Help us celebrate Children's Book Week

Published on 27 July 2022

20 - 26 August

Book Week is coming! The theme for this year is 'Dreaming with eyes open...' and we invite you to join us for a range of events, special storytimes and a library bookmark designing competition. 

Each year since 1945 the CBCA has brought children and books together across Australia through CBCA Book Week. During this time schools and public libraries spend one glorious week celebrating books and Australian children's authors and illustrators.

Design a Stonnington Library Bookmark

1 - 26 August
All libraries

Celebrate Children's Book Week by designing your own bookmark for our libraries. The theme for CBCA Book Week 2022 is 'Dreaming with eyes open...'. Use the theme of the week to inspire your bookmark design. Entries close at 11.59pm on 26 August 2022. Enter your design.

Special Storytimes

Tuesday 23 August,10.30 - 11am
Malvern Library
Award-winning Australian author Corrine Fenton will join us to read some of her own books.

Wednesday 24 August, 10.30 - 11am
Toorak/South Yarra Library
Special guest reader Zoe Bell will read some of the shortlisted titles for the CBCA Book of the Year 2022.

Book Week inspired craft: Make a Clay Bee and Decorated Birdfeeder

Sunday 28 August, 2.30 - 3.30pm
Malvern Library

Join our friends from See Make Play for an awesome craft session where you will make (and take home) air dry clay bees and a decorated bird feeder, inspired by the shortlisted picture book Just One Bee by Margrete Lamond and Anthony Bertini (illustrated by Christopher Nielsen). Book your spot.