The Friends of the Library present their annual collection viewing event. This year’s focus is on children’s literature – from gumnut babies and magic puddings to Mr Chicken and green sheep.
This special evening will start with an introduction from well-known author Stephanie Owen Reeder, who has been fossicking around in the treasure trove that is the Library’s children’s literature collection for over 30 years. As Stephanie has discovered, the Library’s comprehensive children’s literature collections include everything from manuscripts, ephemera, bookplates and original artwork, to games, postcards, maps and collectors’ editions of classic Australian children’s books. After the talk, you will have the opportunity to view many of these treasures in a display curated specially for Friends.
Tickets cost $40 for Friends members and $45 for non-members. Please make a booking via the National Library website.
Join the Library for delicious refreshments, conversation and happy recollections of childhood reading.
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About Stephanie Owen Reeder
Dr Stephanie Owen Reeder has worked as a teacher, a librarian, a book editor, a Hansard editor at Federal Parliament and an academic. She is the award-winning author of over 25 books for children, including historical novels such as Lennie the Legend, winner of the CBCA Book of the Year Award, and Amazing Grace, winner of the NSW Premier’s History Award.
She has also created five environmental picture books, including Australia’s Wild Weird Wonderful Weather and Peculiar Parents. Stephanie is an ambassador for both the ACT Chief Minister’s Reading Challenge and the 80th Anniversary of the Children’s Book Council of Australia, and she won the CBCA Laurie Copping Award for Distinguished Service to Children’s Literature in the ACT in 2019.
You can purchase Stephanie’s books online at the Library Bookshop.
Image credit: Board game titled Race to the gold diggings of Australia, 1855, nla.obj-139615708
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