Pop by the CBL Photo Booth during Book Week. Dress up in the Where's Wally costume and hold the Instagram frame. Snap a photo with our Instax Mini and take home your photo.
Entries close at the end of Book Week for the 2017 CBL Readers' Cup Challenge. Booklists and Entry Forms can be found on the CBL Readers' Cup Libguide.
Students are encouraged to complete the CBL Feedback Survey on library resources and services.
Students are encouraged to enter the CBL Book Week Creative Writing Competition.
Use this image as inspiration and write a piece of creative writing with the opening line "It looked ordinary from the outside."
Entries can be emailed through to rbyrne@riverview.nsw.edu.au by Friday 25th August.
As part of Book Week celebrations the Christopher Brennan Library is participating in a charitable initiative, South Sudan Book Drive. This initiative is in conjunction with Patrick's Stevedores and Brookfield Investments, who aim to send a 20 foot container of books to South Sudan.
The Student Office, along with the CBL will be collecting books - textbooks, children's books, fiction books, information books, . . . . any book that is still in good reading condition will be greatly received.
Students are to use the online catalogue to track the locations of the books in the Scavenger Hunt - the theme is Escape to Everywhere!
Find stamps at each checkpoint and stamp your passport. Once all 12 stamps have been collected, swap your passport for a CHUPA CHUP and a BOOKMARK.
All valid entries go in the draw for a major prize.
Build a Story Quilt
Students from the SIEP unit will listen to a reading of The Patchwork Bike by Maxine Beneba Clake. Students will draw their response to the story on squares of paper which will be placed together to form a patchwork story quilt for display in the library.
Steven Herrick will be holding a Poetry Workshop with Year 10 students during Book Week.
Click of the following by Steven Herrick.
During Book Week Wide Reading classes will begin their reading period with a Book Quiz incorporating this year's theme, Escape to Everywhere.
WINNER Book of the Year
'This is a tale of, among other things, righteous revenge, told in alternating chapters by the two main characters, whose perspectives convey the impact of difficult circumstances on even the most gentle people...Love wins out in this well-constructed world, mapped literally and figuratively by the author.'--Booklist 'A new world of shape-shifters and a time-honored battle between good and evil come alive in Caddy's debut fantasy for teens.'--Kirkus Life in the valley is a peaceful for the community of "waer"--humans who can take the form of a wolf. When a near-dead stranger washes up on the banks of the river she is cared for tenderly. But who is this young woman, and who caused her terrible wounds? Lowell Sencha, a young waer on the verge of manhood, seeks to find out more about the mysterious Lycaea, and her pursuers. The truth is revealed soon enough as the forces of the evil warlord Daemon Leldh sweep into the valley. When Lowell's village, and everything he loves, is destroyed, he and Lycaea must travel to the city of her origins. Their challenge is to gather forces to fight Daeman Leldh. But a terrible secret about Lycaea's past will threaten the new bonds of their friendship. Before Lowell and Lycaea can prevail in summoning the troops, Lycaea must face the trauma of the events that brought her into the warlord's power. And Lowell must discover whether he has the strength to forgive her. If the two young searchers are not able to reconcile the past, the future is in terrible peril. Told in the alternating voices of Lowell and Lycaea,Waeris a powerful fantasy novel that holds the reader tight. Meg Caddy was just twenty-one when she penned this debut.