Award winning author to speak at Carey’s Book Week
18 Aug 2008
Displays that celebrate current events like the Olympics, or focus on current issues, like a recent display about sustainability, have become a feature of the Mellor Library at Carey’s Kew campus.
So it is no surprise to find the Head of the Mellor Library Resource Centre, Anne Whisken, and her colleagues in the library and Middle School English Department are preparing a display recognising Book Week, a festival that is now 63 years old, celebrating books and Australian authors and illustrators. The Children’s Book Council of Australia (CBCA) facilitates Book Week, this year running from Saturday 16 August to Friday 22 August.
Carey’s special guest during Book Week is author Anthony Eaton, whose books have twice won the Western Australian Premier’s Award. Anthony writes for children, young adults and adults, and will speak with groups of Middle School students on Wednesday 21 August.
The theme for this year’s festival is ‘Fuel Your Mind’ and activities suggested by the CBCA include exercises for the mind and how to look after it with diet, adequate sleep and plenty of water to drink. Parents and staff in the Carey community have not been forgotten, with Senior School parents being invited to contribute titles of books that have influenced them as children and as adults, and Middle School staff invited to morning tea in the Mellor Library during the week.
Book Week at Carey
Mellor Library and Resource Centre
349 Barkers Road, Kew 3101
Guest Speaker: Anthony Eaton,
Wednesday 21 August
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