topic. www.gutenberg.org/
Kids' Book Review is a 100% voluntary children’s literature and book review site that supports and features authors, illustrators and publishers Australia-wide and internationally. http://www.kids-bookreview.com/p/teach.html
You can also find a comprehensive list of websites to visit through the 'Friends of KBR' tab. http://www.kids-bookreview.com/p/friends-of-kbr.html
Kids' Book Review is a 100% voluntary children’s literature and book review site that supports and features authors, illustrators and publishers Australia-wide and internationally. http://www.kids-bookreview.com/p/teach.html
You can also find a comprehensive list of websites to visit through the 'Friends of KBR' tab. http://www.kids-bookreview.com/p/friends-of-kbr.html
Magabala Books is Australia’s leading Indigenous publishing house. Aboriginal owned and led, they celebrate and nurture the talent and diversity of Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander voices.
If you are interested in viewing the range of books available to support our Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander curriculum studies Magabala's a great place to start. There are even free teacher resources to accompany many.
https://www.magabala.com/pages/education
'Sand Pythons' - Artwork by Jimmy Pike https://www.magabala.com/pages/jiljikarraji-warna
If you are interested in viewing the range of books available to support our Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander curriculum studies Magabala's a great place to start. There are even free teacher resources to accompany many.
https://www.magabala.com/pages/education
'Sand Pythons' - Artwork by Jimmy Pike https://www.magabala.com/pages/jiljikarraji-warna
Some of our favourite authors have wonderful websites to visit where they have extra fun stuff... like colouring in. Take a visit to meet Alison Lester, Laura Bunting, Anna Walker many of our students will be familiar with their books which are on heavy borrowing rotation here at Victory Library.
https://alisonlester.com/ laurabunting.com.au/ www.annawalker.com.au/
There's so many to visit and I could list create a long list but if students have a favourite author/illustrator its worthwhile visiting their websites to learn what inspires them, other projects they may be working on, how they got started and what suggestions they have to encourage you! www.andygriffiths.com.au/ www.anhdo.com.au/author/
https://alisonlester.com/ laurabunting.com.au/ www.annawalker.com.au/
There's so many to visit and I could list create a long list but if students have a favourite author/illustrator its worthwhile visiting their websites to learn what inspires them, other projects they may be working on, how they got started and what suggestions they have to encourage you! www.andygriffiths.com.au/ www.anhdo.com.au/author/
If you love listening to Podcasts and are trying to keep up with new kids' books, or listening to Bookish Q&A you could try the happy book childrens book podcast.
taniamccartney.blogspot.com/2019/01/the-happy-book-childrens-book-podcast.html
taniamccartney.blogspot.com/2019/01/the-happy-book-childrens-book-podcast.html