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July School Holiday Activity @ Brooklyn Library!

WHEN: 11:00 am Tuesday 13 July

Your Favourite Book! - Come dressed up!

What is your favourite book? What does it look like? Do you think you could make a better cover? Well this is your chance! Come along to our holiday programme and we will share some of our favourite books and redesign the covers so everything looks as it does in our imaginations. Come dressed as your favourite book character! - is it Harry Potter? Snow White? Captain Underpants?! ... We'll see you there!

(For Holiday Activities at other libraries, see here!)

Alice in Wonderland books at the library:

See some of the strange and wonderful versions of Alice in Wonderland that we have on our catalogue:

J. Otto Seibold's Alice in pop-up wonderland
by J. Otto Seibold (2003)
A modern and ultra-surreal take on Alice in Wonderland, in pop-up form.

The Annotated Alice: "Alice's Adventures in Wonderland" AND "Through the Looking Glass": the definitive edition
by Lewis Carroll (2001)
Original illustrations by John Tenniel; with an introduction and notes by Martin Gardner.

Through the Looking Glass
by Lewis Carroll (2008); adapted by Kyle Baker
In a graphic-novel adaptation of the sequel to Alice in Wonderland, Alice journeys through a mirror to a strange and wonderful world where curious adventures await her.

Tim Burton's Alice in Wonderland: a Visual Companion
by Martin Salisbury (2010)
(Foreward by Tim Burton). This splendid "Making/Art of" will take readers to the world behind Burton's camera, revealing the secrets of performance-capture technology, the marriage of live-action and CGI technology, and displaying its singular style in a deluxe, artistic format.

Storytime

• Storytime is every Tuesday at Brooklyn Library at 10:30am in the children's area
• Storytime runs for about half an hour, with stories and songs
• Pre-school storytimes are fun and free - there's no charge, and you don't have to book
• Storytime is aimed at pre-school age children (three and four years old) - but younger siblings are always welcome!

Library Spotlight: BookSeekers!

See what some of our current members like about BookSeekers:

So, what is BookSeekers?

BookSeekers is a FREE library book club for 9 to 12 year olds that meets once a month to discuss books and do fun activities and challenges.

What is the idea behind BookSeekers?

BookSeekers encourages young readers to step out and try new genres of books that they wouldn't normally read (but may find out that they like!).

How do they do they achieve this?

Each month they are set the task of reading one book from a different category, eg. fantasy, adventure, graphic novels or history. Then they rate the book and talk about it to the group. The challenge is to have read a book from 10 different genres by the end of the year.

When is BookSeekers held?

BookSeekers is held at Brooklyn Library on the 2nd Tuesday of each month from 4 - 5 pm.

Dates when it will be held in 2010: June 8, July 13, Aug 10, Sep 14, Oct 12, Nov 9, Dec 14.

So how can my son or daughter join?

Come into Brooklyn Library, or one of our other BookSeeker libraries, fill in a joining form and make sure either you, the parent, or a caregiver sign it. You will need to bring your child's library card with you as well.

For more information and a list of other libraries that hold Bookseekers, go here!